1. Analytic Oral Language Scoring Rubric12
Student name: Date:
Age: Teacher(s):
Grade: First language or languages other than English:
Length of time in Canada:
Length of time at school:
FOCUS Emerging Beginning Developing Expanding Proficient Fluent
SPEAKING - begins to name concrete objects - begins to initiate - can sustain a conversation - can participate in social and - communicates competently in
- begins to communicate personal conversation - begins to communicate in classroom class discussions social and class settings
and survival needs - retells a story or settings - errors do not interfere with
experience meaning
- asks and responds to
simple questions
FLUENCY - repeats words - speaks in single-word - speaks hesitantly, - speaks with occasional hesitation - speaks with near-native - speaks fluently
utterances rephrasing and fluency
and short patterns searching for words (hesitations do not interfere
with
communication
STRUCTURE - uses predominantly - uses some sentence variety - uses a variety of structures - uses a variety of grammatical
present tense verbs - inconsistently applies rules of with structures correctly and easily
- demonstrates errors of grammar (e.g., runned, mans, not occasional grammatical errors
omission (leaves words never, more higher), especially
out, endings off) with verbs
VOCABULARY - uses functional vocabulary - uses limited vocabulary - uses adequate vocabulary - - uses varied vocabulary - uses extensive vocabulary -
some errors in word usage may lag behind native-
speaking
peers
LISTENING - understands little or - understands words, phrases - - understands simple - understands classroom discussions - understands most spoken - understands class discussion
no English requires repetition sentences in sustained with repetition, rephrasing, language, including class without difficulty
conversation - clarification discussion
requires repetition