IELTS Speaking Band 9

[Englishuser]

Hi,

Band 9

Fluency and coherence:

• speaks fluently with only rare repetition or self-correction; any hesitation is content-related rather than to find words or grammar

• speaks coherently with fully appropriate cohesive features

• develops topics fully and appropriately

Lexical resource:

• uses vocabulary with full flexibility and precision in all topics

• uses idiomatic language naturally and accurately

Grammatical range and accuracy:

• uses a full range of structures naturally and appropriately

• produces consistently accurate structures apart from ‘slips’ characteristic of native speaker speech

Are there many ESL students who meet the above criteria?

EU

[Conchita]

I wonder if even the average native person in the street has the ability to use the language in such a perfect manner!

[Aydincelenk]

Hi Englishuser,
I think we can’t call someone with that much of English “STUDENT”, or if we can, I think we can’t name a lot of teachers of English as “TEACHER”.
Love from Turkey,
Aydın

[Englishuser]

Hi Conchita and Aydin,

Conchita:

I wonder if even the average native person in the street has the ability to use the language in such a perfect manner!

That, Conchita, is a very good question indeed. Let’s see what our native speaker forum members think.

Aydin:

Yes, do you need to study the language if you are that proficient in the language? I suppose most English teachers would get Band Scores of 9 on the IELTS.

EU

[Alan]

Cor, well, yeah, my my, take yer point, Conchita!

Al

[Lost_Soul]

BTW, today I did a grammar test in my own language and I made 94% out of 130. (And one foreigner made 101%). :oops: :oops: :oops: I became very embarrased…
(I didnt pay due heed to the test and made it very fast without much thinking - very impetuous of me)