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The Use of Situation Tests as Measures of Communicative Ability.

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Raffaldini, Tina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1988

Discusses the ACTFL/ETS Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in relation to current models of communicative skills and argues that the OPI fails to measure important aspects of communicative ability. Two Situation Tests, one written and one oral, are described as alternative measures of communicative ability. Examples are given in Appendices.…

Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Testing, Higher Education

Another Look at Correlations between the Oral Proficiency Interview and the Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache.

Vazulik, Johannes; Brown, Cheri – 1989

A study supplementing earlier research by Lalande and Schweckendiek investigated comparisons and correlations obtained from testing a group of 17 university students of German using both the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and the most recent revision of the examination for the…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Correlation, German