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Bebout, Linda – 1975
The major purposes of the study reported on in this paper were as follows: (1) to compare the errors made by advanced learners of English as a native language (American nine- to eleven-year-olds) and as a foreign language (native Spanish-speaking adults); (2) to investigate the usefulness of a modified cloze test in obtaining errors for profitable…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Testing, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Peer reviewedRoyer, James M.; Carlo, Maria S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1991
Measures of linguistic competence for limited-English-proficient students are discussed. The results for 134 students in grades 3 through 6 from a study of the reliability and validity of the Sentence Verification Technique tests as measures of listening and reading comprehension performance in native languages and English are reported. (TJH)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
