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Welcome, Spanish language educators for all grade levels! We realize the importance of assessing and gauging the progress of your students' speaking skills, and we understand the challenges you face in this evaluation process. Introduction to Oral Proficiency Levels is a free open educational resource (OER) that can help you gain a foundational understanding of how to evaluate Spanish speakers.

When I started teaching, I knew one thing: I didn't want to teach language the way I was taught. When I was in jr. high and high school, I learned about Spanish (in English), but I never used it. I got A's in all of my Spanish classes because I could conjugate verbs and translate...

Last week I posed a question on twitter trying to find out what teachers thought was the biggest challenge facing world language educators today. I got some interesting responses and some expected responses.

Last Thursday, Langchatters were so eager to discuss how to move students to a "novice-high" level that they were already tweeting on the topic before the first question was posted! In this Q&A #langchat, participants covered lots of ground.

Great question on Twitter, yesterday, from a high school french teacher named Martha Behlow: ( Link for tweet here) 90% target language in upper levels is realistic, but what about levels 1 & 2? How do you keep them from freaking out?