The Advantages of Using an Analytic Scoring Procedure in Speaking Assessment

This article describes the advantages of using analytic procedure in speaking assessment. An analytic scoring guide, as compared to the impressionistic one, has a double function: as an instrument to measure the learner's speaking proficiency and as a diagnostic procedure for remedial teaching. Thus, it provides reliable sources of information in the form of scores of the speaking components and can be used as feed-back for the teacher and learner to identify which component needs improvement.