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THE 3rd INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMPETITION FOR MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL STUDENTS
INDIVIDUAL CONTEST
The Criteria for Speaking Performance Assessment
(The second round of the Olympiad)
| POINTS & CRITERIA | 3 POINTS The speaker: |
2 POINTS The speaker: |
1 POINT The speaker: |
| 1. CONTENT | -Handles the topic with ease and confidence; | -Handles the topic with relative ease and confidence although expressing some hesitation; | -Has difficulties handling the topic; |
| -Gives good reasons; | -Needs to expand on ideas or details a bit more; | -Fails to support his/her opinion with good reasons; | |
| -Expresses opinion and supports facts in connected, paragraph length discourse; | -Struggles with expressing opinion and supporting facts in connected, paragraph length discourse; | -Expresses opinion and supports facts in a string of sentences and NOT paragraph length discourse; | |
| 2. LANGUAGE | -Speaks with sufficient accuracy, clarity, and precision to convey their intended message without misrepresentation or confusion; | -Speaks with enough accuracy, clarity, and precision to convey their intended message. Occasional misrepresentation or confusion is present; | -Speech lacks accuracy, clarity, and precision. The conveyed message is misrepresented and confusing; |
| -Demonstrates the ability to use accurately the major time frames of past, present, and future; | -Demonstrates the ability to use the major time frames of past, present and future with relative accuracy; | -Does not demonstrate control over the major time frames: past, present, and future; | |
| -Uses fairly extensive vocabulary; | - Attempts to use fairly extensive vocabulary, but is not consistent in these attempts; | - Vocabulary significantly lacks in extensiveness; | |
| 3. PRONUNCIATION | -Is easily understood by native speakers unaccustomed to talking with language learners. | - Is relatively easily understood by native speakers unaccustomed to talking with language learners. | - Understood, with some repetition, by speakers, accustomed to dealing with non-native speakers. |