Assessing fluency of English learner in a speaking examination

الملخص EN

Recently, there have been discussions on the evaluation of students performance in speaking since self-cultural issues involved in raising awareness about how to enable teachers to assess students fluency in speaking.

The main focus of this study is how to investigate the student level and their speaking skill in terms of fluency.

This study concentrate on personal interview as one of the most common means of assessing speaking skills used in official speaking tests locally and internationally.

The study analyses the level of fluency aptitude of student in terms of their commination in an oral test by following speak fluency criteria such as the use of, er, long pauses, word per minute and the contraction.