PEI PLA English cheat sheet

Speaking / Oral Production

• Fluency is rated on continuity and pace, not speed; a short pause to plan beats a rushed, broken sentence.

• Use fillers strategically (well, let me think) to hold the floor instead of switching to the first language.

• Part 2-style long turns: structure as past context, present situation, and future expectation to fill the time coherently.

• Range scoring rewards varied structures - conditionals, relative clauses, perfect tenses - used accurately, not just attempted.

• Pronunciation targets: word stress in multi-syllable words and sentence stress on content words; weak forms for articles and prepositions.

• Interactive tasks require a question back or a response to the partner; monologue-only answers lose interaction marks.

• Self-correction is positive if brief (I mean, rather); repeated restarts damage fluency scores.

• Paraphrase around unknown vocabulary instead of stopping: describe the object's function or category to keep talking.