OSEA Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology
OSEA EVALUATION of APPLICANT'S SPANISH PROFICIENCY
STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS. This form should be filled out by an appropriate teacher, professor or instructor of Spanish who has had significant experience evaluating your levels of proficiency and competency of Spanish speaking, listening, writing and reading.
DEAR COLLEAGUE, Thank you for taking the time to complete this Spanish language evaluation of this student. We appreciate your efforts to assess the persons' abilities. She or he will be participating in a Field Study Abroad, a Teaching English Service Learning, or an Intensive Spanish Language Immersion Program that OSEA conducts in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. We ask for you to help us understand his or her actual communicative competencies. This information is crucial for us to be able to provide appropriate level of instruction to improve the students proficiencies. Thank you.
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Assessment. Section A. Overall Evaluation
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Assessment. Section B. Questionnaire
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Assessment. Section B. Questionnaire
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Contact Information of Person Completing Form
Student Information
Name of Student whose Spanish proficiency is being evaluated
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Student's Email
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Capacity in which you know applicant
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How long have you known the applicant?
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On what basis are you assessing the students competencies?
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The student has recently taken courses with me and I am familiar with their abilities
I have conducted a brief evaluation according to our departmental protocols for these types of requests for language evaluation
ASSESSMENT. Section A.
Please assess the applicant’s overall Spanish proficiency in the following areas:
Please characterize the Student's Spanish fluency as:
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First language, native speaker fluency
Bilingual native speaker of Spanish and another language; native fluency
"Heritage Speaker" /Second Language-- uneven fluency
Non-Native Speaker of Spanish, learned in school not at home
Speaking Ability
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Can contribute to simple conversations at a basic level
Can speak the language at a normal conversational pace, but with many errors
Can speak the language at a sophisticated level with few errors
Can speak the language fluently and virtually without error
Reading Comprehension
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Can read simple texts with the aid of a dictionary
Can read newspaper/magazine articles with the aid of a dictionary
Can read most texts without a dictionary
Can read an academic article with the aid of dictionary
Can read an academic without the aid of a dictionary
Listening Comprehension
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Can understand simple conversation at a basic level
Can understand the language when spoken at a normal conversational pace
Capable of understanding most of film or television broadcast
Capable of understanding a university lecture
Writing Ability
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Writes at a beginner’s level
Can write simple texts with the aid of a dictionary, with occasional grammatical errors
Can write texts of intermediate complexity with good use of vocabulary with the aid of a dictionary
Can write at the level of a university student
Please describe what you feel are the areas of oral communication that the applicant's learning should focus on in the immediate future.
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