Language difficulty categories

[Katie Janicka]

In her Teaching Language in Context, Alice Omaggio Hadley provides a table of
expected levels of speaking proficiency in languages taught at the FSI (p. 28
in 1993 edition, newer editions have the table as well). The table comes
originally from J.E. Liskin-Gasparro, ETS Oral Proficiency Testing Manual.
Princeton, NJ, ETS, 1982.
The table gives length of training (in weeks/hours) to reach various levels
for various groups (difficulty) of languages.

Hope this will help,

Katie Janicka

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Katie Janicka
Russian Department
Bryn Mawr College

Donald Loewen <djloewen at BINGHAMTON.EDU> said:

> Greetings.
> Can anyone point me to the State Department's (Foreign Service Institute's
> ?) ranking of languages according to complexity/time required to reach
> various competency levels? (either WWW or print source)  I've searched
> through a series of books and sites and haven't come up with it
> yet.  Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
> Don Loewen
> Binghamton University
>
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