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DETAILED SKILLS SELF-ASSESSMENT
INSTRUCTIONS: The following Self-Assessment of foreign language Readng Proficiency is intended to serve as a rough estimate of foreign
language proficiency.
It is not necessary to know all the words or understand all the details of the texts listed for each item number below, but it is necessary in order to
perform the functional tasks described at the indicated level of accuracy.
To estimate your level of proficiency, please read each task statement below and check "yes" if you believe you can perform the stated task and "no" if
you do not believe you can perform it. If a statement describes your ability only some of the time, or only in some contexts, you should answer "no".
SECTION III - ASSESSMENT: READING PROFICIENCY IN
:
(Language)
(X one) YES NO
(X one) YES NO
1. I can recognize names of people and places.
19. I can read difficult material, such as technical material in
other specialties, complex opinion/editorial pieces, or
literature, with occasional use of a dictionary.
2. I can read street signs well enough to find my way.
3. I can recognize common words for shops and businesses.
20. I can serve as an informal translator of newspapers,
correspondence, and technical material in my field.
4. I can read posted prices.
21. I can read and understand precise instructions and
explanations sent in this language by professional
5. I can read a weather report.
associates via email.
6. I can read want-ads, well enough to locate, for example,
22. I feel that I have a level of skill in reading this language that
an apartment.
allows me to fulfill my professional obligations.
7. I can read the language well enough to assist someone
who does not know the language in coping with the above
23. In my professional reading, my vocabulary and cultural
situations.
background are always extensive and precise enough to
allow me to understand the exact meaning, even if it is not
8. I can read news items about frequently occurring events.
explicitly stated.
24. I am able to follow a wide variety of writing styles,
9. I can read and follow simple biographical information.
including academic, formal professional, poetry, colloquial,
and slang.
10. I can read social notices (such as wedding
announcements).
25. I can understand writing that includes the use of a regional
dialect of the language, possibly with some assistance
11. I can read business letters in a standard format on
from a dictionary or native speaker.
common topics.
26. I can serve as an informal translator of high-stakes
12. I can read simple technical material written for the general
materials that might, for example, affect national security.
reader.
13. I can read and get the main points of technical material
27. I can carry out any job assignment involving reading in
written for specialists in my field.
this language as effectively as in my native language.
28. In my reading on all subjects, my vocabulary and cultural
14. I can read and understand nearly all email sent by friends
background are always extensive and precise enough to
and family in this language.
enable me to understand the exact meaning, whether or
not it is explicitly stated.
15. I can read the language well enough to assist someone
else who does not know the language in coping with the
29. I can read everything in this language as well as I can in
situations covered by statements 8 - 14.
my native language.
16. I can read standard newspaper items addressed to the
general reader (including feature items).
30. My reading vocabulary is at least as extensive and precise
as that of a highly educated monolingual native speaker of
the language.
17. I can read routine articles in print or on the Web.
18. I can read and understand nearly everything in technical
31. I consider myself as competent as any native reader of the
reports and printed material in my field.
language.
DD FORM 2933, SEP 2009
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