6 Assessing productive and interactive skills Personal refl ection

 
–
 
might be 
doubled to give ten marks, while other categories – 
Accuracy
 
and 
Pronunciation
 – 
might each carry only fi ve marks. The total score 
would be reported out of 20, but half of the available points would be 
contributed from the fl uency scale.

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Table 6.4
 
A holistic scale: the TOEFL Independent Writing Scale
Score
Task Description
5
An essay at this level largely accomplishes all of the following: 
•
effectively addresses the topic and task
•
is well organized and well developed, using clearly appropriate 
explanations, exemplifi cations, and/or details
•
displays unity, progression, and coherence
•
displays consistent facility in the use of language, demonstrating syntactic 
variety, appropriate word choice, and idiomaticity, though it may have 
minor lexical or grammatical errors.
4