Explains what are NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements are, describes their role in identifying language proficiency and gives suggestions for their use based on author's class experience

1. NCSSFL-ACTFL
Can Do Statements: How
Proficient are Your Students?
by Harry G. Tuttle, Ed. D.
http://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements

2. ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
1986, 1999, 2001, 2012
http://www.aatsp.org/?page=RESOURCPUB

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Objective Assessment Measure

4. Proficiencies described for teachers

5. Search the web for “ACTFL Can Do”
to get the 44 page document or click
http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Can-Do_Statements.pdf
http://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements
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6. Can-Do Statements Include:
- Interpersonal (Person-to-Person)
Communication
- Presentational Speaking (Spoken Production)
- Presentational Writing (Written Production)
- Interpretive Listening
- Interpretive Reading

7. Covers all levels

8. Novice Low – single memorized words/ phrases
Novice Mid - variety of memorized words phrases
Novice High – short social interactions
Intermediate Low -conversations with simple
sentences
Intermediate Mid – conversation using sentences and
a series of sentences
Intermediate High – conversation in various time
frames and with an unexpected complication

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Superior
Advanced
Intermediate
Novice
Spiral Can-Do Proficiency with topics
repeated with different functions.

10. Function Based, not Topic or Grammar
Based
Novice Low – Answer Simple Questions – I
can respond to Yes/ No questions
Novice Mid – Communicate basic info- I
can say or write something abut friends
Novice High – Make Plans – I can exchange
information such as where to go

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Pick one Can-Do area such as Interpersonal
Communication for your starting focus.

12. http://www.councilforeconed.org/resource/common-core-state-standards/
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Can-Do becomes our Common Core

13. CAN-DO: Speaking Interpersonal
Novice Mid: I can communicate on very familiar topics
using a variety of words or phrases that I have practiced
and memorized.
I can introduce myself and others:
I can introduce myself and provide basic personal
information.
I can introduce someone else.
I can respond to an introduction.
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14. http://tsdwlstandards.wikispaces.com/Proficiency-How+is+it+defined%3F++What+are+the+descriptors%3F
9-12
Intermediate
Novice
9-10
7-12
Can-Do Levels reached

15. http://monsieurdoehla.wikispaces.com/file/view/ACTFL+Proficiency+Levels+Overview.pdf

16. Vague
Purpose
Practical
Real World
Skills
General Language Goals → Can -Do

17. Proficiencies described for teachers

18. ...
Can-Do Proficiencies for students, described for
them.

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Focus on what students do, not on what the teacher
does.

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Can-Do guides all modern language learning.

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Can-Do has the same meaning in every state!

22. Does NY State Checkpoint A
mean anything in Georgia?

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Can-Do has the same meaning in every country!

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Can-Do gives a common proficiency language.

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Can-Do transcends individual textbooks,
helps assess textbook.

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Performance based, spontaneous

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28. Language Proficiency?
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NOT
Vocabulary,
grammar

29. Communicative Proficiency!
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30. Each proficiency category has several parts
CAN-DO: Speaking Interpersonal
Novice Mid: I can communicate on very familiar topics
using a variety of words or phrases that I have practiced
and memorized.
- I can introduce myself and others:
- I can introduce myself and provide basic personal
information.
- I can introduce someone else.
- I can respond to an introduction.
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31. For Interpersonal Speaking at Novice level
Novice Low - 3 subsections – 5 total statements
Novice Mid - 7 subsections – 25 total statements
Novice High - 5 subsections – 17 total statements
For all of Novice – 47 statements

32. Suggestions:
Assess entering students
(5-10 minutes for them to
self-report on Novice
& Intermediate levels).
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33. Suggestions for how to use Can-Do:
- Use to create final, unit tests, and quizzes.
Name __ Class 101-_ CB1.2 NL1and2, NM1and2
Circle the correct response to the statement.
___1. What is your name?
(A – Well B- Pleased to meet you C- And You?
D- Ana )

34. - Assess where each Can-Do shows up in the textbook
and what might have to be added to or re-arranged in
the textbook.
Novice Mid:
I can answer a variety of questions.
__I can answer questions about what I like and dislike.
Chapter 4.1
__I can answer questions about what I am doing and
what I did. Chapter 7.2
__I can answer questions about where I 'm going and
where I went. Chapter 7.2
__I can answer questions about something I have
learned. Chapter 11.1

35. For the instructor: What Can-Do proficiency do the students
achieve as a result of this lesson?
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36. Set a class year goal such as 85% of Novice.
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37. - Monitor success
85% or your choice of each sub-section = success.
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38. Award Can-Do Certificates at each part of each level.

39. Concerns about Can-Do:
- Novice Mid Level expects students to respond to
past and future tense questions. Assumes teacher
will use advanced language with even beginners.
__I can answer questions about what I am doing and
what I did. (Notice past tense!)

40. Concerns about Can-Do:
- Has little criteria as to how much or how well at
higher levels:
Novice High: I can handle short social interactions in
everyday situations by asking and answering simple
questions.
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41. Concerns about Can-Do:
- Would like official abbreviated codes such as
IP.NM.1.myage
to use in lesson plans and tests instead of having to
write out:
Interpersonal Communication.
Novice Mid.
I can greet and leave people in a polite way.
I can say hello and goodbye to someone my age or
younger.

42. - What Can-Do Statements can your students
do now?
- What Can- Do Statements will they be able to
do by the end of the year?
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Modern Languages Speaking Activities
- Multiple Sentence Visual Board Game (no words, just drawings)
- Role Playing 10 frame stories- city, beach, restaurant, school
- Spontaneous Speaking Visual Game
Spanish spontaneous speaking activities (25+)
- Structured Speaking (Students substitute in or select words to
communicate in pairs),
- Modified Speed Dating (Students ask one question from a card-
whole class),
- In-depth Speed Dating (Students ask their partners 10 questions
about each part of the topic),
- Speaking Mats (Students talk using a wide variety of nouns,
verbs and adjectives to express their ideas- pairs or SG)
- Spontaneous Speaking (Students talk based on visuals or topics
in pairs),
- Grammar speaking games (pairs or small group).

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Eye on Education
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Based on ACTFL Proficiencies
Has a way to assess the
speaking of all students in your
classroom in 3 minutes.
Identifies 15+ language functions
For each language function,
provides 10+ strategies for
students to use to improve.
Help your students go from
crawlers to runners in their target
language speaking.

47. Harry Grover Tuttle, Ed. D. htuttlebs@gmail.com
Modern Language Proficiency: Can-Do Strategies and 90
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/HarryGTuttle
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