This year’s FLACS exams will be administered on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.
You must be a NYSAWLA member in good standing prior to the membership deadline of March 1, 2023, in order to have access to this year’s exams.
FLACS exams will make a gradual shift towards reflecting the new NYS Learning Standards for World Languages. It will begin with a major change in the “Speaking” section and minor changes in the number of items in other sections. Over the next few years, each part of the FLACS exams will be reviewed and modified according to the new standards.
Below are links to our new rubrics that will be used to score the presentational and interpersonal speaking tasks on the FLACS exams. Practice booklets are forthcoming. Thank you for your patience.
NYS delineates two (2) categories of modern languages based on the time needed for English speakers to develop proficiency.
Category 1 and 2 modern languages include those that use a Roman-based alphabet (e.g., Spanish, French, German, Italian, Swahili).
Category 3 and 4 modern languages include indigenous languages (e.g., Seneca, Tuscarora), those languages that are character-based (e.g., Japanese, Korean, Mandarin), and those that use non-Roman-based alphabets(e.g., Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Russian).
Our major shift this year is with the Speaking section. We are moving from an utterance-based points tally to a rubric-based evaluation of two types of tasks — a presentational task (new this year) and two interpersonal tasks (similar to last year)
This section will essentially remain the same, with minor changes in the number of items. It is IMPORTANT to note that NYSAWLA will NOT be providing an audio recording this year. A listening script will be made available early enough for districts to make their own recordings, if they so choose.
This section will essentially remain the same, with minor changes in the number of items. We will begin a shift towards a focus on culture in this section.
This section will essentially remain the same, with no changes in the number of items or point values.
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***We ask that you refrain from phoning and emailing your questions to us, as we will be hard at work preparing for our new exams this year. We WILL monitor this form, though, and will respond as quickly as possible to all entries.***