![]() ![]() You want your students to be at ease when they speak to you or other English speakers. You can have excellent grammar and still fail to be fluent. Fluency does not improve at the same rate as other language skills. How comfortable are they when they speak? How easily do the words come out? Are there great pauses and gaps in the student’s speaking? If there are then your student is struggling with fluency. This may be the easiest quality to judge in your students’ speaking. Encourage your students to listen as they speak and have appropriate responses to others in the conversation.įluency is basically being able to speak reasonably quickly without needing to stop and pause a lot. Great oratory skills will not get anyone very far if he or she cannot listen to other people and respond appropriately. ![]() A student with effective interaction skills will be able to answer questions and follow along with a conversation happening around him. Are they able to understand and answer questions? Can they answer you when you ask them questions? Do they give appropriate responses in a conversation? All these are elements of interaction and are necessary for clear and effective communication in English. Interaction is their ability to interact with others during communicative tasks. Take the average level among the criteria and you have an objective grade with suggestions for areas in which your student can improve.īeing able to say what you mean with a foreign language is one thing, being able to interact with others is another. Then, as you evaluate each student, determine at which level he or she is performing. For example, the most straightforward way to label the boxes in the rubric would be, “ Meets expectations high, meets expectations low, slightly underperforms, does not meet expectations.” The more rubrics you make, the more detailed you can be in your descriptions. For each criterion, define what level of ability a student would need to exhibit on each of the four leves. These columns will represent the potential skill levels of your students. If this is your first rubric, four is the easiest to start with. ![]() Then create an even number of columns along the top of the page. Simply choose the criteria on which you will grade students and list them down the left side of the page. If you have never created a rubric before, it’s really quite easy. Most teachers will be familiar with the concept of grading with a rubric, a table with different criteria and a grading scale. ![]()
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