Example: Using a map to test your listening proficiency

You can use two copies of a town or city map to test your listening proficiency.

• Use this technique if you think you are at Intermediate proficiency.

• You can use this technique to learn to understand directions as well as to check proficiency.

  Tip:	When testing yourself, ask a speaker other than a language associate (LA) to test you, or ask the LA to direct you to a place you have not already used in practice activities.

• You choose understanding directions as a task appropriate to Intermediate level. Give a speaker of the language one copy of a town or city map and ask for directions on how to get from one place to another.
• Listen to the directions and trace the path on your copy of the map.
• Check with the speaker to see if you arrived at the right place.
• Reread the description of the different levels of listening proficiency in the ACTFL guidelines.
• Decide as honestly as possible which level of the guidelines your performance matches.

  Note:

  If you got where you were supposed to most of the time, you are probably at Intermediate level.

• Example of task module: Example: Using a map to test your listening profic...
• In task module: Testing your listening 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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