Standard:  Interpretive Communication

Measurement Category:  Listening Comprehension

  Given an authentic audio clip of either a conversation or a narrative in Spanish, the learner will correctly (1) identify the main idea of the audio clip or (2) extract a specific detail from that audio clip.

Examples of authentic audio clips used on the National Spanish Examination:

• A conversation

• A description

• An announcement

• A set of instructions / directions

• A film or video clip

• An excerpt or passage from

  a news bulletin

  a radio broadcast

  an article, a letter

  an essay, a magazine

  a book or novel

  a play

  a newspaper

  an editorial

  a short story

  a poem

  a legend

  a fable

  a fairy tale

  a website