Volunteers Needed: ACTFL Summer Institute Workshops at UW-Madison

VOLUNTEERS Needed for Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in English, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Yoruba and Tamil (details listed below) at the Memorial Union on June 5 or 6 (30-45-minute commitment in-person or online via Zoom on one of the days)

Would you be interested in an Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) volunteer opportunity? The goal of the workshop is to train instructors to assess language learners’ speaking proficiency through an OPI. The workshop will be held at the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus. Participation in person is preferred, however, using Zoom is an option.

Volunteers will take the OPI with one of the instructors participating in the workshop. The OPI itself will last no more than 10-15 minutes. The OPI will be a conversation in the target language about you – your interests, daily routine, past experiences, ideas, and thoughts. Only the instructors participating in the workshop are being tested, and not you, so you should feel free to relax and just practice speaking your target language.

By volunteering, you will gain valuable experience in how an OPI is structured, should you decide to take the OPI in the future to have your spoken English proficiency formally assessed. (Unfortunately, since this workshop is to provide training for instructors, you will not receive your OPI rating.)

We can’t compensate you for volunteering but will have food coupons on hand to use at the Union as a token of our thanks.

Please contact Ryan Goble at rgoble@wisc.edu or Jana Martin at jcmartin4@wisc.edu if you would like to volunteer or if you have questions. Thank you very much for considering this invitation.

NEEDED: Volunteers/Learners of the following languages:

We would like to thank all of you who accepted our invitation to volunteer at the workshops! If you have any questions about the place and time of your interview, please contact Ryan Goble at rgoble@wisc.edu or Jana Martin at jcmartin4@wisc.edu.