Speaking Task Rubric
Speaking Task Rubric
CATEGORY 5 points - Excellent 4 points - Good 3-2 points - Fair 1-0 points - Poor
Depicts smooth and fluid speech; few to no Depicts smooth and fluid speech; few Depicts speech quite hesitant, some Depicts speech slow and exceedingly
1. Fluency hesitations; no attemps to search for hesitations; a slight search for words; sentences are left uncompleted; volume hesitant; difficult to perceive continuity in
words; volume is excellent. inaudible word or two. very soft; reads most of the time. sentences; too inaudible to evaluate.
Shows a full understanding of the topic. Shows a good understanding of the topic. Shows a good understanding of parts of Does not seem to understand the topic
2. Comprehension Stays on topic all of the time. Answers Stays on topic most of the time. Answers the topic. Stays on topic some of the time. very well. It was hard to tell what the topic
audience questions correctly. questions. Tries to answer questions. was. Answers no questions.
Uses vocabulary appropriate for the Uses vocabulary related to the topic; but Uses vocabulary related to the topic but Uses basic vocabulary, which rarely is
3. Vocabulary audience and related to the topic. Includes forgets to include vocabulary learned in shows being dependent on a script from related to the topic or to what was seen in
vocabolary learned in class. class. which reads most of the time. class.
Speaks clearly and distinctly all the time, Speaks clearly and distinctly all the time, Speaks clearly and distinctly most of the Often mumbles or can not be understood;
5. Pronunciation and mispronounces one or no words. but mispronounces two words. Volume is time. Mispronounces some words. Volume mispronounces several words. Volume too
Volume is loud enough. loud enough. is loud enough. soft to be heard.
Uses visual aid that shows considerable Uses visual aid to help make the Uses visual aid that shows too much
Uses no visual aid to help make the
6. Visual aid work/creativity and which makes the presentation clearer, but does not show information on, which does not help the
presentation clearer.
presentation better. information analysis/considerable work. presenter; instead, just reads from it.
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