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Noboru Sakai – Journal of Educators Online, 2025
This study aims to investigate ChatGPT's ability to comprehend input from nonnative speakers, specifically those learning English as a second language, with Japanese speakers serving as the model population. The experiment examines how ChatGPT evaluates the difficulty levels of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Vladislavovich, Serikov Vladislav; Alexandrovna, Loktyushina Elena; Konstantinovna, Pichugina Viktoria – International Education Studies, 2014
The article shows that foreign language skills influence the professional success in a globalized economy. Training experts who are able to use foreign languages at the level required for professional communications is highly urgent for today's Russia, however there is hardly any experience of training such experts in accordance with international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Second Language Learning, Language Skills
Kang, Hyun-Sook; Kim, In-sop – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
A growing body of literature has explored issues surrounding the maintenance and development of a minority heritage language among immigrants and their children in relation to their ethnic identities in multi-ethnic societies. However, most of the studies either have alluded to heritage learners' language competence by way of their attitudes and…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Ethnicity, Self Concept, Ideology

Irvine, Patricia; And Others – Language Learning, 1974
The TOEFL was taken by 159 non-native speakers of English in Tehran, Iran, who also took a cloze test and two dictations. Results revealed that Listening Comprehension, cloze and dictation were more highly correlated with each other, and with the remaining parts of the TOEFL, than the latter were with each other. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Skills

Taylor, David S. – Applied Linguistics, 1988
Explores the different ways in which the term "competence" has been used in linguistics, considers the difficulties that arise when the term is used outside the domain for which it was originally intended. Making a clear distinction between "competence" and "proficiency" helps to resolve these difficulties. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Fluency, Language Proficiency, Language Skills

Woodsworth, John A. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1972
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Learning Theories, Linguistic Competence
Ladmiral, Jean-Rene – Langages, 1972
Special issue on translation. (VM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Interference (Language), Language Skills, Learning Activities

Tarone, Elaine – Language Learning, 1974
A model of speech perception and production is suggested here which attempts to account for different rates of acquisition of perceptual and productive skill in the second language without assuming the existence of two separate second language grammars. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency

Dulay, Heidi; Burt, Marina – Language Learning, 1974
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)

Stern, H. H. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
Discusses the strategies of good language learning and names ten features that mark the good language learner. (KM)
Descriptors: Language Ability, Language Fluency, Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels

Rae, V. – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1976
The "dictee" as a method of language testing is discussed. Commonly made mistakes are described, and ways to help the student perform well discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Skills, Language Tests, Linguistic Competence

Smelcer, Patricia A.; And Others – System, 1980
Examines the linguistic awareness of the translation process by analyzing the self-corrections made by native speakers and matching subjects' self-perception of what they had done with what they actually did in order to establish a set of parameters of linguistic awareness. Contains extensive bibliographic references. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Ability, Language Processing, Language Skills
Bradshaw, John – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
Asserts that language mastery should be judged separately from knowledge, reasoning ability and personality traits. Recognition of and communication of intention are discussed as key factors in language mastery, and the skills of reading, speaking, writing and comprehension are described as independent skills. (RM)
Descriptors: Language Ability, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Learning Levels
Sewell, Penny – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
The typical day of a student travelling in France is outlined, with discussion of the different types of language he would be exposed to. Ways in which classroom teaching can provide similar experience are suggested, and abilities involved in listening and reading which are not language-specific are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Content, French, Language Instruction, Language Skills
Graham, Robert H.; Hansen, W. Lee – Mod Lang J, 1970
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Dissertations