Are more advanced grammar structures used?
Are more advanced words used? Especially adjectives and adverbs.
How accurate is the students’ language use? Do the mistakes made hinder communication?
Advanced grammar = adjectives (beautiful, horrible), adverbs (definitely, absolutely), complex forms of comparisons (a great deal better than, nowhere near as beautiful as), mix of tenses, gerunds (-ing form), if-sentences, relative pronouns (who, which, that).
5 pts Nearly native level, effortless and fluent, hardly any mistakes present or mistakes are more advanced attempts at language (incidental)
4 pts Language is clear and mostly correct, there is some variety and no awkward language but on the simple side
3 pts Language is simple but correct, there’s not much variety but also not many mistakes
2 pts Language is basic and too simple with unnecessary mistakes, repetitive l language
1 pt Lots of mistakes which impede understanding, hard to follow because
of language