Assessment Criteria

Language B SL Interactive Oral Activities

Criterion 0 1 2 3 4 5
Command of spoken Command of spoken Command of spoken Command of spoken Command of spoken
language is very language is limited. language is fairly language is good. language is very
Criterion A: Productive skills limited. good. good.
 The production of  The production of
How successfully does the student  The production of language is hesitant  The production of language is mostly  The production of
use the language in speech? language is very and not always language is fluent. language is fluent.
hesitant and hardly comprehensible. comprehensible and
The work does  Language is  Language is
• How fluent and clear is the comprehensible. fluent at times.
not reach a  Language is often generally correct, correct, varied and
student’s speech?
standard  Language is often incorrect and/or  Language is varied and articulate; errors do
described by the incorrect and/or limited. sometimes correct, articulate. not interfere with
• How accurate and varied is the
descriptors. very limited. with some idiomatic message.
language?  Intonation expressions.  Intonation
 Intonation sometimes contributes to  Intonation
• How much does the student’s interferes seriously interferes with  Intonation does not communication. enhances
intonation aid communication? with communication. interfere seriously communication.
communication. with
communication.
Simple ideas are Simple ideas are Simple ideas are Simple ideas are Complex ideas are
Criterion B: Interactive and
understood with understood with understood fairly understood well and understood well and
receptive skills
great difficulty and difficulty and well and interaction interaction is good. interaction is very
To what extent does the student interaction is very interaction is is adequate. good.
 Simple ideas and
understand and demonstrate an limited. limited.
 Simple ideas and opinions are  Both simple and
ability to interact in a conversation? The work does  Simple ideas and  Simple ideas and opinions are presented clearly complex ideas and
not reach a opinions are opinions are generally presented and coherently; opinions are
• How well can the student standard
express ideas and opinions?
presented presented with clearly. there is some generally presented
described by the incoherently. difficulty, difficulty with clearly, coherently
descriptors. sometimes  The conversation complex ideas. and effectively.
• How well can the student  The conversation is flows coherently at
incoherently.
maintain a conversation? disjointed. times but with  The conversation  The conversation
 The conversation some lapses. generally flows flows coherently.
does not flow coherently.
coherently.

IB Diploma Language B guide for first examination in 2013