American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages certifiesthat

RACHEL DERUSHA
TestType TestDate Language

Official OPIc

01/08/2013

Spanish

has qualified as an Advanced speaker according to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. The speaker has demonstrated a minimum proficiency of Advanced Low, though the actual performance may exceed the proficiency level described below.

Advanced

Director of Professional Programs Date Issued 01/11/2013 LTI - The ACTFL Testing Office

Advanced - ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012 Speaking

Advanced
SpeakersattheAdvancedLowsublevelareabletohandleavarietyofcommunicativetasks.Theyareableto participateinmostinformalandsomeformalconversationsontopicsrelatedtoschool,home,andleisureactivities. Theycanalsospeakaboutsometopicsrelatedtoemployment,currentevents,andmattersofpublicandcommunity interest. AdvancedLowspeakersdemonstratetheabilitytonarrateanddescribeinthemajortimeframesofpast,presentand futureinparagraph-lengthdiscoursewithsomecontrolofaspect.Inthesenarrationsanddescriptions,AdvancedLow speakerscombineandlinksentencesintoconnecteddiscourseofparagraphlength,althoughthesenarrationsand descriptionstendtobehandledseparatelyratherthaninterwoven.Theycanhandleappropriatelytheessentiallinguistic challengespresentedbyacomplicationoranunexpectedturnofevents. ResponsesproducedbyAdvancedLowspeakersaretypicallynotlongerthanasingleparagraph.Thespeakers dominantlanguagemaybeevidentintheuseoffalsecognates,literaltranslations,ortheoralparagraphstructureofthat language.Attimestheirdiscoursemaybeminimalforthelevel,markedbyanirregularflow,andcontainingnoticeable self-correction.Moregenerally,theperformanceofAdvancedLowspeakerstendstobeuneven. AdvancedLowspeechistypicallymarkedbyacertaingrammaticalroughness(e.g.,inconsistentcontrolofverb endings),buttheoverallperformanceoftheAdvanced-leveltasksissustained,albeitminimally.Thevocabularyof AdvancedLowspeakersoftenlacksspecificity.Nevertheless,AdvancedLowspeakersareabletousecommunicative strategiessuchasrephrasingandcircumlocution. AdvancedLowspeakerscontributetotheconversationwithsufficientaccuracy,clarity,andprecisiontoconveytheir intendedmessagewithoutmisrepresentationorconfusion.Theirspeechcanbeunderstoodbynativespeakers unaccustomedtodealingwithnon-natives,eventhoughthismayrequiresomerepetitionorrestatement.When attemptingtoperformfunctionsorhandletopicsassociatedwiththeSuperiorlevel,thelinguisticqualityandquantityof theirspeechwilldeterioratesignificantly.