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Peer reviewedRivera, Charlene; Simich, Carmen – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1981
The issues of language assessment and placement raise several important questions: (1) What are the basic premises upon which current language assessment instruments have been developed? (2) What is the state of the art in language proficiency assessment? (3) What implications do current research findings have for language proficiency assessment?…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Tests
Shohamy, Elana – 1981
While the goal of language teaching has been the development of practical communication, most language tests have stressed mastery of discrete linguistic skills. Oral language performance-based testing requires test-takers to use and perform in the language in actual communicative situations. The variations in communication created by the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Correlation, Hebrew, Language Proficiency
