30.1290, FYI: ACTFL OPI Tester Paid Opportunity

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1290. Thu Mar 21 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1290, FYI: ACTFL OPI Tester Paid Opportunity

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:15:31
From: Celia Zamora [ccz5 at georgetown.edu]
Subject: ACTFL OPI Tester Paid Opportunity

 
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is providing a
tester training for native critical language speakers in late March (online)
and April 10-14 (in-person in Alexandria, Virginia). Testers will be trained
at no cost by ACTFL to administer and rate oral proficiency interviews (OPIs)
according to the ILR scale. Once certified, testers will be called upon to
conduct remote telephonic testing as needed (generally a few hours each month;
no travel required). Trainees are paid for completing all training steps (they
will receive a $500 honorarium for attending the training), reimbursed for
travel to and from the in-person training, as well as be paid per test they
conduct when certified as a tester.

The link to learn more about the training and submit an application is here:
www.actfl.org/ilropi. The following is more information regarding the
qualifications for the position: 

Be a Native speaker of one of the languages listed below. Cultural familiarity
with country/countries where this language is spoken.

Online coursework: late March 2019

In person workshop: April 10-14 : Arabic-Sudanese, Ilocano, Kashmiri, Kirghiz,
Lao, Mandingo-Malinke, Pashto-Peshawari, Tigrinya.

Weekday availability to test during weekdays from 9am-5pm Eastern Time, as
needed, totaling 10 hours per week (higher demanded languages) or 10 hours per
month (lower demand). 
Access to a landline phone on which to conduct testing (for lower demand
languages, cell phone is acceptable on a case-by-case basis). 
Complete tester certification coursework
Online (self-guided)
Online (synchronous with trainer)
In-person in Alexandria, VA (3-4 days). All travel and accommodation costs to
attend the training are paid on your behalf. 
Complete assignments: a pre-workshop and post-workshop assignment to
demonstrate mastery of concepts, practice interviews, and a final evaluation
from ACTFL’s ILR review board/trainers. 

Please feel welcome to forward this message to native speakers of the
aforementioned languages who may also be interested. Let me know if you have
any questions or if I can provide further information. 

Respectfully,

Celia Chomón Zamora, Ph.D.
ACTFL Consultant
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics





 



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