Are you frustrated by the ACTFL questions? Let’s talk about how to properly respond to these difficult questions.
ACTFL Proficiency Levels
In order to correctly answer these pesky questions, it’s important to read the ACTFL Proficiency Descriptors. First, you should know what is expected for novice, intermediate, and advanced students. You need to know the expectations for reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Novice, Intermediate, or Advanced?
How do I know if an activity is appropriate for novice, intermediate, or advanced students? Here are some quick tips:
- Novice students should know isolated words and phrases. Native speakers cannot usually understand them. Even native speakers used to second language learners will struggle to communicate with novice speakers.
- Intermediate students should be able to communicate at the sentence level. Sympathetic native speakers are likely to understand them.
- Advanced students should be able to communicate at the paragraph level and beyond. They can also communicate in the past, present, and future tenses. All native speakers should understand them. However, there will still be some gaps in communication.
Take a Course to Learn More about the ACTFL Proficiency Level Questions
Our Comprehensive LOTE Course or LOTE Pedagogy/Instruction and Assessment Course, teaches you about the ACTFL Proficiency Levels. In addition, there are plenty of sample questions for you to practice.
These questions are in the instruction and assessment section of the exam. Instruction and Assessment accounts for 26.6% of the test. As a result, even native speakers can fail this exam if they don’t learn pedagogy/instruction and assessment. If you are confident in all areas of Spanish and know you only need to study the pedagogy, check this out.
