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Peer reviewedRaffaldini, Tina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1988
Discusses the ACTFL/ETS Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in relation to current models of communicative skills and argues that the OPI fails to measure important aspects of communicative ability. Two Situation Tests, one written and one oral, are described as alternative measures of communicative ability. Examples are given in Appendices.…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Testing, Higher Education
Download full textDoyle, Michael Scott – 1988
The situation card used in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/Educational Testing Service (ACTFL/ETS) Oral Proficiency Interview provides a kind of linguistic-topographical map of the student's foreign language ability by measuring what the student of business Spanish is able or unable to do in business situations in that…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Higher Education, Language Proficiency
