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2021 YHS STARTALK POST-PROGRAM LISTENING-READING-WRITING PROJECT

Student Resource # 6

2021 YHS STARTALK AUDIO PROJECT is developed by the instructors of 2021 YHS STARTALK ONLINE HINDI PROGRAM. We have followed the STARTALK guidelines for this purpose. The five topics for this project, ‘Preparing a trip to India’; ‘Weather in India’; ‘Trip to Jodhpur’, ‘Trip to Jaisalmer’; and ‘Trip to Ladakh’, are from the theme of our program, ‘MY VIRTUAL TRIP TO INDIA’. Each topic is divided into two sections for Novice and Intermediate ranges of proficiency. We are presenting these topics, in text and audio formats, accompanied with activities. We have tried to organize the topics in the ascending order of less challenging to more challenging in terms of key words and sentence structures. The audio material will help improve the listening abilities of learners while the text is intended to improving their learners’ reading and writing abilities. Learners will be able to understand the information as they complete these activities. Parents or teachers may help learners learn key words and sentences. The goal of the material is to develop learners understanding of Hindi vocabulary and sentences in appropriate contexts. Learners may please listen to the audio clip first, then listen again, as you read the printed text; highlight as many words as you can; rewrite these words in ‘Book Creator’, the online tool. Try to construct sentences using the key words and complete all activities of the topic. You may refer to an online dictionary, such as, https://www.shabdkosh.com/

Please feel free to email us for any questions at: yhsbensalem2012@gmail.com We will respond to your questions quickly.  

Students may learn at their own pace as they move on from one topic to another. In order to assess learners proficiency level parents/teacher may refer to ‘ACTFL LISTENING PROFICIENCY GUIDELINES’ provided at the bottom of this document.

This project was made possible by funding from with YHS STARTALK HINDI PROGRAM 2021 grants.

Material developed by:

Instructors: Ashok Ojha, Seema Vashishth, Pooja, Pinky, Anju and Akhila

Program Director and Coordinator: Ashok Ojha

Logistics: Hema Ojha

Technical Support: Laxmi Ojha

Disclaimer: Contents in this project are made available for educational purposes to all learners without any restrictions.  They have no commercial value.

The following is part of the ACTFL original document that may be viewed here: https://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/public/ACTFLProficiencyGuidelines2012_FINAL.pdf

ACTFL Listening Proficiency Guidelines For Intermediate And Novice Levels  

Intermediate

At the Intermediate level, listeners can understand information conveyed in simple, sentence-length speech on familiar or everyday topics. They are generally able to comprehend one utterance at a time while engaged in face-to-face conversations or in routine listening tasks such as understanding highly contextualized messages, straightforward announcements, or simple instructions and directions. Listeners rely heavily on redundancy, restatement, paraphrasing, and contextual clues.

Intermediate-level listeners understand speech that conveys basic information. This speech is simple, minimally connected, and contains high-frequency vocabulary.

Intermediate-level listeners are most accurate in their comprehension when getting meaning from simple, straightforward speech. They are able to comprehend messages found in highly familiar everyday contexts. Intermediate listeners require a controlled listening environment where they hear what they may expect to hear.

Intermediate High

At the Intermediate High sublevel, listeners are able to understand, with ease and confidence, simple sentence-length speech in basic personal and social contexts. They can derive substantial meaning from some connected texts typically understood by Advanced-level listeners although there often will be gaps in understanding due to a limited knowledge of the vocabulary and structures of the spoken language.

Intermediate Mid

At the Intermediate Mid sublevel, listeners are able to understand simple, sentence-length speech, one utterance at a time, in a variety of basic personal and social contexts. Comprehension is most often accurate with highly familiar and predictable topics although a few misunderstandings may occur. Intermediate Mid listeners may get some meaning from oral texts typically understood by Advanced-level listeners.

Intermediate Low

At the Intermediate Low sublevel, listeners are able to understand some information from sentence-length speech, one utterance at a time, in basic personal and social contexts, though comprehension is often uneven. At the Intermediate Low sublevel, listeners show little or no comprehension of oral texts typically understood by Advanced-level listeners.

Novice

At the Novice level, listeners can understand key words, true aural cognates, and formulaic expressions that are highly contextualized and highly predictable, such as those found in introductions and basic courtesies.

Novice-level listeners understand words and phrases from simple questions, statements, and high-frequency commands. They typically require repetition, rephrasing and/or a slowed rate of speech for comprehension. They rely heavily on extralinguistic support to derive meaning.

Novice-level listeners are most accurate when they are able to recognize speech that they can anticipate. In this way, these listeners tend to recognize rather than truly comprehend. Their listening is largely dependent on factors other than the message itself.

Novice High

At the Novice High sub level, listeners are often but not always able to understand information from sentence-length speech, one utterance at a time, in basic personal and social contexts where there is contextual or extralinguistic support, though comprehension may often be very uneven. They are able to understand speech dealing with areas of practical need such as highly standardized messages, phrases, or instructions, if the vocabulary has been learned.

Novice Mid

At the Novice Mid sub level, listeners can recognize and begin to understand a number of high-frequency, highly contextualized words and phrases including aural cognates and borrowed words. Typically, they understand little more than one phrase at a time, and repetition may be required.

Novice Low

At the Novice Low sub level, listeners are able occasionally to recognize isolated words or very high-frequency phrases when those are strongly supported by context. These listeners show virtually no comprehension of any kind of spoken message, not even within the most basic personal and social contexts.