IELTS examiners use at least four subcategories when assessing a candidate speaking. Fluency and coherence refers to the ability to talk with normal levels of continuity, rate and effort. Continuity refers to your ability to keep talking without pausing and stopping to think. Rate is basically your words to time ratio. And then we'll look at the descriptions of different scores for each category.
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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