I just got this private message from a forum member in relation to the recent online discussion I hosted for iBT speaking:
hi Jason,
I have read your post of the edited conversation that took place on the day of disscusion session which you hosted online last wednesday. Unfortunately i couldn't participate in the disscussion as i was busy. But the conversation which you posted was very enlightning.
If you allow me i have a question: where can i read more about "delivary, topoic development and language use" as i have no idea what these issues mean. I would be very grateful if you could give me a link to read more about these techniques.
thanks Jason for your help. Have a nice day.
Well, the things referred to here are actually delivery, topic development and language use, but it occured to me that I haven't put a direct post up here in the forum linking to these detailed evaluation rubrics (though I think I've referenced them in various threads around the forum).
Time to fix that!
Evaluation rubrics for Independent speaking tasks: http://www.onlinenglish.net/iBT/Speaking_rubric_Independent_English.html
Evaluation rubrics for Integrated speaking tasks: http://www.onlinenglish.net/iBT/Speaking_rubric_Integrated_English.html
There is detailed information there about delivery, language use and topic development according to scoring bands, taken directly from the official ETS documents.
Hope that helps...
~ Jason
