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G-TELP
G-TELP Level Test
G-TELP Speaking Test
G-TELP Writing Test
Jr. G-TELP
EPTA
GBT
The speaker cannot perform or understand the tasks.
The speaker is not comprehensible even in simple speech due to frequent pauses, rephrasing, pronunciation errors, limited vocabulary, and lack of grammatical control.
The speaker can successfully complete, and be understood overall, in performing the tasks. Speech is slow and labored, and is characterized by a strong accent and frequent grammatical errors. Transmission of the message may be impeded frequently by phonemic, stress, and intonation problems.
The Speaker is generally intelligible and grammatically accurate in performing the tasks. Speech may be interrupted by occasional pauses, false starts, rephrasing, etc. Speech evidences some consistent pronunciation and stress errors and a foreign intonation and rhythm, which only occasionally interfere with communication.
The speaker is almost always intelligible in performing the tasks. Speech is fairly smooth and spontaneous although having some mispronunciation of individual sounds. The speaker's vocabulary is extensive and varied, exhibiting good control of the structure of the language.
Level One is not evaluated by the Speaking Test, although mastery of Level Two indicates that the speaker is approaching the acquisition of oral proficiency skills at the native-speaker level.