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Download full textBarnwell, David – 1986
Approaches to the testing of foreign language proficiency have tended to mirror prevailing philosophies in foreign language teaching, and for many years, no serious effort was made to devise oral proficiency measures. However, after World War II, structural linguistics applied to the classroom produced audiolingualism, which was a method heavily…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Proficiency, Language Research
