Sentence examples for speaking tests and from inspiring English sources

This type of activity is not only safe, but fun and beneficial – as after eight weeks speaking only French/German/Spanish, you're almost guaranteed an A in speaking tests and you'll probably go up a grade or two overall".

A recent study by Nakatsuhara et al. (2017) found differences between audio and video rating of performance in the IELTS speaking test and suggested there are benefits for using the video mode for both rating and standardisation.

For example, the scores of the listening test and reading test are subsumed under a factor of receptive skills whereas those of the speaking test and writing test are subsumed under a factor of productive skills, but the two factors of receptive skills and productive skills are unrelated and, thus, not correlated with each other (Fig. 2).

They revealed that at the time of speaking tests, their mood changed and they were not able to talk as well as no-exam days.

One thing participants in the FGI seemed to be in agreement on was that the listening and speaking tests were the easy parts of the assessment regime.

Jamieson, Wang, and Church (2013) compared the use of both in-house and commercial placement speaking tests in terms of curricular coverage, statistical distributions, and practicality.

While it is beyond the scope of this study, future research should consider the centrality of both elements in pair activities and how the operational definitions for collaboration and task completion can be most useful in a scoring scale, and in speaking tests in general.

The co-construction of discourse during speaking tests may best explain this proposal.

Recent improvements in computer technology have promoted computer delivery of speaking tests.

The learners expressed that speaking tests are the most anxiety raising activities every semester.

Furthermore, the inability to anchor speaking tests to a singular theoretical model has resulted in the IELTS speaking sub-test development drawing upon numerous models to inform test design and content, and thereby creating a test-specific model.