Abstract
speech at the Advanced and Superior Levels, yet the assumption that testers of oral proficiency can effectively distinguish among not only student speaking skills but also among the comprehension skills of the various types of interlocutors named within the descriptors has yet to be validated. Van Lier (p. 494) stresses the need to determine if, in fact, generalizable attributes exist which limit comprehensibility by interlocutor type. Magnan (p. 268) urges a reexamination of the descriptors for Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) rating levels using actual language data from students, in order to indicate how many and what type of errors are associated with the various OPI levels. The ACTFL Guidelines state that the non-
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