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Assessing ESL Students

Here are some criteria you can use to informally assess the progress of English mastery of students for whom English is a second language.

• Conversational skill
• Knowledge and use of vocabulary
• Grammar and sentence structure
• Reading
• Spelling
• Knowledge of culture
• Accent

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