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Green, Peter – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
Discusses differences in second language students which account for differences in success. Four factors--intelligence, parental support, previous experience and language aptitude--were used in the York study to predict language learning success. Results of those tests are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Language Instruction, Language Tests
Vanek, Marianne; Woodhall, Michael – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1970
Describes the preparation, structure and experimental testing of an examination designed to test student achievement in the subsidiary German course at the Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, one of several subsidiary language courses aimed at giving Modern Language students a sound working knowledge of a third language. (FB)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Experiments, German, Language Instruction
James, Carl – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
The prime contention of this paper is that applied linguists are capable of making a more substantial contribution than they have hitherto to the field of Language Skills Measurement. (Author)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Skills, Language Tests, Linguistic Performance
Meara, Paul – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
Two kinds of objective tests are discribed which are fairly easy to construct and which stress overall language ability and language predictability. Cloze tests involve filling in passages from which every nth word is missing; noise tests the interpretation of recordings on which noise is superimposed. (RM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Language Instruction, Language Tests, Objective Tests
Sewell, Penny – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
A definition of objective test items is given. The disadvantages and advantages of objective tests are discussed, and some examples of objective items are given. Hints on writing objective items are offered, and some non-objective items are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Language Instruction, Language Tests, Objective Tests
Harding, Ann – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
Discusses diversity which has arisen in testing of productive skills at GCE O level. Criteria to apply in assessment of foreign language acquisition, and writing and speaking tests in particular, are discussed, as well as the weighting of writing and speaking at O level. (RM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Tests, Linguistic Performance, National Competency Tests
Sewell, Penny – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
Reports the procedure followed by members of the Testing and Evaluation Section, Schools Council Modern Languages Project, York, in producing test batteries to accompany the Nuffield/Schools Council language courses, the French course "En Avant" in particular. (RM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Course Content, Language Tests, Pretesting
McKinstry, Robert – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Language Instruction, Language Laboratories, Language Proficiency
Whitson, Valerie – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Language Tests
Harding, Ann – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
The transfer of students at 13+ from middle to high school requires high school teachers to assess heterogenous groups of children from different middle schools. Ways of predicting students' success at further language study are suggested. (RM)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Language Instruction, Language Skills, Language Tests
Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
Each section of the Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery and the CREDIF CGM 62 tests is briefly described. (RM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Language Aptitude, Language Instruction
Obanya, P. A. I. – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
This paper is the result of a study of ninety-two essays on three different topics by fifth-form pupils in the city of Ibadan. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns, Essay Tests
Kobersky, Eva – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Laboratories
Dyson, Peter – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
Describes analysis made of the results of candidates in 1973 Mode 1 examination in French of the North Western Secondary School Examinations Board which showed that less able language students performed disproportionately badly on tests of written self-expression. Implications for teacher and examiner are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Language Tests, Linguistic Performance
Wood, Robert – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1978
Ways of improving the present procedure for administering this test were determined in an experiment in which this procedure was compared with three others. (KM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, French, Language Instruction, Language Tests
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