Written interpersonal communication
calificación 5
(a) Interaction. Students at Achievement Level 5 initiate, maintain, and close written exchanges in formal and informal communications with good control of culturally appropriate conventions. They understand and respond to questions on familiar topics with some elaboration and detail.
(b) Strategies. These students use a variety of communication strategies as necessary in order to maintain communication (e.g., circumlocution, paraphrasing, requesting clarification or information). They use context to deduce meaning of unfamiliar words and 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. They use transitional phrases and cohesive devices.
(e) Writing conventions. Their writing is marked by consistent use of standard conventions of the written language (e.g., capitalization, orthography, accents) as appropriate for the medium of communication (e.g., online chat, email, letters, blogs, bulletin boards).
(f) Vocabulary. They understand and use vocabulary on a variety of familiar topics, including some beyond those of personal interest. They understand and use some culturally appropriate vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.
(g) Register. Their choice of register is usually appropriate for the audience, and its use is consistent despite occasional errors.
(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 written exchanges in formal and informal communications, although control of culturally appropriate conventions is inconsistent. They understand and respond to questions and statements on familiar topics with some elaboration and detail.
(b) These students use communication strategies (e.g., circumlocution, paraphrasing, asking for clarification or information) to maintain communication. 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 are usually accurate when writing about familiar topics using a variety of simple, compound, and a few complex sentences in all time frames, demonstrating the most accuracy in present time and some accuracy in the past and future. They use some transitional phrases and cohesive devices.
(e) Their writing is generally consistent in
the use of standard conventions of the written language (e.g., capitalization, orthography, accents) as appropriate for the medium of communication (e.g., online chat, email, letters, blogs, bulletin boards).
(f) 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.
(g) Their choice of register is usually appropriate for the situation, yet some shifts between formal and informal registers occur.
(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 written exchanges on familiar topics. They understand and respond to questions and statements on familiar topics.
(b) These students occasionally use communication strategies (e.g., circumlocution, restatement, requesting clarification or information) when interacting on familiar topics, and they occasionally use context to deduce meaning of unfamiliar words. They often seek clarification of meaning by asking for repetition. They may recognize errors; attempts at self-editing are occasionally successful.
(c) They state opinions on topics of personal interest.
(d) They produce 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) Their writing shows inconsistent use of standard conventions of the written language (e.g., capitalization, orthography, accents) as appropriate for the medium of communication (e.g., online chat, email, letters, blogs, bulletin boards) that sometimes interferes with meaning.
(f) These students understand and use vocabulary from familiar thematic word groups and occasionally incorporate some culturally appropriate and idiomatic expressions.
(g) Their choice of register may be inappropriate for the intended audience, and shifts between formal and informal registers occur.
(h) These students 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.