ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
What should students be able to do at the end of a first year language course?
At the end of the first semester (December) in a first year a foreign language course students should be able to answer yes to all the I can (Yo puedo) statements in the Novice Low category. Students should also be able to start answering yes to some of the "Yo puedo" statements in the Novice Mid Category. At the end of the first year in a foreign language course students should be able to answer yes to the "Yo puedo" statements in the Novice Mid and Novice High categories.
At the beginning of the second year in a foreign language course students should start out in the Novice High category and be able to finish the first semester in the Intermediate Low category.
At the beginning of the second year in a foreign language course students should start out in the Novice High category and be able to finish the first semester in the Intermediate Low category.