SIELE

WHAT IS SIELE?

SIELE is the Servicio Internacional de Evaluación de la Lengua Española which certifies electronically the command of the Spanish language proficiency for students and professionals.

Is promoted by the Instituto Cervantes, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Universidad de Salamanca and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. These institutions guarantee the standards for quality and good practices in the creation of the tests and the use of diverse linguistic varieties in the Hispanic world.

The Hispanic Institute of Utah and SIELE certifies the degree of proficiency for the Spanish language with four tests:
– Reading Comprehension
– Listening Comprehension.
– Written Expression and Interaction
– Spoken Expression and Interaction

The exam also takes as a reference the levels established by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

TEST SIELE GLOBAL

The most comprehensive online exam for certifying your Spanish proficiency.

It is a single multilevel exam that allows you to obtain the SIELE certificate, a document that includes a score from 0 to 1000, the result of the sum of your scores from each of the four tests, and associated with the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

READING COMPREHESION

LISTENING COMPREHESION

WRITTEN EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

SPOKEN EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

INDEPENDENT MODALITIES

These are 5 other exam modalities based on a combination of the various tests.

Any of these four independent modalities enable you to obtain the SIELE Report and your obtained scores can be associate with the CEFR levels.

S1

READING COMPREHESION

LISTENING COMPREHESION

S2

READING COMPREHESION

WRITTEN EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

S3

LISTENING COMPREHESION

SPOKEN EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

S4

SPOKEN EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

S5

WRITTEN EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

SPOKEN EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

THE SIELE TESTS

THE SIELE EXAMS ARE COMPRISED OF UP TO 4 SPECIFIC TESTS THAT COVER ALL THE AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE.

Within the exam type that you choose, there will be 4 tests (SIELE Global exam) or the combination of some of these (independent modalities).

Reading Comprehension

Test

5 tasks with a total of 38 questions.

Questions based on written texts and comprehension

Maximum time

60 minutes

Immediately and automatically scored

Score:

250 pts.

Vídeo

Listening Comprehension

Test

6 tasks with a total
of 38 questions.

Questions are in recorded or spoken form.

Maximum time

55 minutes

Immediately and automatically scored

Score:

250 ptos.

Vídeo

Written Expression and Interaction

Test

2 tasks

Questions involve
expressing content in writing.

Maximum time

50 minutes

Manual scoring by SIELE expert linguists.

Score:

250 pts.

Vídeo

Spoken Expression and Interaction

Test

5 tasks

Questions based on a
text or a speech or recording and answered orally through a recording system.

Maximum time

15 minutes

Manual scoring by SIELE expert linguists.

Score:

250 ptos.

Vídeo

ACCREDIT A B1/B2 LEVEL OF SPANISH TO OBTAIN AN UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE

A large number of Spanish universities ask their students to have an official certificate of Spanish in order to obtain their undergraduate diploma and/or to access a master’s/postgraduate program.
The required level differs according to each university, though the most requested levels are B1 and B2.
Below we present the SIELE test score levels

SIELE Spanish certification

Preparation course

Objectives

You will easily navigate through the four SIELE Global tests and you will know how the platform tools work;
You will know the structure, content and instructions of the four tests;
You will be able to use appropriate strategies for each of the test tasks;
Understand the scoring criteria for the EIE and EIO tests;
You will have practiced performing the four tests with completely new models.

Contents

The course is made up of eight modules, two per test. For each of the tests, you will perform…

a preparation module, made up of videos and interactive activities, in which the operation of the test is explained and strategies are presented and practiced so that you can optimize your results in the exam;
a practice module, which consists of a complete test that you can take in conditions similar to those on the day of the exam.

Availability

The course is available six months from the time of purchase. After this time, it closes automatically.