From Geocities 4: ESL Scales

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Neil Whitfield’s English and ESL Pages

 

Neil Whitfield’s ESL SCALES RUBRIC FOR WRITING

 

Note: Based on ESL Scales (Australia) 1994.

The scales describe a pathway all learners of English follow,

whatever their age .

 

Level 7	·         Writes complex texts characterised by a personal style and extended content. ·         Shows consistent control over textual features including subject-verb agreement, tense, use of modals, tag questions, prepositional idioms and complex conditionals ·         Adapts writing to take into account context, purpose and reader		Near Native Speaker
Level 6	·         Writes coherent texts characterised by a personal style and extended content. ·         Shows varying but usual control (90%?) over textual features including subject-verb agreement, tense, use of modals, tag questions, prepositional idioms, articles and complex conditionals ·         Takes account of context, purpose and reader		Has few problems; most SBHS texts and tasks at least here
Level 5	·         Writes coherent texts characterised by a degree of personal style and reasonably extended content. ·         Shows some (general) accuracy with textual features including subject-verb agreement, tense, use of common modals, tag questions, prepositional idioms, articles and conditionals ·         Takes some account of context, purpose and reader but may lack resources to do this consistently		Quite a few SBHS students will be here, especially if recently arrived
Level 4	·         Writes texts characterised by overall cohesion and coherence. ·         Shows quite variable accuracy with textual features including subject-verb agreement, tense, use of common modals, tag questions, prepositional idioms, articles and simple conditionals and formal/informal register ·         Demonstrates awareness that texts must be tailored to the requirements of the topic, purpose and audience.
Level 3	·         Writes a variety of simple coherent texts demonstrating a developing use of simple language and structures ·         Writes identifiable paragraph topic sentences; writes coherent sentences using some dependent clauses; writes predominantly in simple present and past tenses; uses subject-verb agreement with some accuracy; overgeneralises past tense forms (“drinked”); makes varying use of articles. ·         Demonstrates awareness of common formats and text types.		Go to English and ESL Site home

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