IELTS Speaking Test Grading: Fluency, Vocab, Grammar & Pronunciation | IELTS Speaking Evaluation

If you’re looking for some information about the IELTS speaking test grading criteria, then you’re in the right place. We’re going to give you the rundown on the four categories that are evaluated, including Fluency & Coherence, Lexical Resources (Vocabulary), Grammatical Range & Accuracy, and Pronunciation. Find out how to get a higher band score on the IELTS speaking test by knowing how you are graded. ------- Other ESL videos that you should watch! • IELTS speaking exam tips: Get a higher band score for IELTS Speaking : https://youtu.be/FWsuz4G2XWQ • Watch @FastrackIELTS video IELTS Reading Tips and Tricks | How I got a band 8 : https://youtu.be/w_tIn3BGGPM ------ Want to find more tips on how to improve your IELTS speaking score and improve your vocabulary? Check out: https://amzn.to/3oQnTeQ https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithja... #esl #ielts #teachingenglishwithjackie ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ Full blog post: https://eslspeaking.org/ielts-speaking-test-grading-evaluation/ -------------------------------------------------------- Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 0:26 General vs academic 0:50 Band 1-9 1:56 Fluency and coherence 2:55 Lexical resources 3:47 Grammar 5:06 Pronunciation 5:41 Conclusion Transcript for IELTS speaking tips: Hey everybody this is Jackie from esleaking.org. So I'm going to talk about IELTS speaking test evaluation. How do you get your grade on the IELTS speaking exam? I know it's a bit of a mystery, you just check your results and you get a band nine, you get a band six, you get a band two, whatever, but how do you actually get that score and how can you get a better score? All right so first of all I'll talk about the general IELTS exam versus the academic IELTS exam. For the speaking test it's exactly the same for both people: general or academic so don't worry about that at all. On the IELTS speaking section, you can get band 1, which is the lowest to band 9, which is the highest. Band one is basically you don't say anything you say zero words or "hello" and then you stop talking that's how you get a band one. Band nine is basically you are a native English speaker. The good news is that you don't really need to get a band nine in most cases for things like immigration or getting into a university or basically for anything usually a five, six, seven or eight is all you need. So there are four categories that you're graded on: the first one is fluency and coherence. Fluency is how fast you're speaking, if you pause before a sentence it's fine it means you're thinking about what you're going to say. However, if you pause before every word it means you're thinking about the words to say. You don't actually know enough vocabulary because you have to stop and think before every word, so don't worry about pauses before you say a sentence. It means you're just thinking about something but once you start speaking in your sentence just keep going and try to go for no pauses. The next one: lexical resources. That's a fancy way to say vocabulary. So you want to use precise accurate vocabulary to describe something that you're talking about if you use it. Watch like, many words like stuff, things, that kind of thing, you won't do well on this section. You want to use precise language and if you want to get a band 7 or above you'll also need to use things like idioms, expressions, phrasal verbs, "get up", "sit down", that kind of thing. You need to use that more. Kind of, I don't know, what would you say? The next thing is grammatical range and accuracy. So your grammar, to score well on this part of the exam you basically need to use simple grammar perfectly. If you're making lots of simple mistakes with things like a subject-verb agreement like "there are many people" or "there are many people" simple mistakes like that you actually won't do well on this, so you need to use simple grammar perfectly but then you also need to use more complicated grammar for example relative clauses or conditionals. Finally is pronunciation. So this is the simplest one. Are you easy to understand? Yes or no. If the answer is "yes" you will do well, if the examiner is like "what did they say?", "I don't understand" or "pardon me?", "I didn't understand" you won't do well on this. So speak clearly, speak at a medium pace. You don't need to speak super quickly, don't speak very very slowly, try to speak at a normal medium pace and yeah that's about it! So those are the four ways that you're graded for the IELTS speaking exam. Tags: IELTS exam, exam, english exam, english tes