HET CERTIFICAAT NEDERLANDS ALS VREEMDE TAAL

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HET CERTIFICAAT NEDERLANDS ALS VREEMDE TAAL
oznur.karaca_at_arts.kuleuven.be
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leuven, 23 September 2005
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Introducing Two New Profiles for the
Certificate Dutch as a Foreign Language
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THE CERTIFICATE OF DUTCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
? Administered worldwide ? Functional and
task-based exams ? 4 domain-specific language
examinations
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Principles of functional language use

• Domain specific language use
• Being able to function with the target language
  in a certain cluster of situations
• Based on highly contextualised needs

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The 4 Existing Domains

• Tourist and informal language proficiency
• Social language proficiency
• Professional language proficiency
• Academic language proficiency

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Additional Domains

• 5. Domain of Language Proficiency in
• Practically Oriented Professions (PTPB)
• ? intended for secondary school graduates who
  wish to start working as labourers or skilled
  workers (welders, electricians, lorry drivers,
  repairmen,) in Dutch speaking territories.

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Additional Domains

• 6. Domain of Language Proficiency in Higher
• Education (PTHO)
• ? Intended for secondary school graduates who
  wish to enroll at a university or other institute
  of higher education in Dutch-speaking
  territories, taking into account different
  branches of study.

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Conducting a needs analysis

• Presenting pupils with target language use
  situations
• Comparison with final achievement goals in
  schools in border regions
• Comparison with admittance requirements in
  institutes of higher education and companies in
  border regions

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Consulted Sources

• Framework Language and Intercultural Competencies
  the Euregio competencies
• IHK-Zusatzqualifikation berufsorientierte
  Fremdsprache
• Arbeitzplatz Europa
• Compétences minimales et savoirs requis en
  langues modernes
• Admittance requirements of Flemish institutes of
  higher education

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Bringing the data together

• Creating real-life language use situations
• Determining the language skills required in one
  such situation
• Label these with language use requirements
• SETTING NEW LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS
• ? Comparison to the Common European Framework of
  Reference

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Example of one language requirement description (
for PTPB)- Listening skills

• 1. Determining the language act
• Can catch and follow the main thought
• 2. Determining the kind of text
• In an Informative Text
• such as Instructions, Announcements, Etc.
• 3. Determining examples
• - listening to instructions of the foreman
• - understanding a call via intercom to proceed
  to another room

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Examples of language tasks

• PTPB
• The employee is able to deal with an automatic
• answering machine.
• The employee can fill out a repair invoice,
  having listened
• to a customer explaining what is wrong with an
  appliance.
• The employee can fill out a work schedule in
  discussion
• with co-workers.
• The employee can explain safety measures to a
  student in
• work placement.
• ...

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Examples of language tasks

• PTHO
• The student is able to take part in a discussion
  at a forum, concerning the subject of his
  studies.
• The student is able to take notes during a radio
  broadcast, in preparation of an oral
  presentation.
• The student can summarize an elaborate text on a
  known subject.

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The new profiles related to the CEFR

C 2
C 1
B 2
B 1
A 2
A 1
PTIT
PMT
PPT
PAT
PTPB
PTHO
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Conducting a pilot exam

• 120 students in Germany
• Primarily last year students
• Testing reading, listening, writing, and speaking
  skills.

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Results for PTPB

• 91 participants
• 62 participants for parts A, B, C of the exam
  without missings
• Reliability Statistics
• - Cronbachs Alpha ,884
• - N of items 74
• Statistics N Valid 63
• Missing 0
• Mean 64.8730
• Std. Deviation 7.50589
• Minimum 38.00
• Maximum 74.00
• ? Average score 87.7

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Histogram for PTPB
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• QUESTIONS?