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Model Standards Listening Skill
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| Beginning Literacy |
| Demonstrate understanding of simple words, phrases, and questions drawn from familiar material such as personal information or the immediate physical setting |
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| Demonstrate understanding of high-frequency commands and expressions of courtesy |
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| Beginning – Low |
| Demonstrate comprehension of simple words in context of common, everyday situations |
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| Demonstrate comprehension of basic commands through physical action |
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| Demonstrate understanding of simple face-to-face conversations using previously learned material |
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| Demonstrate strategies to check for understanding – clarifying by attempting to reproduce what has been heard, for example |
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| Respond appropriately to short emergency warnings |
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| Beginning – High |
| Demonstrate understanding of simple words and phrases drawn from learned topics |
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| Identify the main topic of conversation in familiar material |
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| Demonstrate understanding of non-face-to-face speech in familiar contexts, such as simple phone conversations and routine announcements |
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| Recognize words that signal differences between present, past, and future events |
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| Respond appropriately to short emergency warnings |
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| Intermediate – Low |
| Demonstrate understanding of simple questions and answers, statements, and face-to-face conversations in standard dialect containing some unfamiliar vocabulary |
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Recognize basic constructions, such as subject-verb agreement
("He work" vs. "He works") |
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| Demonstrate understanding of telephone conversations on familiar material in familiar contexts |
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| Intermediate – High |
| Identify main ideas and most supporting detail in factual material relating to everyday topics |
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| Detect the mood of a message, determining to a limited degree such components as the attitudes and feelings of the speakers or the urgency of the message |
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| Demonstrate understanding of stories and other passages when vocabulary and structures are in familiar contexts |
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| Demonstrate understanding of everyday conversation with some repetition or slower speech |
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| Advanced – Low |
| Demonstrate understanding of the majority of face-to-face speech in standard dialect and at a normal rate; some repetition will be required |
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| Demonstrate understanding of abstract topics in familiar contexts |
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| Demonstrate understanding of most of the language used in movies or broadcasts of a non-technical or very general nature |
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| Demonstrate understanding of new vocabulary in context through guessing strategies |
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| Advanced – High |
| Demonstrate understanding of conversation in encounters with native speakers without much repetition or rewording |
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| Demonstrate understanding of descriptions and narrations of factual and technical material |
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