Speaking Test Part 2: Sean
Vocabulary
This candidate has sufficient vocabulary to participate in a long turn of extended speech, and is
able to use some less usual words such as prohibit and ignite. At this stage further use of these
words in context is required to improve fluent and comfortable use of vocabulary.
Grammar
This candidate displays accuracy with simple sentences and attempts complex structures, but
these frequently cause disfluency. Some basic errors are made, such as they makes.
Pronunciation
This candidate's pronunciation can be clearly understood, and his phonemes are mostly accurately produced.
Disfluency and slow speech affect his rhythm and intonation, and chunking of phrases is not apparent.
Fluency, coherence and cohesion
Some ideas are organised well, but fluency is the candidate's weakest area. The candidate relies
on slow speech, with frequent and sometimes long pauses to think in mid-sentence, and uses
repetition of words or whole sentences when speaking. The candidate needs to speak with effort
as fluency is not well developed enough to speak comfortably.
Overall
- What did the candidate do well? The candidate:
- Was able to speak for an extended time
- Used a good range of usual and less usual vocabulary
- Produced acceptably pronounced phonemes.
- What does the candidate need to improve?
- fluency: the candidate's speech is slow, with frequent pauses and hesitation
- lack of fluency, which affects rhythm and intonation
- use of complex grammatical structures is not yet fluent.
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