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World Language Credit-by-Exam Available Tests

Languages, cost and additional information about the World Language Credit-by-Exam available testsAlexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) will pay for the first administration of an assessment. A student may repeat an assessment as many times as they wish, but ACPS only covers the cost of the first administration.

ACPS-Approved World Language Assessments

Languages

Type of Assessment

Cost

Test Overview and Practice Tests

Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai

ACTFL Assessment of Performance towards Proficiency in Foreign Languages (AAPPL)

(Interpersonal Listening and Speaking/Presentational Writing) (computer based)

$20

 

Latin

ACTFL Latin Interpretive Reading Assessment (ALIRA) (computer based)

$10

 

Amharic, Armenian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chin (Hakha), Czech, Filipino (Tagalog), Haitian- Creole, Hmong, Ilocano, Kannada, Marathi, Marshalese, Samoan, Somali Maay Maay, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Yup’ik, Zomi.

World Speak (presentational speaking and writing) (computer based)

$49.90

 

Albanian, Bangla, Bosnian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Dari, Gujarati, Hebrew, Malayalam, Pashto, Polish, Swahili, Tagalog, and Yoruba.

Combined Writing Proficiency Test AND Oral Proficiency Interview

$55

Available only from February – June

Intended for students grades 11-12

WPT:

 

OPI:

  • Overview
  • No sample test is available for this assessment.

Danish, Greek (Modern), Norwegian, Persian Farsi,

Writing Proficiency Test

(computer based) AND Oral Proficiency Interview (see below)

$70

 

Indonesian, Pashto

Oral Proficiency Interview – computer based

$70

 

Afrikaans, Akan-Twi,  Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Baluchi, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chavacano,  Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Ga, Georgian, Guajarati, Hausa, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Iraqi, Javanese, Kazakh, Kikongo-Kongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Korean, Krio, Kurdish-Kurmanji, Kurdish-Sorani, Lao, Levantine,  Lingala, Malay, Malayalam, Mandingo-Bambara, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tausug, Turkmen, Uighur, Uzbek, Wolof, Zulu

Oral Proficiency Interview

$119 – non certified

$139 - certified

  • Overview
  • No sample test is available for this assessment.

American Sign Language

American Sign Language Proficiency Interview (ASLPI)

$185

Overview

 

Bengali, Igbo, Slovak, Twi, Tigrinya, Uzbek and Spanish for students at WIDA level 1-2.

ALTA Writing Proficiency Test AND Oral Proficiency Test (see above) – on paper

$65

Example Test (in English but used for all languages). The assessment is a maximum of 60 minutes.

The prompts will be in the language of choice.