ACTFL guidelines: Listening

ACTFL guidelines: Listening--Novice

Novice-Low
	Understanding is limited to occasional isolated words, such as cognates, borrowed words, and high-frequency social conventions. Essentially no ability to comprehend even short utterances.

Novice-Mid

Able to understand some short, learned utterances, particularly where context strongly supports understanding and speech is clearly audible. Comprehends some words and phrases from simple questions, statements, high-frequency commands and courtesy formulae about topics that refer to basic personal information or the immediate physical setting. The listener requires long pauses for assimilation and periodically requests repetition and/or a slower rate of speech.

Novice-High
	Able to understand short, learned utterances and some sentence-length utterances, particularly where context strongly supports understanding and speech is clearly audible. Comprehends words and phrases from simple questions, statements, high-frequency commands, and courtesy formulae. May require repetition, rephrasing, and/or a slowed rate of speech for comprehension.

See also
	Reaching high novice listening proficiency

Context for this page:

Generic module: ACTFL guidelines: Listening--Novice
In overview module: ACTFL guidelines: Listening
In modular book: ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, by American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages
In document collection: Other Resources
In bookshelf: Language Learning

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