Tools For Spanish Language Learning - Track Your Progress
Process Option 01 - " Benchmark Your Start "
- When you are sailing on a calm day it is hard to see if you are moving...so spit in the water and watch if you move. Keeping earlier work samples helps.
- The lower your start the better you will make out, because it is always easier to go from 0% to 50% than from 95% to 100%.
Process Option 03 - "Use Rules Of Thumb"
- Describe on Resume ideas - on StackExchange site
- Survey Monkey site questions Check out what surveyors use as assessment grouping clues
- how does one assess it in others a discussion on Language surfer site - speaks of European system
Process Option 04 - "Check Out the Systems In Use"
CERFL System (European)
- CEFRLWiki on the European System
- Benny Lewis on CEFRLCertificates with no classes needed - tests
- Spanish Test
- 6 levels - ABC each 1 and 2 Council of Europe site
- Levels
- Description
- placement Enforex site
- online placement testLengelia site
- levels explained and compared Study link site
- levels on Language level site
- Explanation of Irish Benchmarks (European system)
- Habla's 6 Spanish Levels (European system) With courses tied to each level - Habla site - With a chart comparing the different systems of grading
- Bernie Lewis uses this system.A blog posting on his site.
Canadian Levels System
- Canadian language levels for official languages
- Canadian levels 4 - oral and written
- Canadian testing
- Civil Service explanation
- Test guide
- Canadian Language Benchmarks
- Language Requirements Skilled Immigrants
- language fairness in Canada
- Can Do SiteAn Excellent graphic presentation of Canadian Benchmarks for the 4 basic skills in Spanish.
- Wiki on Canadian Benchmarks system
- Samples of people at different levels Speaking and Writing
- Exemplars PDF os CLB benchmark work at different levels
- Self Test CLB based
University Level Lnguage Skills
- CAEL University test
- list of other tests used
- Concordia's minimum by various tests
- UofT Graduate Studies Levels
- Ontario Colleges Guide For International Students
- List of U's with no test After school africa site item
- Open U -Britain no formal test - be able to cope
Process Option 05 - "Check out Local School Curriculum Guides "
Manitoba
- online self test
- 2-Way immersion - Spanish - Center for Applied Linguistics archived site with links - Language Arts in Both Spanish and English
- Alberta's Spanish Benchmark system for schools A PDF
Process Option 06-"Take A Test"
- There are often test guides which can give a benchmark sometimes they have samples of what is expected at different levels.
- Do pre-exam exercises Get familiar with what is being tested for, in order to be fairly tested.
- Canadian Benchmark Test - Spanish A guide to understanding your results
- Online Test multiple languages - on Transparent Language Site
- British Council TestsThey suggest you check and take the right exam
- English preposition testsgood if using Ogden's "Basic" system, or adapting it to the target language
- test and test making platform online english
Process Option 07- "Ask Someone"
- Language Proficiency vs. preference A study on this issue adnd its relevance, on NCBI (medical) site
- How to Determine your language proficiency A linked in piece
Process Option 08- Check The Standards from Other Language Systems for ideas
- Calgary Immegrant Services -English Benchmarks
- Manitoba EAL
- EAL framework
- World Languages Benchmarks On the Mich1gan Dept of Ed site - a PDF
- ACTFL descriptors For performance (in a school setting) and Proficiency (in real world setting) - American Council For The Teaching of Foreign Languages
- CLUBOSA test for English as a Second Language Based On Canadian Benchmark System - online test
- Lamp's self assessment levelsa system for "can do this, plus the new level" with a click. The link is on this explanatory page
- PDF of Lamp's checklist of the above clickthrough
Process Option 09- Check Out Curriculum Guides from Other Language Systems for Ideas
- English Language Arts
- French curriculum
- French Language for English Students
- French Immersion Program
Process Option 10 - Check Out Resources Online for Teachers of various programs for ideas
- Spanish-English Literacy resources For Teachers
- a set of "can do" informal checks for student levels On the WIDA site
Process Option 11- Check Out Citizenship Requirements re: "Language" for ideas
Process Option 12- Check Out Dictionary Definitions Relating to Language Acquisition for Ideas
- Routeledge Spanish-English Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry
Process Option 12 - Consider creating a Language portfolio like the European Language Protfolios
- A piece on it Document considering Candadians using he European system owing to increased movement of people ELP is desribed at teh end of the document.
- ELP homepage
- ELP on council of Europe site
- Junior version PDF on pbworks site
- ELP guidelines for 15+
- Primary guidelineson ncca site - Ireland
- ImagesGoogle for ELP
- ELP described On language portfolio site
- Book of articles on the concept and evaluating it
- Adapted to Immigrants and Refugees
- Finish evaluation projectReport of findings - pedagogical significance of ELP use
- Japanese use of the toolon Nagasaki JALT site
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