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Testing skills? How to test Speaking skills? What are the frameworks which supports to test the language skills?

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 Hello, my fellow readers,  This week I came up with another part of the ELT blog series. Today I am going to share my perspectives on how to test speaking skills. I shared my perspectives with backup theories and frameworks from notorious scholars around the world.  Speaking is a complex skill that involves a number of different components, including fluency, accuracy, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. It is important to test all of these components in order to get a comprehensive assessment of a learner's speaking ability. How to test the Speaking Skills? There are a number of different ways to test speaking skills. One common approach is to use a rubric. A rubric is a scoring guide that lists the specific criteria that will be used to assess the learner's performance. The criteria on a rubric for speaking skills include things like fluency, accuracy, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Another approach to testing speaking skills is to use a task-based assessm...

Improve speaking by understanding its aspects. Fluency and Coherence? How important to understand this? How it will help our speaking skills?

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  Do you want to improve your speaking skills? So many of us trying to find a way to improve our speaking skills. However, we want it like adding sugar to coffee, but in reality, it is more than just adding sugar. Even for making coffee, we need ingredients, time, ratio, and mixture. How about acquiring speaking skills. It needs fluency, coherence, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, accuracy, and communicative ability, In today's series, I am trying to explain Fluency and coherence. And how can we improve it with a few easy activities? If so, then you need to focus on fluency and coherence. Fluency refers to the ability to speak smoothly and efficiently, while coherence refers to the ability to speak logically and organizationally. Both fluency and coherence are important for effective communication, as they help the listener understand what the speaker is saying. This b log post will discuss the importance of fluency and coherence in speaking. We will also provide a framework for...