NCSSFL-ACTFL Can Do Statements: How Proficiency are your students?

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can Do Statements: How Proficient are Your Students? by Harry G. Tuttle, Ed. D.

http://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements

ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines1986, 1999, 2001, 2012

http://www.aatsp.org/?page=RESOURCPUB

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Objective Assessment Measure

Proficiencies described for teachers

Search the web for “ACTFL Can Do” to get the 44 page document or click

http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Can-Do_Statements.pdf

http://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements

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Can-Do Statements Include:

- Interpersonal (Person-to-Person) Communication

- Presentational Speaking (Spoken Production)

- Presentational Writing (Written Production)

- Interpretive Listening

- Interpretive Reading

Covers all levels

Novice Low – single memorized words/ phrasesNovice Mid - variety of memorized words phrasesNovice High – short social interactions

Intermediate Low -conversations with simple sentencesIntermediate Mid – conversation using sentences and a series of sentencesIntermediate High – conversation in various time frames and with an unexpected complication

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Superior

Advanced

Intermediate

Novice

Spiral Can-Do Proficiency with topics repeated with different functions.

Function Based, not Topic or Grammar Based

Novice Low – Answer Simple Questions – I can respond to Yes/ No questions

Novice Mid – Communicate basic info- I can say or write something abut friends

Novice High – Make Plans – I can exchange information such as where to go

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Pick one Can-Do area such as Interpersonal Communication for your starting focus.

http://www.councilforeconed.org/resource/common-core-state-standards/

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Can-Do becomes our Common Core

CAN-DO: Speaking Interpersonal Novice Mid: I can communicate on very familiar topics using a variety of words or phrases that I have practiced and memorized.

I can introduce myself and others: I can introduce myself and provide basic personal information.I can introduce someone else.I can respond to an introduction.

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9-12

Intermediate

Novice

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Can-Do Levels reached

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VaguePurpose

PracticalReal World Skills

General Language Goals → Can -Do

Proficiencies described for teachers

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Can-Do Proficiencies for students, described for them.

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Focus on what students do, not on what the teacher does.

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Can-Do guides all modern language learning.

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Can-Do has the same meaning in every state!

Does NY State Checkpoint A mean anything in Georgia?

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Can-Do has the same meaning in every country!

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Can-Do gives a common proficiency language.

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Can-Do transcends individual textbooks, helps assess textbook.

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Performance based, spontaneous

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Language Proficiency?

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NOT Vocabulary,

grammar

Communicative Proficiency!

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Each proficiency category has several parts

CAN-DO: Speaking Interpersonal Novice Mid: I can communicate on very familiar topics using a variety of words or phrases that I have practiced and memorized.

- I can introduce myself and others: - I can introduce myself and provide basic personal information.- I can introduce someone else.- I can respond to an introduction.

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For Interpersonal Speaking at Novice level

Novice Low - 3 subsections – 5 total statements

Novice Mid - 7 subsections – 25 total statements

Novice High - 5 subsections – 17 total statements

For all of Novice – 47 statements

Suggestions:

Assess entering students

(5-10 minutes for them to

self-report on Novice

& Intermediate levels).

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Suggestions for how to use Can-Do:

- Use to create final, unit tests, and quizzes.

Name __ Class 101-_ CB1.2 NL1and2, NM1and2

Circle the correct response to the statement.

___1. What is your name?

(A – Well B- Pleased to meet you C- And You?

D- Ana )

- Assess where each Can-Do shows up in the textbook and what might have to be added to or re-arranged in the textbook.

Novice Mid: I can answer a variety of questions.__I can answer questions about what I like and dislike. Chapter 4.1__I can answer questions about what I am doing and what I did. Chapter 7.2__I can answer questions about where I 'm going and where I went. Chapter 7.2__I can answer questions about something I have learned. Chapter 11.1

For the instructor: What Can-Do proficiency do the students achieve as a result of this lesson?

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Set a class year goal such as 85% of Novice.

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- Monitor success 85% or your choice of each sub-section = success.

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Award Can-Do Certificates at each part of each level.

Concerns about Can-Do:

- Novice Mid Level expects students to respond to past and future tense questions. Assumes teacher will use advanced language with even beginners. __I can answer questions about what I am doing and what I did. (Notice past tense!)

Concerns about Can-Do:

- Has little criteria as to how much or how well at higher levels:

Novice High: I can handle short social interactions in everyday situations by asking and answering simple questions.

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Concerns about Can-Do:- Would like official abbreviated codes such as IP.NM.1.myage to use in lesson plans and tests instead of having to write out:

Interpersonal Communication. Novice Mid. I can greet and leave people in a polite way. I can say hello and goodbye to someone my age or younger.

- What Can-Do Statements can your students do now?

- What Can- Do Statements will they be able to do by the end of the year?

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