Spoken Interpersonal Communication
calificación 5
(a) Interaction. Students at Achievement Level 5 initiate, maintain, and close conversations on familiar topics in a culturally appropriate manner most of the time. They understand and usually use culturally appropriate expressions and gestures.
(b) Strategies. Students at this level use a variety of communication strategies as necessary to maintain communication (e.g., circumlocution, paraphrasing, requesting clarification or information). They often use questions to maintain the conversation and use context to deduce meaning of unfamiliar words. They often recognize errors and self-correct.
(c) Opinions. They state opinions and demonstrate some ability to support opinions on topics of personal interest.
(d) Language structures. These students use a variety of simple and compound sentences and some complex sentences on familiar topics, and they narrate and describe in all time frames, with a few errors that do not impede comprehensibility.
(e) Vocabulary. They understand and use vocabulary on a variety of familiar topics, including some beyond those of personal interest.
(f) Register. Their choice of register is usually appropriate for the audience, and its use is consistent despite occasional errors.
(g) Pronunciation. Their pronunciation and intonation patterns, pacing, and delivery are comprehensible to an audience unaccustomed to interacting with language learners; their pronunciation is consistent, with few errors that do not impede comprehensibility.
(h) Cultures, connections, and comparisons. These students identify the relationships among products, practices, and perspectives in the target culture(s) and compare them with their own culture. They compare and contrast a variety of geographic, historical, artistic, social, or political features of target culture communities.
calificación 4
(a) Students at Achievement Level 4 initiate, maintain, and close conversations on familiar topics. They usually interact in a culturally appropriate manner and may understand and use culturally appropriate expressions and gestures.
(b) These students use some communication strategies
to maintain communication (e.g., circumlocution, paraphrasing, restatement, asking for clarification or information). They use context to deduce meaning of unfamiliar words. They recognize some errors and self-correct.
(c) They provide opinions on familiar topics with limited ability to provide support.
(d) They use simple and compound sentences and a few complex sentences with some accuracy. They narrate and describe in all time frames, demonstrating the most accuracy in present time and some accuracy in the past and future.
(e) These students understand and use vocabulary on a variety of familiar topics, including some culturally appropriate and idiomatic expressions related to topics of personal interest.
(f) Their choice of register is usually appropriate for the situation, yet some shifts between formal and informal registers occur.
(g) Their pronunciation and intonation are comprehensible to an audience accustomed to interacting with language learners; errors do not impede comprehensibility.
(h) These students describe
in some detail products or practices of the target culture(s) and may identify perspectives of the target culture(s) with some inaccuracies. They compare and contrast some geographic, historical, artistic, social, or political features of target culture communities.
calificación 3
(a) Students at Achievement Level 3 initiate, maintain, and close conversations on familiar topics and sometimes interact in a culturally appropriate manner.
(b) These students occasionally use communication strategies, such as circumlocution and paraphrasing. Students at this level of achievement often seek clarification of meaning by asking for repetition. They use context to deduce meaning of unfamiliar words. Students may recognize errors; attempts at correction are only occasionally successful.
(c) These students state opinions on topics of personal interest, and they understand and respond to questions and statements on familiar topics.
(d) Their narrations and descriptions are characterized by strings of simple sentences and a few compound sentences, with the most accuracy in the present time and some accuracy in other time frames.
(e) They understand and use vocabulary from familiar thematic word groups, including occasionally some culturally appropriate and idiomatic expressions.
(f) Choice of register may be inappropriate for the intended audience, and shifts between formal and informal registers occur.
(g) Their pronunciation and intonation are comprehensible to an audience accustomed to interacting with language learners, yet errors occasionally impede comprehensibility.
(h) They identify some cultural products or practices of the target culture(s) and may identify a few common perspectives. They identify some geographic, historical, artistic, social, or political features of target culture communities.