[B-Greek] ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines/ measuring progress.

Mary Pendergraft pender at wfu.edu
Sat Feb 12 16:53:41 EST 2005


Not for Koine in specific, but for Classical Languages:

http://www.aclclassics.org/pdf/standards.pdf

Here is a more specific example, for Latin, from my state (altho' it has 
been supervised by a soon-to-be-published revision).

www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/latin/


Mary Pendergraft

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com wrote:

> Has anyone ever written proficiency guidelines for Koine Greek?
> 
> These guidelines look to have been prepared for modern languages, but I think 
> I am able to apply the levels to Koine.
> http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/actfl.htm
> 
> I was surprised to realize my son and I have moved from the novice to the 
> intermediate level in reading and writing Greek. I tend to be a horrible 
> curriculum hopper so we have not made much headway through any particular book, but it 
> looks like we have learned more than I thought we had.
> 
> For example we can easily compose full sentences in the present tense, which 
> appears to me to be in the mid intermediate range. I had been thinking of that 
> as novice level, and phonics as being a preprimer level.
> 
> It was interesting to decide what level we are currently at, and which level 
> is my goal for each of the areas of speaking, listening, reading and writing. 
> My goals are much lower for speaking and listening, than they are for reading 
> and writing.
> 
> I find the idea of guidelines to be more helpful than number of chapters 
> completed. I just wish I could find something like this written for classical 
> languages!
> 
> Kat Doe
> Homeschool mom
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