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Download full textBarnwell, David Patrick – 1993
Language testing historians have tended to ignore a significant period in the evolution of language tests, the years 1883-1929. In the earliest years, testing focused on knowledge about, not of, the language and reflected the teaching of Latin and Greek more than that of living languages. Grammatical formalism and translation were emphasized, and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Educational History, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction
Keesee, Elizabeth – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
The growing practice of beginning instruction in a modern foreign language in the elementary school has created a need for many classroom teachers to become oriented to a whole new field of foreign-language teaching methodology and materials. Since teachers tend to think of language instruction in terms of the English-language arts, the language…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Age, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
