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So what happened at the opi familiarity workshop?

So what happened at the opi familiarity workshop?. At nectfl spring, 2012. WHAT IS IT?. The oral proficiency interview. A face-to-face or telephonic 15-30 minute interview which is recorded . Its objective is to measure consistent functional ability in a language.

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So what happened at the opi familiarity workshop?

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  1. So what happened at the opi familiarity workshop? At nectfl spring, 2012

  2. WHAT IS IT?

  3. The oral proficiency interview

  4. A face-to-face or telephonic 15-30 minute interview which is recorded

  5. Its objective is to measure consistent functional ability in a language

  6. The interviewer strives to elicit ratable speech

  7. The interviewer is looking for global proficiency and the highest level of sustained functionality on the part of the speaker

  8. What are the assessment criteria?

  9. The functions or global tasks the speaker performsthe social contexts and specific content areas in which the speaker is able to perform themthe accuracy (i.e., degree to which the message is understood)the type of oral text or discourse the speaker is capable of producing

  10. How did it come about?

  11. The foreign service institute created it to use with its adult learners

  12. How does it work?

  13. Follows a standardized protocoland is criterion referenced

  14. The Actfl Rating scale

  15. superior Advanced ADVANCED HIGHADVANCED MIDADVANCED LOW Intermediate INTERMEDIATE HIGHINTERMEDIATE MIDINTERMEDIATE LOW Novice NOVICE HIGHNOVICE MIDNOVICE LOW

  16. Who is the novice speaker? The parrot

  17. The novice speaker Uses mostly memorized material and is heavily influenced by l1individual words and phrases

  18. Who is the intermediate speaker? The survivor

  19. The intermediate speaker Creates with the language and uses it in real-life situations

  20. The intermediate speaker combines and re-combines material in real ways

  21. The intermediate speakerasks and answers questions

  22. The intermediate speaker engages other people about the “everyday” and “daily needs”discrete sentences

  23. Who is the advanced speaker? The reporter

  24. The advanced speaker handles situations with complications

  25. The advanced speaker conveys information on a broad range of topics inside a timeframe without perfect control of tensesparagraphs

  26. Who is the superior speaker? The thinker

  27. The superior speaker talks about issues rather than events and can argue a position on these issues

  28. The superior speaker can support opinion, discuss topics both concretely and abstractly and handle a linguistically unfamiliar situation

  29. THE SUPERIOR SPEAKER DOES NOT MAKE many MISTAKES and errors never interfere with communication!Extended discourse

  30. The role of the interviewer

  31. The interviewer listens for what the speaker canNOTdo in order to find the highest level of sustained functionality

  32. The interviewer is not looking for content

  33. The interviewer expands the context of the interview as the speaker moves up the scale

  34. CONTEXT OF THE INTERVIEW

  35. Linguistic breakdown

  36. THE INTERVIEWER ACCEPTS A BROAD RANGE OF RESPONSES AND MUST JUDGE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A “BREAKDOWN” PAUSE AND A “THOUGHTFUL” PAUSE

  37. “I DON’T THINK I CAN TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE TOPIC IS NOT A LINGUISTIC “BREAKDOWN”

  38. If interviewer has to know both languages to understand the speaker, there is linguistic breakdown.

  39. INTERVIEWER RATES SPEAKERS BASED ON THEIR HIGHEST FUNCTIONING: ANYTIME INTERVIEWER ASKS THE SPEAKER TO BE “ADVANCED”, THE RESPONSE IS ALWAYS ADVANCED (There is no a-; only b+ or A)

  40. Balance accuracy and functionality The tree metaphor

  41. Social context and specific content= type of branchesfunctions= tree trunk (global tasks)accuracy= leaves(degree to which message is understood)

  42. Conducting the interview

  43. The warm-up: expect a conversation and build up a data base/topic bank to put the speaker at ease

  44. Find out about the speaker first and then go to natural topics from there

  45. OK If the speaker cannot talk about a particular topic; interviewer chooses anotherdo not pick canned topics; keep up feeling of authentic conversation

  46. level checks: establish the “floor” by targeting the speaker’s level of sustained performance (make speakers “sweat”)

  47. The probes: Establish the “ceiling”

  48. Interviewer ”probes” by targeting one level above the “floor”

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