the pronunciation and pace (acoustic features).

how much you can say or write in a limited time (fluency).

how well you answer the question that was asked (task relevance).

the variety of word choice (lexical diversity).

the level of vocabulary used (lexical sophistication).

the variety and level of your grammar (grammatical complexity).

the correctness of your grammar (grammatical accuracy).

When Duolingo assess your speaking skills, they use the following assessment criteria:

Tip 3: Use a range of grammatical structures Instead, use vocabulary that you are confident with and which are relevant to the topic. Mistakes with vocabulary will affect your overall score. It is more likely that you will make mistakes with unfamiliar words either by mispronouncing them or using them incorrectly in your sentences. However, to be safe, we suggest avoiding using words you are not familiar with. You may want to make your speaking answers sound fancy with big and complex words. The AI marking system will be able to tell if you have memorised your answers and you will get disqualified. Memorised language doesn’t show an accurate measure of your English-language skills.

Tip 1: Don’t memorise Duolingo English Test answersĭon’t memorise answers for the Duolingo English Test. Similar to Read, Then Speak, you have between 30 to 90 seconds to speak about your answer, but, again, we advise to speak for as long as you can. You have 20 seconds to listen to the prompt, and you can listen three times in total. Listen, Then Speakįor this question type, you listen to a topic and speak about it. You will have this question type twice on the exam. We advise to speak for as long as possible. You will then speak on the topic for between 30 to 90 seconds. You will be given 20 seconds to mentally prepare (remember you cannot take notes) for the topic. Photos might be of:įor this question type, you will be given a topic to speak about. For this question type, you will have 90 seconds to describe a photo through speaking.

Duolingo speaking test