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Genesee, Fred – 1981
A review of literature on foreign language testing indicates that the earliest approaches to language assessment were generally uninformed by contemporaneous linguistic and psychological theories and were characterized by a lack of psychometric sophistication. This trend was followed by the development of test instruments that were heavily…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Research
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Bruck, Maggie; Genesee, Fred – Journal of Child Language, 1995
This study compared the performance of English-speaking children attending French schools (bilingual group) on phonological awareness tests with same age English-speaking children attending English schools. Results of the study are interpreted to reflect the role of second-language input in phonological awareness. (JL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, English, Foreign Countries