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It is the standard grading scale for language proficiency in the United States's federal-level service. It was originally developed by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR), which included representatives of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, based at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center (NFATC).
Since the 1950s, the ILR has made a number of contributions to the field of linguistics, both for American and foreign linguists, including, but not limited to: [3] ILR Proficiency Level Descriptions [4] – This is a system of measuring the language proficiency of an individual, on a scale of 0 to 5. Proficiency level of 0 equates to no ...
Scoring for the current (2007) series of tests, called DLPT5, is, like that for their predecessors, based on the guidelines of the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR), with the test results stated as levels 0+ through 3 or up to 4 for some languages. Military language analysts are required to maintain a L2/R2 proficiency.
The resulting correspondence between the ILR and ACTFL scales disagrees with the generally accepted one. [28] The ACTFL standards were developed so that Novice, Intermediate, Advanced and Superior would correspond to 0/0+, 1/1+, 2/2+ and 3/3+, respectively on the ILR scale. [29]
ILR scale, a measure of language proficiency originally created by the Interagency Language Roundtable; Indefinite leave to remain, an immigration status in the United Kingdom; Ivo Lola Ribar Institute, a Serbia-based manufacturer of heavy machine tools; Independent Local Radio, a term for commercial radio in the United Kingdom and Ireland
As a general rule, NLSC Members possess professional working proficiency rating at a Level 3 or higher on the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale. When an NLSC Member is selected to assist federal agencies with their language requirements, they do so as short term temporary federal employees.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Developing proficiency in any language begins with word learning. By the time they are 12 months old, children learn their first words and by the time they are 36 months old, they may know well over 900 words with their utterances intelligible to the people who interact with them the most.