How to Assess Your Speaking Skills in IELTS

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Cambridge English at IELTS.org publishes a list of descriptors for each band score. These describe what the different bands mean in terms of specific speaking skills. We're going to look at them all in a moment on a PDF from the IELTS website. If there's no English to be assessed, then I think you get nothing. So how do IELTS examiners assess your spoken English?

How do we know when someone's English is good? Is it just about having a "British accent", knowing lots of big words, or speaking with no errors? In fact, there is a lot more to it than that. IELTS can show us how someone's level of English is assessed by looking at a wide range of skills and sub-skills and there is a lot more to it than making no errors while speaking with a "British accent". This episode should help you consider your own level of English level, get some perspective on what language competence really means, and hopefully cause people to think twice when making snap judgements about other people's English.

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