How pronunciation is marked in IELTS?
Pronunciation is the integral part of the para metres which article into the consideration to assess your speaking. Examiner along with the other parameters of speaking, that are lexical resources, fluency, grammatical range and accuracy also includes pronunciation as the important parameter in order to give you average score that collectively considered as your final scores in IELTS speaking.
Each of the parameter consist 25% in total scoring.
What are the features of marking for pronunciation?
IELTS Speaking Marking Criteria:
Pronunciation is one of four marking criteria for
IELTS speaking:
- Fluency = 25%
- Vocabulary = 25%
- Grammar = 25%
- Pronunciation = 25%
How pronunciation is marked
Let’s spotlight various outlooks of pronunciation for marking criteria:
Various traits generally examine the looks for while they mark the pronunciation.
Below given are the main features on which your pronunciation is actually graded:
- Pronunciation is basically noticed with the sound that you basically show why you enunciate your words. Sounds of individual as well as similar words.
- Individual sounds – similar sounds (p/b m/n d/t) consonant clusters (sht / cht etc), length of vowels (sheep / ship etc), schwa (the lazy vowel sound that is never stressed – example – there are two schwas in “dangerous), silent letters.
- Strong and weak forms – example “and” – this can be produced as “n” (fish and chips = fish “n” chips) or it can be pronounced at full length “and”. This depends on how and when you use this word.
- Enunciation of each word
- Stress on the syllables and different words. Sound in the particular word where actually you give your stress.
- When you link and chunk your sentence. In other words, the sentence stress.
- Your intonation(high and low pitch)
- Words and linking sounds
- Chunking (putting parts of a sentence together into chunks to create stress and clarity within a sentence)
- Contractions (it is = it’s / my name is = my
name’s I did not = I didn’t / I have been
=I’ve bin / I’m going to = I’m gonna / I
want to = I wanna)
How pronunciation is marked
Band scores with the pronunciation
5 Band scores – features of miscommunications and not making clear and able to the listener about your expressions as well as the word stress.
Candidate tries to open control the pronunciation but fails in doing with that. The candidate might choose the features of the person who scores the six band scores.
6 band scores – features of conveying the message and having good communication and attempt to make your pronunciation more clear by using different pronunciation features but unable to avoid the control similar at each word. Including this, there could also be some of the words or expression used which are not enunciated.
How pronunciation is marked
Band 7 = shows all features of band 6 and only some of the positive features of band 8.
Band 8 = uses a wide range of pronunciation features throughout most of the test. Is easy to understand and the mother tongue does not affect clarity.
Band 9 = The candidate uses a full range of features with precision and subtlety. The candidate is effortless to understand.
So this is how you pronunciation is marked in IELTS speaking
How pronunciation is marked
