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When? |
Proficiency Exams
in French and Spanish are offered in
June during Regents Exam Week.
MONDAY,
JUNE 22, 2009 |
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Description of Exam: |
Part 1A:
Informal Speaking
Part 1B: Formal Speaking
Part 2A: Listening questions in English
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10 points |
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20 points |
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10 points |
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Part 2B: Listening
questions in
target language |
10 points |
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Part 2C: Listening
answer in pictures
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10 points |
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Part 3: Reading
*6 realia with
questions in English
*4 realia with
questions in Spanish
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12 points
8 points |
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Part 4: Writing
2 notes 30 words |
5 points
5 points |
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Total Points: |
100 points |
Part I: SPEAKING TEST (24 points)
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Part 1a
(10 points)
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* 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)
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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:
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[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:
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* 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)
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Part 2a
20 points
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* 10 short
listening passages in the target
language read by teacher with multiple
choice questions in English. |
Part 2b
10 points
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* 5 short
listening passages in the target
language read by teacher with multiple
choice questions in target language. |
Part 2c
10 points
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* 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)
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Part 3a
12 points
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* 6 reading
selections based on authentic material
with multiple choice questions in
English. |
Part 3b
8 points
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* 4 reading
selections based on authentic material
with multiple choice questions in the
target language. |
PART IV: WRITING TEST (10 points)
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Part 4
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* 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. |
