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Rubric for Assessing and Tracking Language Proficiency Level in the Speaking Domain
(Teachers Record the Date at Which the Indicated Behavior is Observed)

STAGES OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: Monitoring for Results
Speaking

Student:_________________________________Class:___________Date:____________________
Directions: Based on the student’s interactions with you and others, insert the date that best
describes when the student has hit the benchmark.

This assessment needs to be done quarterly for each of the four strands: Listening, Speaking,
Reading, and Writing. Each quarter, please date performance indicators that typify the student’s
English acquisition in each strand. Feel free to date more than one indicator as appropriate.

Beginning Intermediate Advanced

Student demonstrates little or Student’s speech demonstrates Student can communicate
no functional communicative a range of common words, effectively in most daily social and
ability in English. some low-frequency vocabulary school situations.
though they may avoid topics
with unfamiliar vocabulary.

Pronunciation significantly Student occasionally expresses Grammar and pronunciation errors
impedes communication. original ideas with limited still arise but rarely impede
grammatical structure. communication.

Student frequently needs Student begins to communicate Speech is reasonably fluent, and
assistance and is often on familiar topics of personal student is usually easily understood
misunderstood. relevance. by native English speakers.

Student is beginning to Use of academic vocabulary Student can actively and effectively
describe situations using a may be characterized by engage in extended discussions in
variety of short sentences. inappropriate word choice and most social and academic
awkward phrasing. situations.

Student can ask and answer Grammar and pronunciation Student is easily understood by
simple questions and respond errors are relatively frequent but native speakers of English.
to simple statements. do not impede communication.

Student is beginning to Student demonstrates control Student demonstrates mastery of
demonstrate some control of over basic and many complex almost all grammatical structures.
basic grammar. grammatical structures and has
a growing inventory of common
idiomatic language.

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