Test Form

Model Standards Listening Skill

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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Demonstrate comprehension of simple words in context of common, everyday situations

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Demonstrate comprehension of basic commands through physical action

Demonstrate understanding of simple face-to-face conversations using previously learned material

Demonstrate strategies to check for understanding – clarifying by attempting to reproduce what has been heard, for example

Respond appropriately to short emergency warnings

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

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 [taken here to include phone conversations between other people]

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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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Demonstrate understanding of the majority of face-to-face speech in standard dialect and at a normal rate; some repetition will be required

Demonstrate understanding of abstract topics in familiar contexts

Demonstrate understanding of most of the language used in movies or broadcasts of a non-technical or very general nature

Demonstrate understanding of new vocabulary in context through guessing strategies

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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