Proficiency-Oriented Language Instruction and Assessment:
A Curriculum Handbook for Teachers
Key Materials
The following documents support the material in the Handbook and are gathered in this section for easy access:
- An
online overview of The National Standards for Foreign Language
Education (now World Readiness Standards) and Order
information
- POLIA
statement and principles developed by the Minnesota Articulation
Project;
- ACTFL
Proficiency Guidelines, which are used to define the
levels for which the tasks and units were developed;
- ACTFL Proficiency
Guidelines–Speaking (Revised 2012)
- Table summarizing the Curricular Themes and a list of the Communicative Functions, both of which correspond to the tasks and units in the Handbook.
