There, he ll introduce his Russian colleagues to proficiency testing as developed and used by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Pavlenko and his wife plan to leave for Moscow at the end of December and return to Colorado in June. They re relying on family and friends in Moscow to help them find an apartment. As a proficiency tester this year, Pavlenko will gauge what students can do with their target language, rather than how much they know about that language. After a 30-minute test, Pavlenko rates the interview on a proficiency scale from novice to superior.
Rankings take certain things into account.
Formal and unpredictable situations require higher proficiency than the informal and predictable ones. I find this fascinating, Pavlenko says about his upcoming work. I hope Russians find it useful. He also plans to explore the testing methods used at the Pushkin Institute. Pavlenko and History Professor Mark Johnson established the Russian-Eurasian studies major and minor, now in their second year, in which students can concentrate either in the Russian language and literature track or the area studies track.