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A Longitudinal Study of the Oral Language Development of Texas Bilingual Children (Spanish-English): Findings From the Second Year. Analysis Procedures and Summary Statistics of the Language Data.

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Hoover, Wesley A. – 1981

The Bilingual Reading Study employs several measures of oral language proficiency: (1) a standardized oral language proficiency test, the Language Assessment Scales (LAS); (2) teacher ratings on the Student Operational Language Assessment Scale (SOLA); (3) teacher ratings on the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) Oral Language…

Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Bilingual Students, Correlation, Language Acquisition

Comparative Validity of Three English Oral Language Proficiency Tests.

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Schrank, Fredrick A.; And Others – Bilingual Research Journal, 1996

Examines three English oral language proficiency tests in terms of whether the tests measure basic interpersonal communication skills or cognitive-academic language proficiency. Suggests that oral language proficiency tests should be academic in nature if their purpose is to determine whether language-minority students can meet the demands of…

Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Concurrent Validity, Early Childhood Education, English (Second Language)