Oral tests for speaking skills evaluate two major skills: linguistic competence, including accuracy of pronunciation, vocabulary, and structure, and communication ease. Four factors affect students' oral performance: verbal intelligence, short-term auditory and visual memory, sound-symbol association skill, and grammatical analysis. Personality…

The analysis of a film is proposed as an alternative for one of the two required text analyses in the French examination for the Higher School Certificate in Australia. This entails the addition of film courses to the general curriculum. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Recent language testing research investigates factors other than language proficiency that may be responsible for systematic variance in language test performance. One such factor is the test takers' cognitive styles. The present study was carried out with the aim of finding the probable effects of Iranian EFL learners' cognitive styles on their…

Hauptschule (practical secondary school) pupils are more readily confused than Gymnasium (university-preparatory secondary school) pupils when confronted with false answers. Spelling tests should be designed with regard to the type of school. Introducing visual guides helps the Hauptschule pupils to better achievement in productive tests. (Text is…

This English textbook aims to determine minimum essentials in language and grammar, to provide methods for making correct form habitual, and to arrange the material so that it may be used in connection with the language work of the pupils outside the language recitation. Exercises, drills, games, and tests are employed. Objective measures of…

The second book in this English textbook series aims to determine minimum essentials in language and grammar, to provide methods for making correct form habitual, and to arrange the material so that it may be used in connection with the language work of the pupils outside the language recitation. Exercises, drills, games, and tests are employed.…

The recent psycholinguistic-sociolinguistic trend in foreign language teaching indicates a shift of interest away from quantitative data towards qualitative information of different kinds. Validity and relevance are stressed and so new test formats are demanded, as well as new methods of dealing with student answers. Item analysis techniques used…

THIS REPORT, BASED ON TESTS GIVEN TO HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS IN THE SPRING, 1967, DESCRIBES THE SLIGHT CHANGES MADE IN TESTING PROCEDURES AND GIVES TEST AND PLACEMENT RESULTS FOR 2,646 STUDENTS IN FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, AND LATIN. TENTATIVE PLACEMENT IN FRENCH, GERMAN, AND SPANISH WAS BASED ON SCORES OBTAINED ON MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION READING…

AUDIOLINGUAL TEACHING METHODS HAVE CREATED THE NEED FOR NEW TESTING TECHNIQUES IN THE FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS OF LISTENING, SPEAKING, AND WRITING. VARIOUS CURRENT METHODS AND SPECIFIC STANDARDIZED TESTS FOR EVALUATING EACH OF THE SKILLS, INCLUDING PURE SKILLS TESTS WHICH UTILIZE ONLY ONE SKILL IN BOTH STIMULUS AND RESPONSE AND HYBRID SKILLS TESTS…

Although cultural content is unavoidable as a backdrop for good language testing, cultural bias in testing English as a second language presents many dangers. A picture cue calling for a correct grammatical response may evoke an incorrect answer if the pictorial content is culturally coded. The cultural background behind a test must be accurately…

Two major hypotheses are currently at issue concerning the effects of semantic context on ambiguous word recognition: (1) the selective-retrieval hypothesis (SRH) maintains that a single meaning is retrieved from memory, and (2) the nonselective-retrieval hypothesis maintains that all meanings are retrieved from memory. To help clear up this…

This bibliography is divided into four main sections. The first section cites bibliographies dealing with language testing, while the second and third sections deal with books and articles in the same area. A fourth section lists test distributors' catalogues. Entries include publications from many countries. Most entries have been published since…