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I plan to study effective ways to increase student use of the target language in class, because I want to find out how to get students to show more development in their speaking proficiency, so that I may better understand how to increase overall student communication.

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ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

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Welcome to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012 online. Here you will find the most current version of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines for Speaking, Writing, Listening, and Reading made interactive through the inclusion of glossed terms and multimedia exemplars.

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american council on the teaching of foreign language

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Learn more about the ACTFL proficiency scale here.

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- What teaching approach is more effective in speaking proficiency?
- How can I track data for all levels without a standard group (because I do not have more than one hour of most sections of French)?
- How do I create a standard group?
- Do I need to ask for consent to track student data when I am already required to do that for student growth goal information?
- Do I use speaking projects or assignments (such as formative assessments) to track student skills or do I track all student displays in the target language?

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- It is difficult to find recent research on second language acquisition.
- How to gauge student proficiency progress while ignoring biases.
- Creating a base activity to find each student's starting level of proficiency.
- I am having a difficult time finding research that doesn't support project-based learning or comprehensible input.
- How do I track proficiency of students who are quiet or nervous to speak in class?
- How can I get students to actively use their language skill in the classroom?
- What can make them motivated to speak more often?

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- Bill VanPatten has multiple texts referencing second language acquisition.
- Stephen Krashen has multiple texts referencing second language acquisition.
- Most research is leading toward project-based learning or comprehensible input.