This document discusses assessing speaking ability and describes different types and skills of speaking. It outlines five basic types of speaking assessment tasks: imitative, intensive, responsive, interactive, and extensive. It also describes microskills like pronunciation and macroskills like social and pragmatic aspects of speaking. The document provides examples of assessment tasks for each type of speaking, such as word repetition for imitative speaking and interviews for interactive speaking. It aims to design speaking assessments that evaluate different speaking skills.