Example: Using comparisons and contrasts to test your listening proficiency

One way to test your listening proficiency is to ask someone to compare and contrast two objects or persons, while you note the important points of similarity or difference.

• Use this technique if you think you might be Advanced Proficiency.

• You think you might be at Advanced level so you ask a speaker of the language to choose two things or people to compare or contrast.
• Listen and note the important points of similarity or difference.
• Tell the speaker later what you thought were the main points of comparison or contrast, and see if he or she agrees.
• Reread the description of the different levels of listening proficiency in the ACTFL guidelines.
• Decide as honestly as possible which guideline level matches your performance.

• Example of task module: Example: Using comparisons and contrasts to test y...
• In task module: Testing your listening proficiency
• In task module: Testing your language proficiency
• In task module: Checking your progress
• In task module: How to manage your language learning program
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

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