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Native Speaker Performance Validity: In Vain or for Gain?

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Jafarpur, Abdoljavad – System, 1996

Explores the feasibility of native speaker performance criterion for validating tests for nonnative speakers. The article analyzes the results of a cloze test administered to 202 Americans and 323 students of English as a Foreign Language. Findings suggest that the efficacy of the cloze procedure is in question more than ever before. (72…

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)

The Relationship between Criterion-Based Levels of Oral Proficiency and Norm-Referenced Scores of General Proficiency in English as a Second Language.

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Reed, Daniel J. – System, 1992

Presents data from validation study of American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency (OPI). Distinctness of OPI ratings from scores generated by Test of English as a Foreign Language and one other examination is assessed on basis of comparisons among 70 sets of scores from students of English as Second Language who…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language), Higher Education