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Proficiency Assessment Standards in Second Language Acquisition Research: "Clozing" the Gap
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Tremblay, Annie – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
The present study aims to sensitize SLA researchers to the importance of documenting and controlling for their participants' proficiency in the target language, with the goal of establishing more robust proficiency assessment standards in experimental research. First, this article presents a survey of recent (2000-2008) foreign and second-language…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, French, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Replication and Reporting: A Commentary.
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Polio, Charlene; Gass, Susan – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Addresses the need for replication studies in the field of second-language acquisition and discusses the problems surrounding standards of reporting research. Notes a lack of uniform standards in reporting second-language learners' proficiency levels and proposes ways to achieve more thorough reporting of research that will allow others to engage…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Research, North American English, Problem Solving