Our latest version of our original in-person OPI Familiarization Workshop, this course covers all that content and more, in a flexible online format, worth 12 professional development contact hours!
The asynchronous, module-based delivery allows you to complete the course anytime, anywhere, and at your own pace. Your access extends for a full 6 months, providing you with plenty of time to both finish the course and obtain your certificate, as well as go back and review the resources and content as many times as you’d like.
Why take this course?
It gives you a foundational understanding for ACTFL’s flagship assessment, the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI), and helps you integrate the concepts and structure behind this assessment into your day-to-day instructional practices. These applications of the OPI enable you to create a proficiency-based classroom where your learners continually “level up” their language ability.
What will you be able to do upon completing the course?
- Introduce and define the concept of proficiency.
- Differentiate between the major ACTFL proficiency levels and their sublevels.
- Describe typical linguistic features of each of the major ACTFL speaking levels.
- Describe the different ACTFL speaking assessment criteria for each major level.
- Describe the structure of the ACTFL OPI.
- Identify effective techniques for eliciting a language sample.
- Apply the assessment criteria to language samples.
Align your teaching methods with research-backed best practices based on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and the OPI.