F Rubric Flashcards
What are the 4 parameters for scoring Fluency?
1) Answer Length and Quality
2) Pronunciation and Accent
3) Pausing and Tempo
4) Intonation and Stress
Fluency 1 - Answer Length and Quality
manage very short, isolated, mainly pre-packaged utterances
Fluency 2 - Answer Length and Quality
make themselves understood in very short utterances or extremely slowly
Fluency 3 - Answer Length and Quality
Can keep going comprehensibly 2-4 simple sentences at a time in short bursts
Fluency 4 - Answer Length and Quality
responses averaging around 4-6 simple sentences
Fluency 5 - Answer Length and Quality
speak at great length consistently throughout the conversation while demonstrating almost effortless speech production
Fluency 6 - Answer Length and Quality
express themselves spontaneously and at length consistently throughout the conversation
Fluency 1 - Pronunciation and Accent
may severely compromise comprehensibility
Fluency 2 - Pronunciation and Accent
may hinder comprehensibility
Noticeable effort in articulating
Fluency 3 - Pronunciation and Accent
generally intelligible; however, they may occasionally be required to repeat themselves to be understood
Fluency 4- Pronunciation and Accent
clear, intelligible pronunciation, even if a foreign accent is sometimes evident and occasional mispronunciations occur
Fluency 5 - Pronunciation and Accent
errors are almost non-existent and accent is clear
Fluency 6 - Pronunciation and Accent
natural colloquial flow and native-like accent
Fluency 1 - Pausing and Tempo
Much pausing to search for expressions, to articulate less familiar words, and to repair communication
Tempo is choppy
Fluency 2 - Pausing and Tempo
Pauses, false starts, and reformulation are very evident
Unbearable haltingness and slowness
Fluency 3 - Pausing and Tempo
Pausing for grammatical and lexical planning and repair is very evident, especially in longer stretches of free production
Choppy when speaking longer and isn’t fluid but understand
Fluency 4 - Pausing and Tempo
sometimes be hesitant as they search for common patterns and expressions associated with the topics
Tempo is fairly even
Fluency 5 - Pausing and Tempo
Only a conceptually difficult subject can hinder a natural, smooth flow of language
Tempo is natural and approaching native like qualities
Fluency 6 - Pausing and Tempo
Can avoid or backtrack around any difficulties in expressing their meaning so smoothly that the listener is hardly aware of any trouble in expressing themselves
Tempo is native
Fluency 1 - Intonation and Stress
none
Fluency 2 - Intonation and Stress
none
Fluency 3 - Intonation and Stress
Rarely uses intonation and stress
Fluency 4 - Intonation and Stress
Can use stress and intonation however this is not always done correctly
Fluency 5 - Intonation and Stress
use intonation and stress, as well as natural pauses in sentence breaks (parsing) to add inflections to their longer trains of thought
Fluency 6 - Intonation and Stress
Can vary intonation and place sentence stress correctly in order to express finer shades of meaning
List the 2 Barriers to go from Fluency 1 to Fluency 2
- Only provides 1 or 2 words per response.
2. Pronunciation issues that make speaker extremely difficult to understand.
List the 3 Barriers to go from Fluency 2 to Fluency 3
- Thick accent or pronunciation that makes it nearly impossible to understand what the student is trying to express throughout the interview
- Unbearably slow, drawn-out pace of speech that has loses meaningful syntactical ties between words
- Pauses and silence outweigh period of speech
List the 3 Barrier to go from Fluency 3 to Fluency 4
- Cannot consistently respond with more than 2-3 simple sentences at a time to open-ended questions.
- Presence of persistent pronunciation errors that consistently hinder comprehension.
- Accent too difficult to pierce through, hindering comprehension.
List the 4 Barriers to go from Fluency 4 to Fluency 5
- Not able to speak at length (at least 4-6 simple sentence structures).
- Regular occurrences of pronunciation mistakes (though they don’t necessarily hinder comprehension on a systematic basis) or thick accent peppering longer trains of thought, that hinders easy comprehension.
- Odd intonation/inflection even when speaking rapidly or at length.
- Persistent choppiness in speech production that is uncomfortable to listen to in a longer contribution (i.e. persistent through the whole interview).
List the 3 Barrier to go from Fluency 5 to Fluency 6
- Pronunciation, intonation, or accent that does not sound native or near-native.
- Stumbles, hesitations, or pauses that affect the natural flow of language.
- Unnatural parsing of sentences.
Speakers have great difficulty communicating meaning due to using isolated words and expression with long, frequent pauses.
Fluency 1
Speakers spend more time searching for words than actually speaking
Fluency 1
Choppiness is very evident along with severe pronunciation problems
Fluency 1
Pronunciation of a very limited repertoire of learnt words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of this group.
Fluency 1
Fluency is impaired by pronunciation issues that affect understanding.
Fluency 2
Speakers can either talk clearly in an incredible slow, forced way, or they speak more quickly but their pronunciation or accent is so garbled or thick that it prevents consistent meaningful comprehension on the listener’s part.
Fluency 2
Relies on very short utterances to make themselves understood.
Fluency 2
Speakers have a lot of pauses, false starts, and reformulations and stumbling.
Fluency 2
Noticeable effort in articulating words and phrases
Fluency 2
Unbearable haltingness and slowness in planning (or attempting) grammatically and lexically correct speech.
Fluency 2
Speakers usually have pronunciation issues or an accent which may hinder comprehensibilty
Fluency 3
Speakers may show choppiness in pace and frequent pauses, especially when attempting to speak in longer stretches.
Fluency 3
May sometimes speak in short burst interspersed by pauses
Fluency 3
Some pronunciation mistakes or accent issues that may require the student to occasionally repeat themselves.
Fluency 3
Choppiness in pace when speaking for longer stretches
Fluency 3
Evidently and frequently pausing or hesitating to look for the right words or grammar patterns. (grammatical or lexical planning)
Fluency 3
Frequent pausing to correct words or grammar patterns
Fluency 3
Speech may not convey a sense of fluidity but is comprehensible over long stretches.
Fluency 3
Speakers have a fairly good control on their pace and tempo of their speech, as well as the length at which they can speak.
Fluency 4
Pronunciation and accent or less problematic at this point and speech production begins to feel more natural.
Fluency 4
Can give lengthier responses and start to participate in a give and take of conversational Q&A that feels somewhat natural and not a strain for the interviewer or listener
Fluency 4
Sometimes a speaker has the pace or tempo more characteristic of a fluency 5 speaker but is held back because of what?
and why?
Accent is very thick.
Instead of placing them in Fluency 3 for accent, speakers are kept at a Fluency 4 for their ability to speak at length, which is a higher level of accomplishment in Fluency.
Speaks at a fairly even tempo, in which halting mid-sentence or every few words is rare.
Fluency 4
May have some hesitancies in searching for patterns and expressions but have few noticeably long pauses when they do so.
Fluency 4
Can respond quickly and spontaneously on simpler, familiar topics using common grammatical patterns.
Fluency 4
Speakers are characterized by natural flow, excellent accent/pronunciation, and the presence of good intonation and stress
Fluency 5
Speakers at this level only show choppiness or hesitations due to struggling with thought rather than struggles with speech production.
Fluency 5
Effortlessly employing a mixture of simple and complex language forms in order to respond to questions at length.
Fluency 5
Definitely comfortable with expressing longer trains of thought on more complex topics.
Fluency 5
Proper stress/inflections on words and proper parsing of sentences.
Fluency 5
What does parsing of sentences mean?
- examine each word and clause in order to work out their grammatical type
Speakers speak at a spontaneous pace with a native-like accent.
Fluency 6
There are no pronunciation, accent, or intonation issues
Fluency 6
Less likely to pause much in expressing themselves
Fluency 6
Able to parse sentences in natural breaks between words and clauses.
Fluency 6
Able to use circumlocution easily to talk around a topic they may not have precise vocabulary or precise opinions on difficult subjects that they lack knowledge of, in such a way that it is unnoticed by those in the conversation
Fluency 6
