It is often challenging for teachers to assess and grade communicative language and proficiency. This presentation with guide you in concretely assess interpersonal, presentational and interpretive communication in the foreign language classroom.

1. How to assess
foreign language
proficiency

2. Tips, Tools and Resources to help
your students rise in proficiency
and communicate with confidence.

3. Teachers are required to give
number or letter grades.

4. Challenging
for foreign language teachers.
Communicative language
is not not easy to grade.

5. Traditional grading is based on
answers being right or wrong.
Assessing
Communication is
not about right
and wrong.

6. I’ve been there, so I researched
ACTFL proficiency levels.
The fluidity of
proficiency levels
doesn’t integrate well
into a traditional
grading program.

8. As you grapple with
grading, get familiar
with ACTFL
proficiency level text
types.
Knowing student
output is the first step
in creating tasks.

10. First consider:
• Text type
• Thematic vocabulary
• Anticipated language
structures
Then, create a prompt
or task that students can
complete and be
assessed on.

11. Backwards planning is essential.
Consider the text type, vocabulary
and structures to ensure the
intended outcome.

12. • text type
• language control
• vocabulary
• strategy use

13. Click the image below to read my blog
post with examples and downloads.

14. These rubrics will show how quickly
& efficiently you can assess
proficiency and integrate the results
into your class grades.

15. www.wlclassroom.com
Tips, Tools and Resources to help
your students rise in proficiency and
communicate with confidence.

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