Review/Ammend SLO

ESL 183 L/S SLO # 1

As explained on the Home page, the ESL Listening/Speaking instructors have developed a speaking rubric for each of the L/S levels.  We plan to devise a speaking assessment task using Voicethread for the spring 2012 semester. This will enable us to all have access to each student's presentation and provide a venue for comments that will be available to all instructors. We will use the rubric seen below to assess whether or not the student has met the minimum speaking standard for the ESL 183 L/S level.


The student will:
Produce sentences and chunks of discourse in speech of 250-350 words in assigned topics with a particular focus on verb tenses, correct word form choice, intermediate level sentence patterns, and subordination and coordination in sentence combining.

183LS Oral Presentation Level Outcomes Rubric (draft)

	Exceptional	Good	Passing
topic and content	appropriate topic; covers topic in depth	appropriate topic; covers key points and some detailed information	appropriate topic;  covers key points & details,  some of which may not be appropriate
organization of information	cohesive throughout	cohesive throughout, but some missing/ misused cohesive elements	use of cohesive elements, may have some misused and/or repeated cohesive elements
vocabulary	variety in use of basic and content vocabulary throughout; few errors in collocations and expressions	some variety in use of basic and content vocabulary; word form and choice errors do not affect comprehension	variety in  use of basic and content vocabulary with some word form and word choice errors due to increasing complexity of topics
grammar	grammatical errors occur but are minor and do not distract from ideas or impede comprehension	grammatical errors in simple and complex structures rarely  impede comprehension	few grammatical errors in simple structures; errors in complex structures may sometimes impede comprehension
comprehensibility (speed, tone, stress, pronunciation)	accent has little or no influence on comprehensibility throughout	comprehensible throughout with occasional errors of stress and pronunciation; appropriate tone and speed	comprehensible throughout; may be  too slow/fast, too quiet, and/or have repetitive errors in stress and/or pronunciation