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Stice, Carole Kirchner – 1978
Designed to assess a reader's comprehension of items differing in contrastive vocal stress, this test consists of 64 items divided evenly between eight sentence types: declarative active, declarative passive, interrogative, and imperative, with each in a positive and negative form. The element of contrastive stress is placed on nouns functioning…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intonation, Language Usage, Measures (Individuals)
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. Direction de l'education francaise. – 2002
This document, written in French, represents the final version of the curriculum for the study of French as a first language in Alberta's secondary schools. The curriculum addresses the following skills: Oral communication (listening, interaction, presentation); reading; and writing. An appendix provides a variety of charts, tables,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Foreign Countries, French, Native Language Instruction
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. Direction de l'education francaise. – 2002
This document, written French, represents the final version of the curriculum for the study of French as a first language in Alberta's secondary schools. The curriculum addresses the following skills: Oral communication (listening, interaction, presentation); reading; and writing. An annex provides a variety of charts, tables, questionnaires, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Foreign Countries, French, Native Language Instruction
Toperoff, Debby – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1991
Problems with the oral Bagrut are discussed, including the complicated rating scale, complicated administration requirements, lack of conformity in materials, unsuitable tests, monologue approach, and scoring system. A suggested form for reporting scores is presented. (LB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, Language Tests
Pedersen, Elray L. – 1978
The three tests that make up this instrument are designed to assess the oral communication, grammatical fluency, and vocabulary development of students for whom English is a second language. The spoken English test comes in two versions: one with 90 items on a cassette tape, the other with 90 items to be read aloud by the examiner. Each version is…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Grammar
Agrelo-Gonzalez, Maria; And Others – 1992
The assessment packet includes a series of oral tests to help develop speaking as an integral part of second language instruction at levels II and III. It contains: 8 mini-tests for use at level II; 9 mini-tests for use at level III; a rating scale and score sheet masters for evaluating performance on these tests; and a collection of suggested…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Tests
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Yule, George; Hoffman, Paul – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
Results of a study of international graduate teaching assistant (ITA) language competence suggest that groups of undergraduates can provide a responsible majority vote regarding the readiness of an ITA to assume instructional duties, if those undergraduate focus on categories identified in a formal evaluation sheet. An evaluation sheet is…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Students
Rinnander, Elizabeth; Spinelli, Maria-Lydia – 1987
This handbook describes Los Angeles Pierce College's (LAPC's) English Skills Tutorial Package, which seeks to identify specific areas of strength and weakness in students' language proficiency and to strengthen those specific areas through discrete and holistic approaches and, sometimes, conscious coaching. Following introductory comments about…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Language Skills
Harper, Jane; Lively, Madeleine – 1987
The Department of Foreign Languages at Tarrant County (Texas) Junior College (TCJC) places primary instructional emphasis in elementary and intermediate language courses on the development of students' oral communication competence. Noting the differences in the oral proficiency of TCJC students and that of area high school graduates seeking…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education
Hood, Sue; Solomon, Nicky – 1988
This English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) assessment kit was designed for use by teachers and program managers who are involved in the initial interview, assessment, and referral of students and who are responsible for placement of learners in programs and classes. Its aims are to help the interviewer to: (1) identify the relative priority of…
Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, Check Lists, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
Harper, Jane; And Others – 1987
Since 1985, Tarrant County Junior College, Northeast Campus, in Hurst, Texas has offered workshops and classes for secondary school teachers of foreign languages. The series of 10 16-hour workshops held during summer 1987 were intended primarily as in-service training for secondary school foreign language teachers and secondarily as a retraining…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education
Martin, Sabrina Budasi; Garcia, Paula – 1997
The set of materials are designed for the assessment of literacy, English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL), listening and reading comprehension, and/or job-related skills of factory workers, and are based on work-related tasks. The materials consist of instructions for administering the test, a picture prompt booklet for the test administrator to use…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Field Tests, Interviews
Arlington County Public Schools, VA. – 1997
The rubrics are designed for productive use (speaking and writing) of English and Spanish in two-way bilingual immersion programs. The rubrics were developed by classroom teachers working in elementary school Spanish partial immersion programs, in consultation with a special education teacher, reading specialist, middle school partial immersion…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English, Evaluation Criteria