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certifiesthat
NICHOLAS D MEYERS
TestType
TestDate
Language
12/02/2009
Spanish
has successfully completed an ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and has been
rated, using ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines - Speaking, as
Intermediate High
DirectorofProfessionalPrograms
DateIssued12/13/2009
LTI-TheACTFLTestingOffice
IntermediateHigh-ACTFLProficiencyGuidelines-Speaking(1999)
IntermediateHigh
Intermediate-Highspeakersareabletoconversewitheaseandconfidencewhendealingwith
mostroutinetasksandsocialsituationsoftheIntermediatelevel.Theyareabletohandle
successfullymanyuncomplicatedtasksandsocialsituationsrequiringanexchangeofbasic
informationrelatedtowork,school,recreation,particularinterestsandareasofcompetence,
thoughhesitationanderrorsmaybeevident.
Intermediate-HighspeakershandlethetaskspertainingtotheAdvancedlevel,buttheyare
unabletosustainperformanceatthatleveloveravarietyoftopics.Withsomeconsistency,
speakersattheIntermediateHighlevelnarrateanddescribeinmajortimeframesusing
connecteddiscourseofparagraphlength.However,theirperformanceoftheseAdvanced-level
taskswillexhibitoneormorefeaturesofbreakdown,suchasthefailuretomaintainthe
narrationordescriptionsemanticallyorsyntacticallyintheappropriatemajortimeframe,the
disintegrationofconnecteddiscourse,themisuseofcohesivedevises,areductioninbreadthand
appropriatenessofvocabulary,thefailuretosuccessfullycircumlocute,orasignificantamount
ofhesitation.
Intermediate-Highspeakerscangenerallybeunderstoodbynativespeakersunaccustomedto
dealingwithnon-natives,althoughthedominantlanguageisstillevident(e.g.useof
code-switching,falsecognates,literaltranslations,etc.),andgapsincommunicationmayoccur.