Speakers are engaged in conversation and exchange of information, while being spontaneous.
The novice is still acquiring concrete vocabulary in context and using contextualized vocabulary in short conversations and oral presentations.
Speakers use their linguistic energy to sustain the level, although they struggle to do so. Performance might be uneven.
ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
ACTFL. (n.d.). Retrieved January 29, 2018, from https://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/actfl-proficiency-guidelines-2012
When the novice speaker is asked to perform at a higher level, he/she resort to repetition and/or native language, as well as silence.
The mid novice speakers might still be difficult to understand.
Speaker pauses frequently while searing for vocabulary and reuse words of the interlocutor or their own used words.
When responding to questions they say two or three words at a time and/or give a stock answer.
Novice mid level communicate using isolated words and memorized phrases limited by context of language learned.
Speakers at the novice level communicate
short messages on highly predictable, every-
day topics that affect them direectly.
World Readiness Standards
Shrum, J. L., & Glisan, E. W. (2005). Teachers handbook: contextualized language instruction. Southbank, Victoria, Australia: Thomson, Heinle.
Comprehensibility might be difficult to understand, even for speakers used to listening to non-native speakers.
The context is mostly in common and informal settings, such as in the aspects of daily life.
Speaker can communicate with formulaic and rote utterancess and produce words, phrases and lists.
Speakers interact and negotiate meaning in spoken conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
Can-Do Proficiency Benchmarks
ACTFL. (2017). Retrieved January 30, 2018, from https://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements
The novice mid speaker can express his/her own preferences and feelings, as well as reacting to others, when reacting to opinions and supporting preferences in converstions.
The novice speaker can express basic needs to familiar activities when addressing situations and needs.
The novice speaker can request and provide information by asking and answering simple questions when exchanging information and ideas in conversation.
Speaker at the novice level can identify basic facts during conversation and discussion such as memorized words and phrases during conversation.
Speakers at the novice level can communicate in spontaneous spoken conversations on very familiar and everyday topics, while using practiced,and memorized words, phrases, simple sentences and questions.
