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Ryan, Ellen Bouchard; Collins, Carol – 1975
Question-answer interactions were chosen as an effective means of investigating the effect of the linguistic environment on language development. Research was reviewed indicating that the improvement in question and answer performance of a maturing child is based on the advancement of both his linguistic and cognitive abilities and that the adult…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Adams, Marianne Lehr, Ed. – 1978
A manual for use in training French and Spanish language examiners at the Foreign Service Institute is presented here. After a discussion of the history of the language proficiency test and of the testing procedure and evaluation techniques, the following topics are covered: (1) language proficiency ratings based on the absolute criterion of the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Interviews, Language Fluency