Test ACTFL Proficiency

What can Advanced High-level speakers do with aesthetic properties of language?

• Ignore them

• Start to have awareness of them

• Avoid using them

• Only understand them in simple texts

What can Intermediate High level speakers understand with ease?

• Sentence level discourse

• Scientific papers

• Complex novels

• Technical documents

At which level is writing often comprehensible to natives accustomed to the writing of non-natives?

• Novice High

• Novice Mid

• Novice Low

• Intermediate Low

What is the ability of a Novice Low learner in recognizing isolated words or phrases?

• Can reproduce isolated words with errors

• Can recognize high frequency words and phrases

• Can recognize a limited number of letters and characters

• Can occasionally recognize isolated words or phrases

What can Intermediate High level speakers narrate and describe?

• Only in future tense

• Only in past tense

• Only in present tense

• In different tenses when writing about everyday topics

In major time frames with some control of aspect.

• Only in future tense

• Only in present tense

• Only in past tense

• In major time frames with some control of aspect

What can a Novice Mid learner recognize and begin to understand?

• Isolated words or phrases

• High frequency words and phrases

• Limited number of letters and characters

• Uncomplicated communicative tasks

What can a Novice Mid learner do with words and phrases?

• Can recognize letters and symbols

• Can reproduce a modest number of words and phrases

• Can understand sentence length speech

• Can handle uncomplicated communicative tasks

What can Advanced Mid-level speakers handle with ease?

• Only informal tasks

• Various tasks including work, school, and leisure

• Only school-related tasks

• Only leisure activities

What is a skill of Superior-level speakers regarding academic topics?

• Only discuss them informally

• Avoid discussing them

• Can handle abstract topics with specialized vocabulary

• Only understand them partially