My journey spiraled me into a different world and I want to note some helpful resources out there. Obvi, there are GREAT bloggers, but I felt that I had to do some "research" type digging. Okay, research is the wrong word, but I needed some formal investigating.
Identifying the different proficiency levels is not as black and white as we'd like it to be.
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spt/
Spanish Corpus & Proficiency Level Training (SPT) Website
Here you will find video recordings of Spanish learners of different levels answering several questions, a written transcript of what they say, and exercises that will guide you interactively to notice features about their talk, as well as answers to those exercises. The purpose of the site is to learn to evaluate Spanish proficiency levels. You can access a Spanish corpus of beginner to advanced learners of Spanish.
I've shared these with my students throughout the year and find them to be helpful in recognizing areas that they can aim for in their proficiency. When they compare different levels, they recognize the pauses, the pronunciation and the sheer quantity. That's a big one for me...don't give up but show off as much as you can in order to grown on the proficiency scale.
Now that you are teaching for proficiency....are you assessing proficiency?
Changing your units is work. If you think about how to assess proficiency, you need to create opportunities for that. The ACTFL IPA (intergrated performance assessment) model is amazing....but again....go see some examples to inspire!
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