Evaluating Speaker - Adv Low-Mid - Otros paises

ACTFL Level: Advanced Low/Mid

Topic: Other Countries

Interview Prompt: ¿Has viajado a otros países? Cuéntame sobre tu viaje más reciente.

Features of speaker performance:

• Tell stories about past events; keep discourse in past tense
• Express (and sometimes support) opinions on abstract issues
• Explain and describe in detail
• Produce coherent discourse across groups of sentences
• Control distinction between preterite and imperfect in context of storytelling
• Comprehensible to people who may not have experience with language learners

About the Advanced Low/Mid Speaker:

Speakers at the Advanced level can participate fluently and actively in a conversation. They can talk about a range of topics that are autobiographical or that relate to concrete events removed in time and/or space (e.g., tell a story about an event in the past; summarize something that happened on campus). They can talk in a coherent fashion to fulfill a variety of tasks, including narration, comparison and contrast, explanations; and they can talk about the past or the future, keeping their discourse in the appropriate time frame and, as they progress through the Advanced level (i.e., Advanced Mid and Advanced High), control the use of preterite and imperfect when narrating and describing in past time.

 Evaluate the Speaker

Looking only at the speaker’s performance, and keeping in mind the linguistic features associated with this level, discuss the following:

• Does the speaker produce a story that includes lots of narrative and descriptive detail?
• Is the context explained well, such that it would be comprehensible to listeners not familiar with the place, event, or people involved in the story?
• Is the speaker able to produce additional information in response to the follow-up questions?
• Is (all or most of) the response comprehensible?
• Is the speaker able to link sentences together to for more complex expressions?
• Is the speaker able to keep his/her discourse in the past?
• Does the speaker control the preterite and imperfect?
• Does the speaker have the vocabulary needed to convey the details of the narrative?
• Does the speaker tell a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an end?
• Does the speaker organize the story logically and coherently?
• http://oralproficiency.coerll.utexas.edu/spanish/module-2-7/ 
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  What proficiency level do you give to the response? Select among the following and justify your choice with evidence from the speech sample:
• Intermediate High. Provides information about the event, but does not keep discourse in the past consistently.
• Advanced Low/Mid: Fulfills the criteria for the task, sometimes with ease and fluency. Sometimes produces a coherent story that focuses on the events and enriches them with descriptive details; sometimes nay not produce a long or detailed story. Sometimes more emphasis on events and less on descriptive detail. Keeps discourse in the past consistently, but may not deploy preterite and imperfect appropriately.
• Advanced High. Goes beyond the criteria for the task by, for example, introducing dialogue, imitating the characters in the story, or discussing the social ramifications of the event.