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An Exploratory Study of the Hypothesis of Divisible versus Unitary Competence in Second Language Proficiency.
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Barbour, Ross Patrick – 1983
The question of dividing language proficiency into components was explored by determining which of three models best fit the experimental data: a model postulating numerous specific sources of variance (the extreme divisible model), one postulating a single, large source of variance (the unitary model), or one postulating a large general factor…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Factor Analysis, Language Proficiency