Praxis II Spanish: Productive Language Skills Exam

This exam is designed for individuals who would like to teach Spanish in grades K-12. You will be given one hour to complete this exam. Your written and verbal responses must be in Spanish. There will be three written response questions regarding presentational writing in Spanish, and there will be six questions that cover presentational speaking in Spanish. The presentational writing questions will count as 40% of the final grade and, the presentational speaking questions will count as 60% of the final grade for this exam.

Presentational Writing
For this section of the exam you will be required to write a letter or e-mail, write questions, and narrate a picture in Spanish. For the writing questions you will be asked to write four questions that will provoke long and short answers. When writing a letter e-mail, you will be asked to write a short and formal e-mail or letter, in reference to a situation printed in your test booklet. For the picture narration section, you will be asked to write a short composition, in reference to a series of pictures that are included in the test booklet.

Presentational Speaking
For this section of the exam you will be required to record your answers in Spanish, onto a tape recorder. There will be six taped questions for you to answer in this section of the exam. These questions will cover a brief talk, oral paraphrase, stating and defending an opinion, picture narration or giving instructions, picture description, and role playing. For the brief talk question you will be asked to respond to a situation using the appropriate level of language for the audience and the task. To answer the oral paraphrase question you will be asked to paraphrase a Spanish text that you heard previously on the tape. The stating and defending an opinion question will require you to state and defend an opinion on a topic from your test booklet. For the picture narration question you will be asked to narrate a series of pictures, or tell a story based on a series of pictures. To answer the giving instructions question you will be asked to provide step-by-step instructions, based on a series of pictures in the test booklet. For the picture description question you will be asked to provide a detailed description of a picture from the test booklet. To answer the role-playing question you will be asked to respond to a role-playing situation printed in the test booklet.