{"id":340,"date":"2016-02-08T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2024-04-01T21:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T21:13:57","slug":"oral-proficiency-levels-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/oral-proficiency-levels-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Proficiency Levels in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-341 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/workplace-300x186.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/workplace-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/workplace.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)\u00a0developed a scale\u00a0to demonstrate the\u00a0main language functions that a learner can\u00a0perform with full control at each of the major levels.\u00a0The\u00a0chart\u00a0shows the\u00a0connection of the levels of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/actfl-proficiency-scale\"><em>ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>with the rating system used by the federal government, agencies, and armed services. Important messages reinforced by this chart includes:<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0Two years of studying a language is NOT sufficient (no jobs have the Novice level as the minimum entry requirement).<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>2.<\/strong>\u00a0The professions or positions that correspond to each proficiency level are based on analysis of the minimal language requirements for each job, determined by experts from companies and agencies who use ACTFL proficiency tests. Factors include how controlled or unpredictable are the situations one encounters in that job and also how repetitive, creative, or abstract is the language needed. Educators can help learners by designing learning activities that are less teacher-controlled and that encourage less predictable responses.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>3.<\/strong>\u00a0Studying a language may get a person into Advanced levels, but experiences immersed in the environment of the target language and culture are needed to reach the highest levels. Providing more authentic, real-world situations or applications in our classrooms can speed up the journey to higher levels for language learners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)\u00a0developed a scale\u00a0to demonstrate the\u00a0main language functions that a learner can\u00a0perform with full control at each of the major levels.\u00a0The\u00a0chart\u00a0shows the\u00a0connection of the levels of the\u00a0ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines\u00a0with the rating system used by the federal government, agencies, and armed services. Important messages reinforced by this chart [&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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial","category-government"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}