The Department of Foreign
Languages wishes to congratulate senior Kelli Flemming on scoring Advance Low
on the Oral Proficiency Interview, a national standardized test required for
teacher licensure in the state of Ohio. Congratulations Kelli – you are one
step closer to becoming an amazing Spanish teacher!
About the Advance Low rating
(besides the fact that it takes a lot of work to reach this level of
proficiency!):
Speakers
at the Advanced-Low level are able to handle a variety of
communicative tasks, although somewhat haltingly at times. They participate
actively in most informal and a limited number of formal conversations on
activities related to school, home, and leisure activities and, to a lesser
degree, those related to events of work, current, public, and personal interest
or individual relevance.
Advanced-Low
speakers demonstrate the ability to narrate and describe in all major time
frames (past, present and future) in paragraph length discourse, but control of
aspect may be lacking at times. They can handle appropriately the linguistic
challenges presented by a complication or unexpected turn of events that occurs
within the context of a routine situation or communicative task with which they
are otherwise familiar, though at times their discourse may be minimal for the
level and strained. Communicative strategies such as rephrasing and
circumlocution may be employed in such instances. In their narrations and
descriptions, they combine and link sentences into connected discourse of
paragraph length. When pressed for a fuller account, they tend to grope and
rely on minimal discourse. Their utterances are typically not longer than a
single paragraph. Structure of the dominant language is still evident in the
use of false cognates, literal translations, or the oral paragraph structure of
the speaker's own language rather than that of the target language.
Advanced-Low
speakers contribute to the conversation with sufficient accuracy, clarity, and
precision to convey their intended message without misrepresentation or
confusion, and it can be understood by native speakers unaccustomed to dealing
with non-natives, even though this may be achieved through repetition and
restatement. When attempting to perform functions or handle topics associated
with the Superior level, the linguistic quality and quantity of their speech
will deteriorate significantly.
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