{"id":222,"date":"2016-04-01T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:35:06","slug":"improvements-to-aappl-shorten-test-segments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/improvements-to-aappl-shorten-test-segments\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvements to AAPPL Shorten Test Segments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-223 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aappl-class-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aappl-class-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aappl-class.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Starting April 1, 2016, ACTFL has launched new updates to AAPPL, The ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages.<\/p>\n<p>The changes shorten test segments by 10 minutes and\u00a0impacts all three current levels that include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novice, Intermediate<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Advanced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due to these\u00a0improvements, the test segments are now\u00a020 minutes instead of 30 minutes. Each level (Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced) now\u00a0has three topics.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAt the Novice and Intermediate levels, each ILS topic has three prompts (down from four).<\/p>\n<p>At the Advanced Level, each topic now has 2 prompts (down from 4).<\/p>\n<p>We welcome you to experience the new improvements to AAPPL!<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT AAPPL:<\/p>\n<p>The ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL) is unlike any other assessment. AAPPL Measure addresses the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.actfl.org\/publications\/all\/world-readiness-standards-learning-languages\">World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages<\/a>\u00a0and uses today\u2019s communication media in which test takers perform tasks such as participating in a virtual video chat, creating wikis, e-mailing, and using apps to demonstrate\u00a0language ability.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about AAPPL\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aappl.actfl.org\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting April 1, 2016, ACTFL has launched new updates to AAPPL, The ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages. The changes shorten test segments by 10 minutes and\u00a0impacts all three current levels that include: Novice, Intermediate\u00a0and\u00a0Advanced. Due to these\u00a0improvements, the test segments are now\u00a020 minutes instead of 30 minutes. Each level (Novice, Intermediate, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[80,16,71,65,7],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-aappl","tag-actfl","tag-actfl-nabe-tesol-biliteracy-language-testing-high-school-lti-testing-academic","tag-language-teaching-language-learning","tag-language-testing"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}