La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § LXXXIII-4005

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section LXXXIII-4005 - English Language Proficiency Descriptors

A.English language proficiency labels are defined as:

1. Level I - Beginning Proficiency indicates that the student who is limited English proficient is:

a. beginning to understand short utterances;

b. beginning to use gestures and simple words to communicate;

c. beginning to understand simple printed material;

d. beginning to develop communicative writing skills.

2. Level II - Lower Intermediate Proficiency indicates that the student who is limited English can:

a. understand simple statements, directions, and questions;

b. use appropriate strategies to initiate and respond to simple conversation;

c. understand the general message of basic reading passages;

d. compose short informative passages on familiar topics.

3. Level III - Upper Intermediate Proficiency indicates that the student who is limited English proficient can:

a. understand standard speech delivered in most settings;

b. communicate orally with some hesitation;

c. understand descriptive material within familiar contexts and some complex narratives;

d. write simple texts and short reports.

4. Level IV - Advanced Proficiency indicates that the student who is limited English proficient can:

a. identify the main ideas and relevant details of discussions or presentations on a wide range of topics;

b. actively engage in most communicative situations familiar or unfamiliar;

c. understand the context of most text in academic areas with support;

d. write multi-paragraph essays, journal entries, personal/business, and creative texts in an organized fashion with some errors.

5. Level V - Full English Proficiency indicates that the student who is limited English proficient can:

a. understand and identify the main ideas and relevant details of extended discussion or presentations on familiar and unfamiliar topics;

b. is fluent and accurate in language production;

c. use reading strategies the same as their native English-speaking peers to derive meaning from a wide range of both social and academic texts;

d. write fluently using language structures, technical vocabulary, and appropriate writing conventions with some circumlocutions.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § LXXXIII-4005

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 30:767 (April 2004).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:10.1.