Proficiency-Oriented Language Instruction and Assessment:
A Curriculum Handbook for Teachers

Key Materials

The following documents support the material in the Handbook and are gathered in this section for easy access:

• An online overview of The National Standards for Foreign Language Education
  
• Standards for Foreign Language Language Learning in the 21st Century––Order information
  
• POLIA statement and principles developed by the Minnesota Articulation Project;
  
• ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, which are used to define the levels for which the tasks and units were developed;
  
• ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines–Speaking (Revised 2012)
  
• Table summarizing the Curricular Themes and a list of the Communicative Functions, both of which correspond to the tasks and units in the Handbook.