Revised ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines released
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ACTFL is proud to announce the release of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2024 (the Guidelines).
- ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ACTFL is proud to announce the release of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2024 (the Guidelines).
- The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, first released in 1986, are widely recognized as the global gold standard for assessing functional language ability in both academic and workplace settings.
- In addition to aligning the revised Guidelines to key world language documents, the main foci of the revisions to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012 include:
Improved consistency in the wording of descriptors across domains,
Removal of negatively worded and exclusionary language, and
Addition of an overview document, which features the newly redesigned ACTFL inverted pyramid. - We are confident that the revised Guidelines will support educators' and learners' proficiency journeys for many years to come."