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From https://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements

Last January Ruta Couet and Jacqueline Van Houten discussed upcoming revision of the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements, an immensely valuable tool for goal-setting and self-assessment in language learning (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/22433). Last week the new 2017 version was released. This document (or collection of documents formatted for different uses) is the result of collaboration between the National Council of State Supervisors for Languages (NCSSFL) and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). It serves to help language learners identify and set language learning goals and chart their progress towards language and intercultural proficiency, to help educators write communication learning targets for curriculum, unit and lesson plans, and to help stakeholders clarify how well learners at different stages can communicate.

The new version reduces the number of modes from five to three, groups performance indicators into broad categories under each proficiency benchmark in a given mode, provides representative but diverse examples of Can-Do statements for each performance indicator, and introduces intercultural communication benchmarks. 

Learn more and access the new Can-Do Statements at https://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements