Using informal interviews for skills assessment

Comprehension

• Does the learner understand what you say?
• Does the learner often ask you to repeat or give you the wrong answer to the question?

Speaking

• Is the learner’s speech easy to understand or do you have to ask the learner to repeat?
• Is the learner’s speech fluent or are there many pauses?
• Is the speech grammatically accurate? Are there breakdowns in communication because the word order is often incorrect?
• Can the learner pronounce individual sounds correctly?
• Does the learner use appropriate intonation patterns? (Do questions sound like questions and statements like statements?)