Proficiency Guidelines

1. SELF

Give autobiographical information (state name, origin, nationality, age, address, phone number)

Describe daily routines during a typical day

Describe academic majors, courses, career plans

2. OTHERS

Describe self and identify others, including family members, friends, roommates, classmates (physical description, personality)

Describe the way people and things are and used to be

Give an extended description of self and others in the present, past, and future time frames

3. ACTIVITIES

List daily activities and tell about likes and dislikes

List past activities of self and others

Narrate and describe events in the present, past and future

4. NUMBERS

Count from 0 to 100 and use numbers in giving information about self and others (e.g., age, address, phone numbers)

Count from 100-? and use numbers in describing people and things (e.g., giving the date, naming prices)

Use large numbers in situational contexts (e.g., making purchases, exchanging money)

5. ELICITING INFORMATION

Obtain biographical information about others by asking questions about name, age, origin, etc.

Obtain information about present and past activities and routines of others

Participate in conversations by asking questions to negotiate meaning and elicit additional information

6. SURVIVAL SITUATIONS

Respond to typical survival situations with words/short phrases (e.g., ordering food from a menu)

Successfully participate in simple survival situations without complications (e.g., buying a bus ticket, getting a hotel room)

Successfully participate in survival situations with complications (e.g., reporting lost luggage, sending food back in a restaurant)