This rubric provides criteria for assessing a student's speaking skills in five areas: pronunciation, delivery and attitude, content, fluency, and grammar. Points are awarded on a scale from 1 to 4 in each area based on the number of errors or level of confidence. Additional criteria in vocabulary assess a student's use of preferences, qualifiers, connectors, and redundancy. The total possible score is 24 points.

1. Rubric for Assessing Speaking
Student’s Name:___________________________________________________ Date:______________ Score:_________/24 MARK:__________________
Very Good (4) Good (3) Average (2) Poor (1) SCORE
Pronunciation The student presents a
clear pronunciation that
helps comprehension.
Very few pronunciation
mistakes are made (1-3
mistakes)
The student presents a
clear pronunciation that
helps comprehension.
Some pronunciation
mistakes are made (4-6
mistakes)
The student presents a
pronunciation that
sometimes interferes
with comprehension.
Regularly makes
pronunciation mistakes
(7-10 mistakes)
The student presents
unclear pronunciation.
He/she makes too many
pronunciation mistakes
that interfere with
comprehension. (12 or
more mistakes)
Delivery and
Attitude
The student delivers the
whole message in a
confident way. He/she
uses facial expressions
and gestures to enrich
the message most of the
time.
The student delivers
most of the message in
a confident way. He/she
sometimes uses facial
expressions and
gestures to enrich the
message.
The student delivers the
message in an uncertain
way. He/she uses facial
expressions and
gestures very few times
to enrich the message.
The student delivers the
message with no
confidence. He/she does
not use neither facial
expressions nor
gestures to enrich the
message.
Content All the ideas the student
presents, regarding
his/her opinion, are
supported by additional
information or
explanations.
Most of the ideas that
the student presents are
supported by additional
information or
explanations.
Some ideas that the
student presents are
supported by additional
information or
explanations.
The ideas regarding the
opinion of the student
are not supported by
additional information
or explanations.
Fluency The student presents no
hesitation and he/she
does not need to search
for words.
The student presents
some hesitation and
he/she rarely has to
search for words.
(1 or 2 times)
The student hesitates
frequently and he/she
often has to search for
words.
(3 or 4 times)
The student is extremely
hesitant. He/she has to
search for words most
of the time (more than 5
times)
Grammar The student presents
very few grammatical
mistakes. (1-3 mistakes)
The student presents
some grammatical
mistakes.
(4-6 mistakes)
The student regularly
presents grammatical
mistakes.
(7-9 mistakes)
The student makes a lot
of grammatical
mistakes.
(10 or more mistakes)

2. Checklist for assessing the student’s use of Vocabulary:
TOTAL SCORE: _________/24
Does the student... (1 point each) YES NO
1 Expresses Preferences regarding
his/her opinion?
2 Use Qualifying Adjectives?
3 Use connectors reviewed in class?
4 Avoid Redundancy?