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ELIREG: Oral Skills Rating Rubric
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Rater's Name
Student's First Name
Student's Last Name
Student's UDID
ELI Session
ELI Session
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Year
Year
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Fluency/Discourse Level
Level 1. Can communicate in very limited range within predictable areas of immediate need, having little ability to form complete sentences beyond memorized utterances. Cannot yet be said to possess survival English.
Level 2. Can satisfy basic survival needs, express feelings, and ask/answer simple questions. Has little strategic capacity with language. Little if any communicative ability in content areas.
Level 3. Has facility in nearly all survival communication and some social conversation and, to a very limited extent, in content areas within own field of expertise. Possesses some flexibility and spontaneity in discourse. Can use language strategically in some situations, but little ability to imply, infer, or discuss causal relationships.
Level 4. Can satisfy most social demands and can converse on known topics, where general vocabulary is used but with occasional hesitation, repetition. More idiomatic discourse, with some ability to imply or infer. Poor control and ability in extended, content, and decontextualized conversations.
Level 5. Can initiate and sustain conversation in known and some unknown situations, satisfying nearly all social demands. Fluency suffers in content or decontextualized areas due to vocabulary limitations. Some facility in discussing causal relationships
Level 6. Extremely competent in social situations, possessing a fairly large general vocabulary. Some control over slang, reductions, and colloquial expressions. Limited technical vocabulary. Difficulty expressing abstract thoughts and demonstrating critical thinking through oral discourse
Listening Proficiency Level
Level 1. Comprehends utterances at word and phrase level only where context aids understanding. Understanding characterized by long pauses for assimilation and frequent requests for repetition. Requires radically adapted NS speech to partly comprehend even simple of statements.
Level 2. Can understand basic commands, statements, and questions surrounding basic survival situations, but still requires significant NS speech adaptation. Comprehends most sounds and many word endings.
Level 3. Can understand topics well beyond survival needs, including brief discourse on extensively previewed topics in known content areas. Cannot reliably understand complex word order patterns and verb inflections. Can comprehend many reductions, but little slang and idiomatic speech. Requires less adapted speech and repetition.
Level 4. Understands with little need for repetition or adapted speech in known context. Adequate understanding of general vocabulary; limited understanding of low frequency vocabulary. Ready for intensive development of academic listening skills.
Level 5. Can process many suprasegmental aspects of speech. Can take notes if lecturer speaks moderately and clearly, and is well organized. Approximately 25% comprehension of a 5‐10 minute unadapted and unrepeated lecture in familiar content area.
Level 6. Comprehension generally excellent in social situations. Can understand most of the suprasegmental nuances of speech. Uneven comprehension of content area lectures and discussions. Able to comprehend 40% in a sustained unadapted or unrepeated lecture of 5‐10 minutes if topic and vocabulary are previewed.
Oral Intelligibility Level
Level 1. Frequently unintelligible, even for ESL Teachers: pronunciation and suprasegmental patterns strongly influenced by first language. Can differentiate many phonemes when produced in isolation, but produces frequent errors when combining phonemes in words or phrases.
Level 2. Pronunciation occasionally unintelligible to the trained ESL teacher, and usually to the typical native speaker. Produces most phonemes in isolation, though continues to make errors combining them in words/ phrases. Very limited capacity to use reductions and linking; other suprasegmentals influenced by first language.
Level 3. Despite errors, almost always intelligible to ESL teacher, frequently unintelligible to the native speaker. Often over articulates and struggles with phonemic transpositions (e.g. l/r, b/v, s/th). Some control of rhythm and vowel reductions. Some facility with intonation and stress to convey emphasis, emotion, confusion.
Level 4. Some consonant and vowel phonemic errors due to language background, but only occasionally unintelligible to native speaker. Good control of basic intonation patterns and word stress, though needs work on linking, reduction, and sentence focus stress.
Level 5. Idiosyncratic phonemic problems requiring remedial instruction. Generally comprehensible to native though some repetition required. Facility with standard stress and intonation patterns, able to use reductions, linking, and sentence/ focus stress in known situations. Suprasegmentals may still break down in unknown situations.
Level 6. Idiosyncratic phonemic errors. Intelligible suprasegmental control, though not always native like. Comprehensible and intelligible, though occasionally unintelligible when speaking in complex sentences.
Oral Grammar Level
Without regard to current level, check all of the following that describe your student and keep a
running total
for this entire category.
Level 1. No real control over even basic grammatical structures or word order; uses simple verb forms, often incorrectly.
Level 2: Uses simple tenses with some success.
Level 2: Uses basic question patterns with some success.
Level 2: Uses simple syntax and oral grammatical forms.
Level 2: Uses high frequency prepositions of place.
Level 2: Uses modifiers and articles, though on very limited basis.
Level 3: Uses simple tenses with facility.
Level 3: Uses auxiliaries with some success.
Level 3: Uses continuous tenses with some success.
Level 3: Uses simple conditionals with some success.
Level 3: Uses word order for simple sentences and questions with some facility.
Level 3: Uses complete sentences frequently, though not regularly.
Level 3: Uses prepositions of place, position, and direction.
Level 4: Uses auxiliaries, modals with some success, though occasional errors in inflectional endings.
Level 4: Uses perfect tenses with limited success.
Level 4: Uses passive voice with some success.
Level 4: Uses prepositions of time and manner.
Level 4: Uses plurals, suffixes, and agreement with some success.
Level 4: Uses infinitives and participles with some success.
Level 5: Uses passive, perfect tenses with frequent, though uneven success.
Level 5: Uses very simple embedding and cohesion.
Level 5: Uses infinitive, participial, and gerund phrases with some success.
Level 5: Uses coordination of independent clauses with some success.
Level 6: Uses self monitoring system with some success.
Level 6: Uses subjunctive with some facility.
Level 6: Uses subordination of adverbial, adjectival, and noun clauses with some facility.
Level 6: Uses complex sentences and embedding with some success.
Level 6: Uses grammatically correct and complex sentences with some facility, though with idiosyncratic errors.
Oral Grammar - Total Items Checked
1-2 items checked = Level 1
3-5 items checked = Level 2
6-11 items checked = Level 3
12-16 items checked = Level 4
17-20 items checked = Level 5
21-23 items checked = Level 6
Recommended Level
Recommended Level (add all levels above and divide by 4)
Recommended Level (add all levels above and divide by 4)
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
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