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ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEW
Summary of Speaking Proficiency
Levels
Level 0 (No Proficiency)
Level 1 (Survival)
- Creates with language.
- Can participate in short conversations.
- Can satisfy basic survival needs; can get into, through, and
out of simple situations.
- Can ask and answer questions.
- Comprehensible to native speakers used to dealing with foreigners.
Level 2 (Concrete)
- Can participate in conversations about own background and everyday
life: family, interests, work, travel, familiar current events.
- Can describe, narrate, explain processes, and give instructions
and directions.
- Can get into, through, and out of situations with complications.
- Uses past, present, and future substantially correctly.
- Comprehensible to native speakers not used to dealing with foreigners.
Level 3 (Abstract)
- Can converse informally and formally about concrete and abstract
topics.
- Can hypothesize, support opinions, and resolve problem situations.
- Can speak about unfamiliar situations. " Actually thinks in
the target language.
Level 4 (Advanced Professional)
- Can tailor language according to the situation and listeners.
- Can counsel, persuade, and advise.
- Exhibits no pattern of grammatical errors.
- Well-organized discourse.
Level 5 (Equivalent to Well-Educated Native Speaker)
- Speech equivalent to that of a well-educated native speaker
of a unstigmatized dialect.
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