Explains what are NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements are, describes their role in identifying language proficiency and gives suggestions for their use based on author's class experience
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can Do Statements: How Proficiency are your students?
1. NCSSFL-ACTFL
Can Do Statements: How
Proficient are Your Students?
by Harry G. Tuttle, Ed. D.
http://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements
5. Search the web for “ACTFL Can Do”
to get the 44 page document or click
http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Can-Do_Statements.pdf
http://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements
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8. Novice Low – single memorized words/ phrases
Novice Mid - variety of memorized words phrases
Novice High – short social interactions
Intermediate Low -conversations with simple
sentences
Intermediate Mid – conversation using sentences and
a series of sentences
Intermediate High – conversation in various time
frames and with an unexpected complication
10. Function Based, not Topic or Grammar
Based
Novice Low – Answer Simple Questions – I
can respond to Yes/ No questions
Novice Mid – Communicate basic info- I
can say or write something abut friends
Novice High – Make Plans – I can exchange
information such as where to go
13. CAN-DO: Speaking Interpersonal
Novice Mid: I can communicate on very familiar topics
using a variety of words or phrases that I have practiced
and memorized.
I can introduce myself and others:
I can introduce myself and provide basic personal
information.
I can introduce someone else.
I can respond to an introduction.
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30. Each proficiency category has several parts
CAN-DO: Speaking Interpersonal
Novice Mid: I can communicate on very familiar topics
using a variety of words or phrases that I have practiced
and memorized.
- I can introduce myself and others:
- I can introduce myself and provide basic personal
information.
- I can introduce someone else.
- I can respond to an introduction.
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31. For Interpersonal Speaking at Novice level
Novice Low - 3 subsections – 5 total statements
Novice Mid - 7 subsections – 25 total statements
Novice High - 5 subsections – 17 total statements
For all of Novice – 47 statements
32. Suggestions:
Assess entering students
(5-10 minutes for them to
self-report on Novice
& Intermediate levels).
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33. Suggestions for how to use Can-Do:
- Use to create final, unit tests, and quizzes.
Name __ Class 101-_ CB1.2 NL1and2, NM1and2
Circle the correct response to the statement.
___1. What is your name?
(A – Well B- Pleased to meet you C- And You?
D- Ana )
34. - Assess where each Can-Do shows up in the textbook
and what might have to be added to or re-arranged in
the textbook.
Novice Mid:
I can answer a variety of questions.
__I can answer questions about what I like and dislike.
Chapter 4.1
__I can answer questions about what I am doing and
what I did. Chapter 7.2
__I can answer questions about where I 'm going and
where I went. Chapter 7.2
__I can answer questions about something I have
learned. Chapter 11.1
35. For the instructor: What Can-Do proficiency do the students
achieve as a result of this lesson?
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36. Set a class year goal such as 85% of Novice.
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37. - Monitor success
85% or your choice of each sub-section = success.
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39. Concerns about Can-Do:
- Novice Mid Level expects students to respond to
past and future tense questions. Assumes teacher
will use advanced language with even beginners.
__I can answer questions about what I am doing and
what I did. (Notice past tense!)
40. Concerns about Can-Do:
- Has little criteria as to how much or how well at
higher levels:
Novice High: I can handle short social interactions in
everyday situations by asking and answering simple
questions.
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41. Concerns about Can-Do:
- Would like official abbreviated codes such as
IP.NM.1.myage
to use in lesson plans and tests instead of having to
write out:
Interpersonal Communication.
Novice Mid.
I can greet and leave people in a polite way.
I can say hello and goodbye to someone my age or
younger.
42. - What Can-Do Statements can your students
do now?
- What Can- Do Statements will they be able to
do by the end of the year?
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