| Body | This activity invites learners to consider their own proficiency levels and draws them to make connections between language proficiency and proficiency in other activities in the surrounding world. While it can be used at any level, it was designed with beginning users in mind.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify their own (ACTFL) proficiency level
- Set a long-term language proficiency goal for themselves
Mode(s): Interpretive, Interpersonal
Materials: language proficiency overview video, handout
Procedure:
- Introduce learners to the idea of language proficiency using this overview video. Pause the video when the LinguaFolio graphic is shared (around 1:11) so that the learners can do a quick self-evaluation of where they are in their language study. Ask learners what they selected and why. Next, ask them to document what proficiency level they would like to ultimately achieve.
- Next, provide learners with the handout. In groups of 3-4, they will use the handout to consider the brief descriptions of each language proficiency level and to write their own descriptions for a different activity of their choice (e.g., playing a specific sport, developing skill in a performance art).
- On the same handout, learners will document the effort that one must undertake to progress from one level to the next level of the activity they chose in Step 2.
- Next, as a class, have learners consider what they think language learning will entail. The teacher will guide the discussion and supplement language strategies when appropriate.
- Finally, learners will revisit the long-term goal they documented in Step 1. On an exit ticket, they will share their goal with the teacher and will write a brief overview of how they intend to achieve the goal.
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