ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEW

(OPI)
Group 7:
• Melati
• Kholisah Putri
• Saini Rasyidi
• Noor Khalidah
 WHAT IS OPI?

• The OPI is an assessment that is carried out in the form of an interview,

but follows an established structure and protocol in order to elicit a
ratable speech sample.
• As the OPI assesses general language proficiency, it is not designed to
assess what you have learned in a specific language program, class,
school, or university, nor is it tied to a specific teaching method or
book. Rather than assessing what you “know” about the language, the
OPI is an assessment of what you “can do” with the language.
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PROFICIENCY GUIDELINES

• The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012 – Speaking describe five

major levels of proficiency: Distinguished, Superior, Advanced,
Intermediate, and Novice.
• The description of each major level is representative of a specific
range of abilities. The major levels Advanced, Intermediate, and
Novice are divided into High, Mid, and Low sublevels.
• The Guidelines describe the tasks that speakers can handle at
each level, as well as the content, context, accuracy, and
discourse types associated with tasks at each level. They also
present the limits that speakers encounter when attempting to
function at the next higher major level.

• These Guidelines can be used to evaluate speech that is either

Interpersonal (interactive, two-way communication) or
Presentational (one-way, non-interactive).