1.

Proficiency Levels

1.1 Beginning

1.2 Intermediate

1.3 Advanced
2. Definition of proficiency levels
2.1 ACTFL proficiency Guidllines

2.2 FSI Levels / ILR levels

2.3 FSI oral Interview

2.3.1 Pronunciation

2.3.2 Fluence and integrative ability

2.3.3 Sociolinguistic and Cultural

Knowledge

2.3.4 Grammar
 3. Teaching beginning levels
3.1 Beginners and false Beginners

3.2 Language is not taught directly

3.3 Factors that help to teaching beginners

3.3.1 Coax the students to use practiced

language for genuinely meaningful purposes

3.3.2 Have the control of classroom and

eep the students interested

3.3.3 Talk an articulated, clearly English, using

simple vocabulary
 3.3.4 Use simple greetins and introductions, and
use short and simple phrases

3.3.5 Focus on particular gramatical, phonolical

or
discourse elements

3.3.6 Stimulate students to be creative within

their
repertoire of language

3.3.7 Use mechanical techniques like choral

repetition and other driling, and give group or pair
activities;

3.3.8 Focus on listenining and speaking goals that

are
meaningful and authentic communication tasks for
 3.3.10 Use native language when all the students
speak the same native language to explain gramatical
points and use English in the classroom when it is in
ESL situations
 4. Teaching Intermediate
Levels
4.1. Factors that help to teaching intermediate
students

4.1.1 Get students to continue to automatize,

to continue to allow the bit and pieces of language
that might clutter the mind to be relegated to
automaticity

4.1.2 Don’t set equal expectations for all

students, however, since abilities, especially
speaking abilities, can very widely

4.1.3 Give students enough opportunity to

talk
 4.1.5 Get students over the hump of always
having to say or write everything absolutely correctly

4.1.6 Become more capable now of apllying their

classroom language to unrehearsed situations “out
there”

4.1.7 Interative techniques for intermediates

4.1.8 Participate in short conversations, ask and

answer questions, find alternative ways to convey
meaning, solicit information from other, and more.

4.1.9 Read paragraphs, short, simple stories and

use skimming and scanning skill

4.1.10 Keep gramatical metalanguage to na ideal

minimum at this level
 5. Teaching Advanced Levels
5.1 Factors that help to teaching intermediate students

5.1.1 Focus on interpretation and negotiation of

meaning and to the conveying of thoughts and feelings
in interactive communication

5.1.2 Directive role on your part can create

effective learning opportunities even within a
predominantly learner-centered classroom

5.1.3 Resort to a word or two in the native

language in order to help a student who is “stuck”

5.1.4 Restrictions may come to bear, depending

on how advance your class is, of course.
 5.1.5 Pay attencion in errors and in producing or
comprehending than words or structure

5.1.6 Keep their eyes fixed on the goals and be

ever wary of classroom activity that simply ends
right there in the classroom

5.1.7 Focus on those purpose as much as

possible

5.1.8 Focus more carefully on all the

sociolinguistic nuances os language

5.1.9 Help to have a critical reading and

interpreting written texts and writting a document
as native speaker

5.1.10 Don’t need become saturated with