Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CXI - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices
Chapter 23 - English Language Development Assessment (ELDA)
Subchapter E - Proficiency Levels and Proficiency Standards
Section CXI-2309 - Proficiency Levels
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
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B. Proficiency Level Definitions
Level I, Beginning Proficiency-a student at this level is beginning to understand short utterances.
Level II, Lower Intermediate Proficiency-a student at this level understands simple statements, directions, and questions.
Level III, Upper Intermediate Proficiency-a student at this level understands standard speech delivered in most settings.
Level IV, Advanced Proficiency-a student at this level can identify main ideas and relevant details of discussions or presentations on a wide range of topics.
Level V, Full English Proficiency-a student at this level can understand and identify main idea(s) and relevant details of extended discussions or presentations on a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar topics.
Level I, Beginning Proficiency-a student at this level is beginning to use gestures and simple words to communicate.
Level II, Lower Intermediate Proficiency-a student at this level can use appropriate strategies to initiate and respond to simple conversation.
Level III, Upper Intermediate Proficiency-a student at this level can communicate orally with some hesitation.
Level IV, Advanced Proficiency-a student at this level can actively engage in most communicative situations familiar and unfamiliar.
Level V, Full English Proficiency-a student at this level is fluent and accurate in language production.
Level I, Beginning Proficiency-a student at this level is beginning to understand simple printed material.
Level II, Lower Intermediate Proficiency-a student at this level can understand the general message of basic reading passages.
Level III, Upper Intermediate Proficiency-a student at this level can understand descriptive materials within familiar contexts and some complex narratives.
Level IV, Advanced Proficiency-a student at this level can understand the context of most text in the academic areas with support.
Level V, Full English Proficiency-a student at this level can use reading strategies the same as their native English-speaking peers to derive meaning from a wide range of both social and academic texts.
Level I, Beginning Proficiency-a student at this level is beginning to develop communicative writing skills.
Level II, Lower Intermediate Proficiency-a student at this level can compose short informative passages on very familiar topics.
Level III, Upper Intermediate Proficiency-a student at this level can write simple texts and short reports.
Level IV, Advanced Proficiency-a student at this level can write multi-paragraph essays, journal entries, personal/business letters, and creative texts in an organized fashion with some errors.
Level V, Full English Proficiency-a student at this level can write fluently using language structures, technical vocabulary, and appropriate writing conventions with some circumlocutions (wordy or indirect language).
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with 20 USCS, Section 6311.
