Coaching Assessment (segmental)

What is the Accent Assessment?

The accent assessment is an oral proficiency test that measures how well you understand and pronounce English phonemes. The key to remember is that assessment-takers are scored on how comprehensible they are, which usually revolves around how natural they sound. Natural does not mean perfect, but it does mean that the assessment-taker should be easy to understand even for a listener with little or no experience with non-native speakers. In the assessment, responses to questions that you hear are carefully reviewed. The responses are then rated by trainers. The timed assessment consists of short phrases, reciting sentences, speaking exercises and impromptu speech. It is designed to evaluate your accent proficiency. You will be asked to describe speaking tasks, including those unrelated to your profession or field of study. You will be evaluated based on your responses by a real instructor in a virtual classroom. Once the assessment begins, you must keep pace with the timed questions. The time allotted for each section is provided by the trainer before the section begins.

The ARTA assessment is administered in real-time virtual classroom, and you will be speaking into a microphone. If you opt to be taking the assessment one-to-one with your trainer we recommend to keep all outside interruptions to a minimum, which may be distracting while speaking or responding in the classroom.