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Direct linkBrown, Alan V.; Cox, Troy L.; Thompson, Gregory L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and accompanying proficiency guidelines have become a mainstay in academic foreign language assessment. In 2006, an asynchronous electronic interface of the OPI was made available in which candidates are asked to record themselves responding to questions delivered aurally via computer, labeled the Oral…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Interviews
Watanabe, Suwako – Foreign Language Annals, 2003
This study focused on Japanese linguistic features that contribute to producing the paragraph-length and extended connected discourse that is expected at the Advanced and Superior levels in ACTFL oral proficiency interviews (OPIs). From 15 Japanese OPIs at the Intermediate-High through Superior levels, 3,062 predicates were identified. Frequent…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Connected Discourse, Japanese, Language Proficiency
Rubio, Fernando – Foreign Language Annals, 2003
This study compared the narratives of three groups of advanced speakers of Spanish with different learning backgrounds. The first group was made up of heritage speakers; the second group was composed of missionaries that had recently returned from a two-year sojourn in a Spanish-speaking country; and the third group comprised students who had…
Descriptors: Spanish, Advanced Students, Language Proficiency, Oral Language
