ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
- ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines were created by the "American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages" in order to provide a means of assessing the proficiency of a foreign language speaker.
The guidelines are broken up into different proficiency levels: novice, intermediate, advanced, and superior. Additionally, , each of these (except superior) is further subdivided into low, mid and high. These proficiency levels are defined separately for ability to listen, speak, read and write. Thus, in those American programs that emphasize written language over spoken, students may reach the advanced level in reading and writing while remaining at a lower level in listening and speaking.
ee also
*Task-based language learning
*Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
*Canadian language benchmarks
External links
* [http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/LANGUAGELEARNING/OtherResources/ACTFLProficiencyGuidelines/contents.htm ACFTL Proficiency Guidelines] , description from SIL International
* [http://www.actfl.org/ American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages]
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