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SECOND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION

SPANISH

When? 

June

Description of Exam: 

Part 1A:    Informal Speaking

 Part 1B:    Formal Speaking

Part 2A:  Listening questions in English
     

10 points

20 points

10 points

Part 2B:  Listening questions in
              target language

10 points

Part 2C:  Listening answer in pictures
             

10 points

Part 3:    Reading
              *6 realia with 
                questions in English
              *4 realia with
                 questions in Spanish

12 points
 8 points

Part 4:    Writing
              2 notes 30 words

5 points
5 points

Total Points:

100 points

Part I: SPEAKING TEST (30 points)

Part 1a
(10 points)
Graded throughout the school year

*  assessment of student performance in daily classroom activities from February 1 until five days prior to the date of the written exam.
A new rubric has been designed to help teachers in the assessment of the students' performance.

Part 1b
(20 points)
Given starting April 1st and finished before the written test.

*  Students must perform a total of four communication tasks randomly selected from a bank of 20 topics per communication function:  socializing, providing and obtaining information, expressing opinions or personal opinions, and persuading others to adopt a course of action.

*  Each task consists of a brief statement in English to indicate the purpose and the setting of the communication, the role of the teacher, and the person who is to initiate the conversation.

*  For each task, the student must complete four utterances or statements.  As the conversation partner, the teacher may make two attempts at eliciting each of the four student utterances.  If the student produces no comprehensible and appropriate utterance after the teacher's first two eliciting attempts at the beginning of the conversation, the student receives no credit for the entire task.  However, once the conversation has begun, if a student produces no comprehensible or appropriate response after the teacher's second eliciting attempt, the student merely receives no credit for that utterance.

*  The teacher gives a maximum of 5 credits for each task according to the following criteria::
      **Student receives 1 point for each of the four student utterances that is comprehensible and appropriate.
    ** Student is awarded  1 credit for the quality of all four comprehensible and appropriate student utterances.  Quality means overall fluency, complexity, and accuracy within the scope of Checkpoint A proficiency statement in State syllabus.

SAMPLE TOPIC: 

[Student Initiates]  Teacher says:  I am your friend.  You have invited me to your home to watch television.  We will discuss which show to watch.  You start the conversation.

No Credit Responses:

*  yes/no responses
*  restatements of all or essential parts of what teacher has said.
*  proper names used in isolation
*  socializing devices (Hello, How are you, etc.) used in isolation.

PART II:  LISTENING COMPREHENSION (40 points)

Part 2a
20 points

*  10 short listening passages in the target language read by teacher with multiple choice questions in English.

Part 2b
10 points

*  5 short listening passages in the target language read by teacher with multiple choice questions in target language.

Part 2c
10 points

*  5 short listening passages in the target language read by teacher with questions in English and with multiple choice answers in picture format.

PART III:  READING TEST (20 points)

Part 3a
12 points

*  6 reading selections based on authentic material with multiple choice questions in English.

Part 3b
8 points

*  4 reading selections based on authentic material with multiple choice questions in the target language.

PART IV:  WRITING TEST (10 points)

Part 4

*  Students will write two notes out of three choices, each one worth 5 points.  The composition will be evaluated based on a word count and a rubric having four categories (purpose or task/vocabulary/ structure/word count) based on a scale of 1 to 4.

Word Count Guidelines

* Places and brand names from the target culture count; all other places (K-Mart) and brand names (Coke, Pepsi) are disregarded. 

* Contractions are one word.

*Salutations and closings in notes written in the target language are counted.  (There is no penalty if students do not use salutations or closings.)

*  Commonly used abbreviations in target language are counted.

English

Spanish

Nueva York = 2 words 

La Universidad de Salamanca = 4 words

Juan = 0 words

And how it is scored

And how it is scored