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FSI’s Arabic Speaking Test Model

FSI’s Arabic Speaking Test Model. Choice-based approach ECOLT November 2-3, 2012. FSI’s Examinee Population. Second language learners Examinees who learned Arabic elsewhere FSI-trained Examinees with language skills enhanced at post. FSI’s OLD Test Format T wo P rotocols.

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FSI’s Arabic Speaking Test Model

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  1. FSI’s Arabic Speaking Test Model Choice-based approach ECOLT November 2-3, 2012

  2. FSI’s Examinee Population • Second language learners • Examinees who learned Arabic elsewhere • FSI-trained Examinees with language skills enhanced at post

  3. FSI’s OLD Test FormatTwoProtocols • Interactive • Separate MSA test protocol • Separate dialect test protocol

  4. OLD FSI’s Test Challenges • Define boundaries (MSA/Dialect) • Establish boundaries between various dialects • Establish a system of credits and penalties based on use of MSA or dialect

  5. FSI’s NEW Test Format One Protocol • Interactive • Integrated but flexible • One protocol for both MSA and dialect • Based on examinee’s choice of dialect

  6. Precepts of Arabic Use • Arabic: one continuum • Examinee: choice of dialect • Yardstick: highly articulate well-educated native speaker • Meaning: negotiated • Audience: defines language interaction

  7. Arabic Language Formal Arabic Colloquial Arabic (informal) Classical Arabic Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Colloquial of the Educated Colloquial of the Enlightened Colloquial of the Illiterate

  8. Examinee’s Choice Test Choice Register Choice MSA Egyptian Arabic Iraqi Arabic Moroccan Arabic Sudanese Arabic Syrian Arabic, etc. Situation (conference, formal speech, birthday party, interview, shopping…) Audience (doctors, judges, journalists, street vendors, farmers…) Topic Type of message

  9. Yardstick (Highly Articulate Well-Educated Native Speaker) • Speaks formal and informal Arabic • Moves naturally between the two • Selects register based on audience, topic, situation, and message

  10. Negotiated Meaning • Pure MSA • Dialect • Blended Arabic (MSA/Dialect mix) • Mix of multiple dialects (rare)

  11. Outcome Natural interaction regardless of the Arabic variant.

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