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Peer reviewedSparks, Richard L.; Ganschow, Leonore; Artzer, Marjorie E.; Siebenhar, David; Plageman, Mark – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
Two studies explore the relationship between foreign language teachers' perceptions of their students' academic skills and affective characteristics and their native language skills, foreign language aptitude, and oral and written foreign language proficiency. In Study I (replication), students who scored significantly lower on native language and…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Language Proficiency, Language Aptitude, Language Teachers
Direct linkMathews, Thomas J.; Hansen, Cheryl M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This paper reviews the process a university foreign language department went through in developing a procedure to assess its curriculum using the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and, to a lesser extent, the National Standards, as guiding principles (National Standards, 1996). This procedure included a noncredit workshop that met only once to inform…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, National Standards, Achievement Tests, Language Proficiency
