CLSC Principal Receives Worldwide ACTFL OPI Certification

Congratulations to CLSC Principal Daisy Chen Laone on achieving official certification through the ACTFL as an ACTFL OPI rater for Mandarin Chinese.

This is a worldwide certification, acknowledging that Daisy is eligible to work globally with ACFTL to rate performance and determine students’ placement levels after the take the OPI.

The OPI allows students who rate at various levels to receive college credit in their chosen language. http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3348

The ACTFL is the American Commission on Teaching Foreign Languages; the OPI is the Oral Proficiency Interview, a standardized procedure for the global assessment of functional speaking ability. It is a face-to-face or telephonic interview between a certified ACTFL tester and an examinee that determines how well a person speaks a language by comparing his or her performance of specific communication tasks with the criteria for each of ten proficiency levels described in the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

The ACTFL OPI is currently used worldwide by academic institutions, government agencies, and private corporations for purposes such as: academic placement, student assessment, program evaluation, professional certification, hiring and promotional qualification. The ACTFL OPI is recognized by the American Council on Education (ACE) for the awarding of college credit.

Students must be in at least 10th grade to receive college credit, but any student may take a version of the OPI to determine their current status. CLSC currently follows OPI guidelines as part of the assessment process to determine students’ levels before they graduate.

Any student who has studied Chinese and is interested in finding out about taking the OPI, in order to receive college credit should please contact Daisy at Principal@ChineseLanguageSchool.org.

Any younger students who wish to find out their proficiency level, in order to advance their Chinese studies so they can test officially in 10th grade should contact Principal@ChineseLanguageSchool.org.