Self-assessment checklists based on proficiency guidelines

You can use checklists to help you evaluate your proficiency in each of the language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). These checklists include things a person at a given level can typically do in the target language. There are checklists for each of the four basic language skills, with a separate list for reading and writing if you are learning an unwritten or recently-written language.

You can click on any of the items listed below to see the checklist and print it out. You have permission to photocopy the checklists for your own use.

Here are the checklists based on proficiency guidelines:

• Self-assessment checklist for listening

• Self-assessment checklist for speaking

• Self-assessment checklist for reading

• Self-assessment checklist for reading unwritten languages

• Self-assessment checklist for writing

• Self-assessment checklist for writing unwritten languages

It can be hard to have a realistic view of your own ability in a language. Many people overestimate their ability to perform certain tasks, while others underestimate themselves. If you are using these checklists, you may want to talk over your evaluation of yourself with a speaker of the language or a language learning consultant. It would also be a good idea to use other proficiency-testing methods as a check.

• Generic module: Self-assessment checklists based on proficiency gu...
• In overview module: Information to help you check your progress
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 13 August 1998

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