IELTS Speaking Feedback Sheet

This article is part of the Teach IELTS series at IELTS Academic, an online provider of skills training for IELTS and English as a foreign language.

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Are you looking for an easier way to calculate IELTS Speaking scores?

The assessment criteria for IELTS Speaking are publicly available, but the official document is not exactly classroom-friendly. Not only is the language filled with jargon, the complexity is so great that explaining it all in class would drastically reduce any speaking practice time available to students.

IELTS Academic has produced a simplified version of the IELTS Speaking scoring rubric that is faithful to the official version but designed to be more accessible for students. This IELTS Speaking Feedback Sheet organises the IELTS Speaking assessment criteria into 12 basic attributes. Try using it as a tool for pair practice in your next IELTS Speaking lesson.

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Download this IELTS Speaking Feedback Sheet as a PDF for classroom use.

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Fluency and Coherence

Does your partner:

• Avoid silence or hesitation?
• Speak at length on each topic?
• Use words to connect ideas?

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Lexical Resource

Does your partner:

• Use a wide range of vocabulary?
• Use idioms and collocation?
• Paraphrase?

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Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Does your partner:

• Speak in complex sentences?
• Use a variety of grammatical forms?
• Avoid grammatical mistakes?

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Pronunciation

Does your partner:

• Pronounce words accurately?
• Join sounds together?
• Vary intonation?

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Scoring:  Students can give their partner a score of 0-3 for each skill where 0=Not at all, 1=A little, 2=Sometimes, and 3=Always. Dividing the total by four will produce a rough estimate of the student’s overall IELTS Speaking score.

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This article is part of the Teach IELTS series at IELTS Academic, an online provider of skills training for IELTS and English as a foreign language.

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