This paper presents and evaluates approaches to automatically score the content correctness of spoken responses in a new language test for teachers of English as a foreign language who are non-native speakers of English. Most ex- isting tests of English spoken proficiency elic- it responses that are either very constrained (e.g., reading a passage aloud) or are of a pre- dominantly spontaneous nature (e.g., stating an opinion on an issue). However, the assess- ment discussed in this paper focuses on essen- tial speaking skills that English teachers need in order to be effective communicators in their classrooms and elicits mostly responses that fall in between these extremes and are moder- ately predictable. In order to automatically score the content accuracy of these spoken re-...

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