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How confident are you about your Spanish?
Try grading yourself on these questions:
• “I can order a meal and ask a question about something on the menu.”
• “I can follow 2 Spanish speakers who aren’t slowing down for me.”
• “I can get through 20 minutes in a group without anybody switching to English.”
Spanish tests like to use questions like these. But there are some flaws in how most Spanish tests work. (And in how most Spanish learners grade themselves!)
This video shows you the one kind of self-test that holds up, according to research… and how you can use it to track your own Spanish progress.
Inside this video, you’ll discover:
• Why your tutor and your in-laws grade your Spanish differently
• The fatal flaw behind those A1 to C2 levels
• What happens when learners try to judge their own Spanish
• The one self-test that holds up against real exams
• The micro-skills hiding inside every conversation
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Resources from this video:
The full list of can-do statements (NCSSFL-ACTFL), the same scale the researchers used
https://www.actfl.org/educator-resources/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements
Free Spanish fluency course
https://SpanishVideoCourse.com/
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Research mentioned in this video:
• Council of Europe (2001), Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
• North & Schneider (1998), Language Testing 15(2)
• Hulstijn (2007), Modern Language Journal 91(4)
• Deygers, Van Gorp & Demeester (2018), Language Assessment Quarterly 15(1)
• Santamaría Busto (2024), Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada 37(1)
• Li & Zhang (2021), Language Testing 38(2)
• Winke, Zhang & Pierce (2023), Studies in Second Language Acquisition 45(2)
• Davies (2005), A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish