Example: Giving directions to test your speaking proficiency

You can test your speaking proficiency by directing someone to a place familiar to you.

• Use this task if you think you are at Intermediate level.

• Ask the language associate to choose the place for which you are giving directions.

  Reason:

  If you are not able to rehearse, your performance is more likely to reflect your actual proficiency.

• Ask a language associate ( LA ) to choose a place to which he or she wants you to give directions.
• Record yourself giving the directions. Ask the LA to follow along on a map or to draw a diagram, indicating what you have said.
• Listen to the recording, then read the description of the different levels of speaking proficiency in the ACTFL guidelines.
• Decide as honestly as possible which level of the guidelines your performance matches.

• Example of task module: Example: Giving directions to test your speaking p...
• In task module: Testing your speaking proficiency
• In task module: Testing your language proficiency
• In task module: Checking your progress
• In task module: How to manage your language learning program
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

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