NCSSFL-ACTFL CAN-DO STATEMENTS: PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNERS © 2017 1
NOVICE
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INTERMEDIATE
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ADVANCED
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SUPERIOR
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DISTINGUISHED
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COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION
INTERPRETIVE
I can identify the general topic and
some basic information in both very
familiar and everyday contexts by
recognizing practiced or memorized
words, phrases, and simple sentences in
texts that are spoken, written, or signed.
I can understand the main idea and
some pieces of information on familiar
topics from sentences and series of
connected sentences within texts that are
spoken, written, or signed.
I can understand the main message
and supporting details on a wide
variety of familiar and general interest
topics across various time frames from
complex, organized texts that are
spoken, written, or signed.
I can interpret and infer meaning from
complex, academic and professional
texts on a range of unfamiliar,
abstract, and specialized issues that
are spoken, written, or signed.
I can interpret and infer meaning
from dense, structurally sophisticated
texts on a wide range of global issues
and highly abstract concepts, with
deeply embedded cultural references
and colloquialisms and dialects that
are spoken, written, or signed.
INTERPRETIVE
INTERPERSONAL
I can communicate in spontaneous
spoken, written, or signed conversations
on both very familiar and everyday
topics, using a variety of practiced or
memorized words, phrases, simple
sentences, and questions.
I can participate in spontaneous spoken,
written, or signed conversations on
familiar topics, creating sentences and
series of sentences to ask and answer a
variety of questions.
I can maintain spontaneous spoken,
written, or signed conversations and
discussions across various time frames
on familiar, as well as unfamiliar,
concrete topics, using series of
connected sentences and probing
questions.
I can participate fully and effectively
in spontaneous spoken, written,
or signed discussions and debates
on issues and ideas ranging from
broad general interests to my areas
of specialized expertise, including
supporting arguments and exploring
hypotheses.
I can interact, negotiate, and debate
on a wide range of global issues
and highly abstract concepts, fully
adapting to the cultural context of the
conversation, using spoken, written, or
signed language.
INTERPERSONAL
PRESENTATIONAL
I can present information on both very
familiar and everyday topics using a
variety of practiced or memorized words,
phrases, and simple sentences through
spoken, written, or signed language.
I can communicate information, make
presentations, and express my thoughts
about familiar topics, using sentences
and series of connected sentences
through spoken, written, or signed
language.
I can deliver detailed and organized
presentations on familiar as well
as unfamiliar concrete topics, in
paragraphs and using various time
frames through spoken, written, or
signed language.
I can deliver extended presentations
on abstract or hypothetical issues and
ideas ranging from broad general
interests to my areas of specialized
expertise, with precision of expression
and to a wide variety of audiences,
using spoken, written, or signed
language.
I can deliver sophisticated and
articulate presentations on a wide
range of global issues and highly
abstract concepts, fully adapting to the
cultural context of the audience, using
spoken, written, or signed language.
PRESENTATIONAL
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
INVESTIGATE
In my own and other cultures I can
identify products and practices to help
me understand perspectives.
In my own and other cultures I can
make comparisons between products
and practices to help me understand
perspectives.
In my own and other cultures
I can explain some diversity among
products and practices and how it
relates to perspectives.
In my own and other cultures I can
suspend judgment while critically
examining products, practices, and
perspectives.
In my own and other cultures I can
objectively evaluate products and
practices and mediate perspectives.
INVESTIGATE
INTERACT
I can interact at a survival level in some
familiar everyday contexts.
I can interact at a functional level in
some familiar contexts.
I can interact at a competent level in
familiar and some unfamiliar contexts.
I can interact in complex situations
to ensure a shared understanding of
culture.
I can engage with complexity and
pluricultural identities and serve as
a mediator between and among
cultures.
INTERACT
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