Spanish Test Preparation for the Oral Proficiency Interview OPI

Spanish Test Preparation for the Oral Proficiency Interview

Casa Xelajú’s Spanish program is offering the Spanish Oral Proficiency Interview Test Preparation in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. The OPI is a structured assessment to establish the student’s speaking level of functional ability. This test is also used to measure the strengths and weakness of the student’s speaking oral proficiency. Created by the Foreign Service Institute of the US government more than 40 years ago, the original OPI was modified by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Currently, the OPI is an oral test that bilingual and Spanish teachers must take in order to establish their level and obtain their teaching credentials. It is also used by the most prestigious companies in the world and government agencies to hire new employees.

For those students who will take the Spanish Oral Proficiency Interview test Preparation, Casa Xelajú will administer the Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview (SOPI) in Spanish at the end of their studies. The SOPI is free of charge and it will measure the speaker’s proficiency level.

Casa Xelajú has done extensive research in how to prepare the students to take this test. Our teachers are prepared to work and improve the student’s speaking levels in a total Spanish immersion environment in Guatemala.

Each student receives one-on-one instruction five hours a day, five days a
week. In addition Casa Xelaju offers their students home stay with a
Guatemalan family and three or four social andcultural activities per
week.

Document updated in April, 2006