Oral Proficiency Interview: Based on the guidelines established by the American Council of Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The interview ill be conducted by an outside examiner who has not had the student in class. Strengths and weaknesses in student performance are discussed at subsequent LFS Faculty Council Meetings and used for program review and revision purposes. 80% of students ach...

Foreign Language AnnalsVolume 54, Issue 3 p. 559-560 ISSUE INFORMATION - ED BOARD, ACTFL OFFICERS PAGEFree Access Information Ed Board, Officers Page First published: 29 October 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12580AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use ch...

As language learners scale up in terms of speaking proficiency, they expand the volume of expressions in the target language that they can use in a robust fashion, combining vocabulary and syntactic structures into novel constructions and transferring them to new contexts. In the ISLET Project, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), we have developed a strategy for allowing a dialog-r...

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 This research aims to 1). analyze the level of Arabic proficiency in KMA 183 text book from perspective ACTFL, 2). Knowing urgency arrangement material textbook on language proficiency. 3) describe implications analysis based ACTFL guidelines. The is library by presenting data, documents and other supporting files with a qualitative descriptive approach, using content techniques,...

The validation of ability scales describing multidimensional skills is always challenging, but not impossible. This study applies a multistage, criterion‐referenced approach that uses a framework of aligned texts and reading tasks to explore the validity of the ACTFL and related reading proficiency guidelines. Rasch measurement and statistical analyses of data generated in three separate langua...

Self-assessment (SA), as an activity for reflecting on one's own performance and abilities (Black & Wiliam, 1998), has been a topic of interest to educators over the years. Among second language (L2) educators, SA began growing in popularity 1970s 1980s, when L2 educators’ focus shifted from analyzing linguistic systems examining how learners learn language. Many can-do statements descripto...