Example: Using a wordless book to test your speaking proficiency

You can test your speaking proficiency by telling a story from a picture book where almost all of the events are depicted, but which has no words.

• Use this technique when you think you are at Intermediate level or above.
• You can use the same book more than once, but do not look at it between tests.
• Use a book that fits the culture of the language you are learning.

• You decide to do storytelling and choose or make a storybook with pictures but no words.
• Record your version of the story as you look at the pages with a language associate.
• Listen to the recording, then reread 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: Using a wordless book to test your speaki...
• 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

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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