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Bing Mu; LeAnne Spino – Modern Language Journal, 2025
Developing proficiency and intercultural competence are goals promoted by the Modern Language Association and widely shared by postsecondary second language programs across the United States. Although the development of proficiency has been studied extensively in this context, comparatively little is known about how intercultural competence…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Competence, College Second Language Programs
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Belasco, Simon – Modern Language Journal, 1983
Offers some insights into why students rarely attain proficiency in a second language. Suggests organizing a second language program in such a way as to encourage students to spend the time required to become proficient. (EKN)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction, Student Role
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Zorach, C. C. – Modern Language Journal, 1983
Outlines the foreign language requirements of the University of Michigan's Residential College, including the five-part proficiency exam, covering all four language skills. (EKN)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Jurasek, Richard – Modern Language Journal, 1982
Discusses a four-year project now in the second year at Earlham College to increase the use both by faculty and students of foreign languages. Provides the background to the project, the detailed objectives, and abbreviated comments on accomplishments to date. (EKN)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Higher Education
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Hagiwara, Peter – Modern Language Journal, 1983
Issues in the foreign language placement of college students are discussed: the necessity of a placement test for all incoming students, selection of such a test from the available options, decline of student performance in the last 20 years, and articulation courses from high school to college. (MSE)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, College Second Language Programs, College Students
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Valdes, Guadalupe; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1988
Briefly describes a four-semester Spanish language program focused on developing listening skills, and explains, in detail, the design of the final listening examination. The listening comprehension levels developed by 196 students in this program are evaluated. A sample student test and sample of level and complexity of language heard are…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Walz, Joel – Modern Language Journal, 1986
Discusses whether the goal of language proficiency is reasonable or even possible given the language textbooks available. Examines the description of the French language in college-level French language textbooks (all of which take a structural approach) to see if they lend themselves to the acquisition of a functional speaking ability. (SED)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, College Second Language Programs, Content Analysis, Educational Objectives
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Day, James T. – Modern Language Journal, 1987
Foreign summer language programs offer many advantages to students, but students may only receive superficial contact with the host culture and language and may be motivated only by their wish to have a memorable experience abroad. Suggestions are presented to ensure academic validity of such programs in the areas of motivation, academic credit,…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Culture Contact, Educational Quality