Majors engage in authentic human language environments and are trained to speak, listen, read, and write at Advanced levels of professional working proficiency and above. Minors can expect to reach Intermediate levels of proficiency.

Frameworks: ACTFL and CEFR

This chart from the compares the two major frameworks for the assessment of receptive and productive language skills: the scale of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR). 

Certify Your Current Skills with an OPI Test

The ACTFL OPI is a live, 15- to 30-minute telephone conversation between a certified ACTFL Tester and the candidate. The OPI assessment is a valid and reliable test that measures how well a person speaks a language and can be used on a resume as official proof of your skills. 

There are many levels of bilingualism and bi-cultural awareness that represent an expansion of a person's communicative potential. In becoming bilingual, students come to realize there is no perfect bilingual person who is two monolinguals in one body.  Multilingualism is dynamic.  We should expect to move beyond monolingualism in incremental steps of skill and perception.