Novice Proficiency Levels Quiz

What is the ability of a Novice Low learner in recognizing isolated words or phrases?

• Can recognize a limited number of letters and characters

• Can occasionally recognize isolated words or phrases

• Can recognize high frequency words and phrases

• Can reproduce isolated words with errors

At which level is writing often comprehensible to natives accustomed to the writing of non-natives?

• Novice Low

• Novice Mid

• Novice High

• Intermediate Low

What can a Novice Mid learner do with words and phrases?

• Can recognize letters and symbols

• Can reproduce a modest number of words and phrases

• Can understand sentence length speech

• Can handle uncomplicated communicative tasks

What can a Novice Mid learner recognize and begin to understand?

• High frequency words and phrases

• Isolated words or phrases

• Limited number of letters and characters

• Uncomplicated communicative tasks

Which level can supply some information on simple forms and documents?

• Novice Low

• Novice Mid

• Novice High

• Intermediate Low

How are Intermediate Mid level speakers generally understood by sympathetic interlocutors?

• With difficulty

• Not at all

• Generally understood

• Perfectly understood

What can Intermediate High level speakers narrate and describe?

• Only in present tense

• In different tenses when writing about everyday topics

• Only in future tense

• Only in past tense

What can Advanced Low level speakers narrate and describe?

• Only in present tense

• In major time frames with some control of aspect

• Only in future tense

• Only in past tense

What can Intermediate High level speakers understand with ease?

• Complex novels

• Sentence level discourse

• Technical documents

• Scientific papers

What can an Advanced Mid-level speaker do with ease?

• Handle only informal topics

• Narrate and describe in all time frames with good control

• Understand only past events

• Write with limited vocabulary