EASC is pleased to offer the ACTFL Chinese Writing Proficiency Guidelines Familiarization Workshop for Chinese language teachers. With the support of the U.S. Department of Education funding for EASC, there will be no cost to the participants for the workshop and parking tokens will be provided for teachers (lunch not included). Note: Limited number of participants, please register early to attend.
Intended as an introduction to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines – Writing, this one-day workshop introduces participants to the major and minor level descriptors and the criteria for assigning a global writing proficiency rating. Participants explore a variety of writing tasks across levels of proficiency, evaluate language samples based on the criteria as described in the Guidelines, and design appropriate writing activities and writing assessment prompts at the four major levels.
AGENDA:
- The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines – Writing
- The ACTFL Rating Scale (Writing)
- Assessment Criteria for Writing
- Rating a Writing Sample
- Lunch (on your own)
- Rating Practice
Limited space so register early at: Registration Link
Cost: Workshop free for participants, parking tokens provided for teachers, lunch not included
Flyer_ACTFL2017.pdf
Please note that this workshop is an introduction to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines—Writing. Anyone wishing to become a Writing Proficiency Test (WPT) Rater must attend the two-day WPT Rater Training Workshop, which is offered by ACTFL.
Questions: Please contact Janet Stucky Smith, East Asian Studies Center at stucky.7@osu.edu
Co-sponsors: East Asian Studies Center (EASC) and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant
