Praxis Spanish: World Language case studies
Praxis Spanish: World Language · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Praxis Spanish: World Language (test code 5195) is one of the Praxis Subject Assessments, the ETS testing family used in the United States for educator certification and licensure. Candidates typically take it when they are seeking a teaching license or endorsement to teach Spanish in K–12 schools, and some educator preparation programs also use it as an exit requirement. The Praxis Spanish: World Language case studies are 5 cases and about 2,961 words.
1The Unedited Radio Clip: When Authentic Listening Becomes an Advanced Task
Ferrer teaches Spanish III to 26 students in a suburban high school. For the unit assessment on current events, she plays a 3:40 unedited clip from a Mexican radio call-in show: two speakers, some overlap, street noise behind the studio feed, and rapid colloquial speech.
636 words, about 3 min2Understood Every Sentence, Missed the Joke: Irony in an Opinion Column
Ochoa's Spanish IV class of 30 is reading an opinion column from a Madrid newspaper about tourism and housing. Before reading, students review ten vocabulary items, and they score 85% on the in-context vocabulary items on the quiz.
585 words, about 3 min3Who Earned the 4? Pair Role-Play and Individual Scores
Duarte runs a four-minute information-gap role-play in Spanish IV: one partner is a travel agent, the other a client planning a two-week trip on a $2,000 budget. There are 12 pairs and one holistic 1–5 rubric.
594 words, about 3 min4Fluent but Hollow vs. Error-Prone but Rich: Scoring Two Presentations
Two students present on "La diversidad cultural en el mundo hispanohablante" in Spanish V. Student A speaks fluently and almost error-free for six minutes, but the content is generic - festivals, food, a mention of "a holiday similar to our Thanksgiving" - and includes a word-for-word English idiom rendered in Spanish that leaves the class puzzled.
599 words, about 3 min5The 200-Word Midnight Message: Machine Translation in a Partner-Class Exchange
Ibarra's Spanish III class of 27 exchanges asynchronous messages with a school in Querétaro. Three weeks in, he notices a pattern in some of his students' posts: 200-word messages, grammatically flawless, using subjunctive forms and vocabulary never taught in the course, mixing formal "usted" with friendly "tú," and appearing about 45 minutes after the prompt, at 11 p.m.
547 words, about 3 min