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TELPAS Proficiency Level Descriptors - Coggle Diagram
TELPAS Proficiency Level Descriptors
Intermediate Level
Vocabulary
These students are able to identify most words to express their ideas, but they lack more specific topic/subject vocabulary. (p. 244)
Genre
These students are more limited in their choices of expository forms, but they are able to choose a form that suits them and their knowledge. (p. 244)
Grammer
These student may have minor grammatical errors. (p. 244)
Student uses verbs in irregular past tense and present progressives. (Carrizales, 2018A)
The student uses prepositions, pronouns, articles, and adjectives. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Sentence Variety
These students may use several sentence patterns. (p. 244)
Student writes detailed simple sentences attempts in irregular past tense. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Fluency
When writing, these students may write several sentence. (p. 244)
Description
Intermediate students have developed fluency in their writings as well as a knowledge of simple sentence types, and they are developing fluidity in their expressions. (p. 255)
Organization
These students ideas are somewhat sequenced in their writing. (p. 244)
Intermediate students will connect ideas with time markers. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Advanced High Level
Students may struggle with naturalness of phrasing and expression. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Advanced high leveled students can be compared to their native English-speaking peers when it comes to vocabulary, and language structures. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Produces occasional errors in semantics. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Erros are minor and limited to low-frequency words and structures. They may interfere with their ability to communicate. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Advanced Level
Vocabulary
Students have very good vocabulary as their peers who are native speakers. Students will follow standard organization for their genre of writing. (p. 244)
Genre
Students are able to make the appropriate choices on several genres.
Grammer
Advanced students grammar will have resemblance to their peers that are native speakers at their age. Students will follow standard organization for their genre of writing. (p. 244)
Sentence Variety
Students are able to have a variety of sentence patterns that they use correctly. Students will follow standard organization for their genre of writing. (p. 244)
Fluency
Students are able to write complete paragraphs and more. Students will follow standard organization for their genre of writing. (p. 244)
Description
Our concept of an advanced second language writer is defined in terms of an effective first language writer of the same age. (Peregoy & Boyle, 2013, p. 243)
Organization
Students will follow standard organization for their genre of writing. (p. 244)
Beginner Level
Vocabulary
These students have very basic and limited vocabulary. They focus more on their first language and rely on the teacher giving specify translations. (pg. 244)
Uses high frequency words, most vocabulary is memorized or highly familiar. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Genre
This student has no sense of genres, they do not differentiate forms to suit the purpose of what they are writing. (p.244)
Grammer
Students only write in present tense and basic word-order problems. (p. 244) & (Carrizales, 2018A)
This student may write using frequent primary language features. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Fluency
Students will write in one or two short sentences. (p. 244)
Sentence Variety
They may only use one to two sentence patterns. (p. 244)
Writes simple sentences or very short paragraphs. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Description
These students will exhibit error associated with second language acquisition that may significantly hinder or prevent understanding. (Carrizales, 2018A)
Organization
When organizing, these students lack logical sequences or they don't have sentence at all. (p. 244)