I Can Speaking Good The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

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*I Can Speaking Good! The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines Revisited Prof. Thomas J. Garza Slavic

*I Can Speaking Good! The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines Revisited Prof. Thomas J. Garza Slavic and Eurasian Studies Director, Texas Language Center University of Texas at Austin

Beginnings: Interagency Language Roundtable • Imperative of WWII and Korean Wars • Civil Service

Beginnings: Interagency Language Roundtable • Imperative of WWII and Korean Wars • Civil Service Commission ordered to create inventory of language abilities of employees • No measure of proficiency existed • 1955: Foreign Service Institute (FSI) charged with development of descriptors

Development of ILR Scale • Creation of six-point (0 -5) scale • Functional descriptors

Development of ILR Scale • Creation of six-point (0 -5) scale • Functional descriptors for each level • Development of interview technique to determine level (Oral Proficiency Interview) • Standardized scoring process • Later broken into language skills (speaking, reading, etc. ) • 1985 Revised to include plusses

Guidelines for the Academy: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages • 1982:

Guidelines for the Academy: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages • 1982: Provisional Guidelines released • 1986: First official four-skill guidelines released • 1999 -2001: Revised guidelines released

ACTFL Pyramid of Proficiency • Use of descriptors in place of ILR numbers •

ACTFL Pyramid of Proficiency • Use of descriptors in place of ILR numbers • Levels themselves are descriptive • Correspond to ILR levels, including inter-level designations: low, mid, high for + and -

Cultural Literacy and Literary Texts “You are not the kind of guy who would

Cultural Literacy and Literary Texts “You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy. You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might come clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again it might not. [. . . ] Somewhere back there you could have cut your losses, but you rode past that moment on a comet trail of white powder and now you are trying to hang on to the rush. Your brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and muddy from their long march through the night. There are holes in their boots and they are hungry. They need to be fed. They need the Bolivian Marching Powder. ” Jay Mc. Inerney, Bright Lights, Big City, Vintage /Random House: NY, 1984, pp. 1 -2.

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