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Enhancing Instructor Candidate Oral Proficiency through Interdepartmental Collaboration
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Kissau, Scott; Davin, Kristin J.; Wang, Chuang – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
National trends indicate that approximately half of world language instructor candidates in the United States struggle to meet the benchmark oral proficiency standard established by ACTFL (Kissau, 2014; Swender, 2003) and measured by the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). Given the critical instructor shortage, more needs to be done to help…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Developing Oral Proficiency in Spanish across Class Modalities
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Moneypenny, Dianne Burke; Aldrich, Rosalie S. – CALICO Journal, 2018
There is a growing demand for online course options, including classes offered and required in foreign languages. However, offering courses in multiple formats presents the challenges of developing high quality online courses and assessing the overall program effectiveness as students may elect to take the sequenced language acquisition courses in…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Oral Language