Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Exam
ACE ID:
DLI-0289
Location:
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Length:
20-30 minutes
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 4 Foreign Language
The DLPT credit recommendations reflect a shift to create alignment with college and university foreign language degree programs and elective credits.
Description

Objective:

The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI), is a standardized procedure for the global assessment of functional speaking ability. A face-to-face or telephonic interview between certified testers and an examinee is conducted to determine how well an examinee speaks the target language through comparison of his or her performance on specific communication tasks to the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level Descriptions. The Oral Proficiency Interview takes the form of a carefully structured conversation between trained and certified interviewers and the person whose speaking proficiency is being assessed. The interview is interactive and continuously adapts to the speaking abilities of the individual being tested.The relevant language(s) for this test include(s): Afrikaans; Akan (includes Twi and Fante); Albanian; Amharic; Arabic-Algerian; Arabic-Eastern; Arabic-Egyptian; Arabic-Gulf (includes Arabic spoken in Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, NE Saudi Arabia, and S. Iran); Arabic-Levantine (includes sub-dialects of Syrian, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Palestinian); Arabic-Libyan; Arabic-Modern Standard; Arabic-Moroccan; Arabic-Sudanese (inc. Saudi); Arabic-Tunisian; Arabic-Western; Arabic-Yemeni; Armenian-Eastern Only; Armenian-Western/Eastern; Assyrian; Azeri (Azerbaijani); Baluchi; Belorussian (aka Byelorussian); Bengali; Bosnian; Bulgarian; Burmese; Cambodian (Khmer); Catalan; Cebuano; Chaldean; Chavacano; Chechen; Chinese Cantonese; Chinese Mandarin; Chinese Taiwanese (South Min); Chinese-Wu; Croatian; Czech; Danish; Dinka; Dutch; English; Estonian; Finnish; Flemish; French; Fula/Toucouleur; Fula/Peul; Ga; Georgian; German; Greek; Guarani; Gujarati; Haitian-Creole; Hausa; Hebrew; Hiligaynon; Hindi; Hmong/Mong; Hungarian; Icelandic; Igbo, AKA Ibo; Ilocano; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Javanese; Kashmiri; Kazakh; Kikongo/Kongo; Kirghiz; Korean; Krio; Kurdish-Behdini (Kurmanji); Kurdish-Sorani; Lao; Latvian; Lingala; Lithuanian; Macedonian; Malay; Malayalam; Mandingo-Bambara; Mongolian; Nepali (Nepalese); Norwegian; Pashto-Afghan; Persian-Afghan (Dari); Persian-Farsi; Persian-Tajiki; Polish; Ponapean; Portugese-Brazilian; Portugese-European; Pular; Punjabi; Romanian; Russian; Samoan; Serbian; Serbian/Croatian; Sindhi; Singhalese; Slovak; Slovenian; Somali; Spanish; Swahili; Swedish; Tagalog; Tajik; Tamil (Indian); Tamil (Sri Lanken); Tausug; Telugu; Thai; Tibetan; Tigrinya; Turkish; Turkmen; Ukrainian; Urdu; Uyghur; Uzbek; Vietnamese; Visayan (See notes); Wolof; Yappese; Yoruba; Zulu.

Skills Measured:

The description of expected ability, the learner can initiate and maintain predictable face-to-face conversations and satisfy limited social demands.The skills to be assessed include participate in simple short conversations about everyday activities; satisfy basic survival needs; ask and answer simple questions; and show signs of proficiency (or substantial ability) in narrating, giving instructions/directions, reporting facts, describing.
Instruction & Assessment
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