Oral Interview Rubric ranked 1-6 or 7 to represent a grading scale. 

1=65%  2=75%  3=80%  4=85% 5=95% 6=100%  7=+100%

Error Tally

Verb Vocab

Pronouns  

Vowel pronunciation

Functions   
0.  Politeness exchanges, greetings, etc.
1. Name, personal information (origin, residence, work, study)
2. Family members--description, age, work
3. Hobbies, sports, interests, weekend activities
4. Preferences, plans, likes, dislikes
5. Feelings, reactions etc. in various contexts, especially regarding weather.
Tener expressions, weather expressions, estar + adjectives, porque…
6. Narrating in past, or discussion of interactions between people (work on this)
7.  Extensive narration, humor, circumlocution

Grammatical accuracy hierarchy
0. Basic vocabulary for polite exchanges
1. Vocabulary for personal information
2. Formation of present tense verbs correct in most cases for common verbs like ser, tener, estar
3. Present tense accurate for wider range of verbs
4. Some accuracy of adjective agreement (gender/number) , Use of gustar and a few reflexive verbs (llamarse, ponerse, sentirse)
5.  past tense or subjunctive starting to appear
6. Use of indirect and direct object pronouns, adjectives usually accurate.
7. Three verb tenses demonstrated with precision, multiple pronouns, passive voice

Syntax (Sentence structure) 
0. Disjointed vocabulary  (single words, not much information)
1. Vocabulary sufficient to make politeness exchanges and personal info
2. Rudimentary sentence structure--generally has a verb, but often inaccurate, and usually limited to ser, tener, estar (a bit like Tarzan)
3. Sentence structure still a bit shaky, but more verbs are appearing--vocabulary fairly extensive.
4. Basic sentence structure for materials covered in 1st semester usually accurate.  Lots of verbs appear in sentences--few if any fragments.  Adjective agreement and article usage still shaky.  Some sentences may contain more than 5 words, but most are still pretty short.
5. Object and reflexive pronouns appear occasionally in correct forms.  Sentences are fairly long--adjectives, adverbs, times, places, expansive content like where, when, with whom, why, etc.
6.  Able to talk or narrate independently in present and past tenses OR present and Subjunctive. 
7.  Extensive use of conjunctions, circumlocution, and other structures that produce accurate, extended speech.

Pronunciation & Comprehensibility 
1. Very difficult to understand--many errors in pronunciation, especially with vowels (confusing sounds of E and A)
2. Some difficulty of comprehension because of the same types of errors, but there should be a bit more accuracy in the phonetics.  Sounds like English phonetics, but vowels are usually correct.
3.  Comprehensible, but very stiff sound--thick American accent.  No rolled R, hard D, hard T.  A few errors here and there. 
4. Beginning to make correct pronunciation of consonants, but evidence of lack of fluency (slow, choppy).  Rarely makes errors of vowels, except for confusion of verb endings and adjective endings. 
5.  Words are flowing out with very few errors.  Still some choppiness or slowness of speech, but the consonants definitely sound like Spanish.  Beginning to use pitch to show feeling, emphasis, questions.
6. Words sound like they flow together.  Consonants are soft.  Evidence of a reasonably authentic accent.  Voice shows emotion, question, sarcasm, humor.   

 Warm-up:

• What is your name and age?  
• Where do you work?  What classes do you have, how many credits, what time, what days? 
• Describe yourself and some family members

Level check:

• Favorite activities, weekend activities, future plans (this weekend, during Christmas break)  
• Demonstrate that you can conjugate verbs in single verb and double verb clauses.
• Describe feelings and activities in various situations or weather conditions 

Higher level: (to see how far you can go)

• Show that you can use some indirect object/reflexive/direct object pronouns
• Expansive answers to questions like “Why?”
• Respond to questions including object pronouns.
• Talk fairly expansively about future plans and desires.
• Talk fairly expansively about a specific area of interest or special knowledge--i.e. if you know lots of "kitchen Spanish" I might set up a situation where you need to communicate something to Spanish speaking kitchen staff.