Spanish Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview (SOPI)
Purpose: To assess the speaking proficiency of high school and college Spanish
learners
Target: Students enrolled in traditional high school (grades 11 and above)
and college language courses.
(Note: The SOPI is designed for native
speakers
of English studying Spanish. All the directions, both audio and
print, are in English.)
Method and format: Performance-based; simulated
oral proficiency interview
The student listens to directions on a
master tape, following
along in a test booklet, and then responds on a separate tape.
Content: An introductory warm up is
followed by picture-based tasks, topic-based tasks, and situation-based
tasks.
Administration time: 25 to
50 minutes
Levels and scoring: Responses are scored holistically by
trained raters, according to the language proficiency scales of the
American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) http://www.actfl.org.
Reliability/validity: Correlation with ACTFL's Oral
Proficiency Interview (OPI) has been determined for a number of languages,
including Chinese, Hebrew, Hausa, and Indonesian.
The correlation between the
SOPI and the ACTFL OPI was >.89 in all cases. In addition, inter-rater
reliability studies were conducted to determine the consistency of scores
among SOPI
raters. Inter-rater reliability has ranged from .91 (Hausa) to
.97 (Indonesian). |
Number of forms: Three
Materials available: Master test tape, examinee
response tape, test manual, examinee handbook
Center for Applied Linguistics
4646 40th Street NW
Washington, DC 20016
202-362-0700
http://cal-org.wdi.net |