Oral Rubric

Overall Response

Fluency

Vocabulary

Grammar

A

Demonstrates Superiority

Creative, extensive, comprehensible to native speaker.

Spoke easily with no hesitation. Spoke well beyond min. time required.

Broad command of vocab. and idiomatic Spanish, many new words.

Strong Control of Spanish, proficient in grammar & syntax, few significant errors.

B

Demonstrates Competence

Appropriate – comparable to native speaker.

Some hesitation, spoke beyond min. time required

Appropriate use of idioms and vocabulary.

Good control of grammar, few errors, some awkwardness.

C

Suggests Competence

Appropriate response – comparable to native speaker accustomed to foreigners.

Frequent Hesitations, just meets min. time required.

Some apt. vocabulary. Some new words used.

Control of simple grammar, use of more complex with errors.

D

Suggests Incompetence

Partially appropriate- difficult to understand.

Halting, starts and stops, below min time required.

Limited use of vocabulary, repetitive, interpretation forced.

Little control of grammar.

F

Demonstrates

Incompetence

Inappropriate response.

Spoke only a few words, well below min. time required.

Little or no sense of vocabulary and idioms.

Almost total lack of grammatical structure.