Rogue Valley Invitational at Crater High School Fall 2024
2024 — Central Point, OR/US
LIELL
Event Description:
13.10. Literary Interpretation for English Language Learners (LIELL)
13.10.1. Eligibility to participate in LIELL. All students receiving ELL (English Language Learning) services, including
Advanced ELL, and or who have been assessed at a beginning or intermediate English proficiency level
using the ITP, ELPA or other equivalent assessment test used in Oregon, shall be eligible to compete in
an open division of this event during the school year in which they either received these services and/or
were so assessed.
13.10.2. Communication among judges during the round. Judges must make independent decisions. Judges shall
not discuss decisions with other judges prior to turning in ballots. Timekeepers may share the length of
a given speech only. If questions arise regarding the rules or conduct of an event, judges shall ask at
the judge lounge.
13.10.3. Length. There is no minimum time limit; contestants shall speak no more than five minutes with a 30-
second period of grace including the introduction and reading.
Time signals may be given at the speaker’s request; however, presentation within the time length is
ultimately the responsibility of the speaker.
Contestants who violate the time limit may receive a lower rank. No contestant may be penalized if a
stopwatch was not used for timing.
13.10.4. Introduction. Each reader shall appropriately introduce the material. Introductions should be memorized
or delivered extemporaneously.
13.10.5. Presentation. The materials are to be read from a manuscript or printed page. Continued practice during
the time of preparation may result in memorization of some passages. The aim of the reader, however,
should not be complete memorization. Rather frequent references must be made to the manuscript
during the presentation of the materials.
Contestants may use limited gestures while standing primarily in one place. The purpose of the speaker
is to entertain the audience by suggestion of the characters, moods and changes in plot through voice,
facial expression and limited movement and gesture.
Judges should be aware that most speakers in LIELL have not mastered precise pronunciation; their
accents should not be held against them. It is appropriate, however, for a judge to write helpful
comments on how to pronounce something correctly.
13.10.7. Materials. The materials shall be cuttings from published, printed short stories, novels, poems or scripts.
This is a contest of interpretation of any published work. No speaker shall be penalized for lack of
dialogue.
13.10.8. Re-use. No student may use a cutting from the same source, which he used in any contest previous to the
current school year.
13.10.9. Overlap. Students may not use the same material, or cuttings from the same source, in LIELL and any
other interpretation event.