SECOND
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
EXAM
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SPANISH
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When? |
Regents Exams in all four
languages are offered in June during Regents Exam Week. |
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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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20 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 (20
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 rubic 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. |
