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Download full textChicago Board of Education, IL. Dept. of Curriculum. – 1975
These guidelines provide information about a program implementing State of Illinois legislation whereby school boards are empowered to grant one unit of foreign language credit to students exhibiting proficiency in a language other than English. The guide describes the types of students who are eligible for the program and the procedures for…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Education, Curriculum Guides, High Schools
Gleason, Thomas P.; Rankine, Fred C. – 1977
An experimental bilingual bicultural French language program for kindergarten students in a former French-speaking area of Western Newfoundland was initiated in an integrated primary school in September 1975. The experimental class of thirty students was taught entirely in French while the control group received twenty minutes of French per day…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, French
Crable, Elaine Ann; Johnson, David – 1976
A study was carried out to test the hypothesis that a difference exists between the results of a paradigmatic/syntagmatic word association test given in an individual's native language and in his second language. The sample used in this study consists of 23 Iranian officers attending a course at Air University in Alabama. Their primary language is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes
Wilson, Craig B. – 1977
The experiment reported measured the degree to which cloze tests deliberately biased on the basis of contrastive analysis would actually be harder for Vietnamese than for speakers of other languages. The experiment tested the approach to ESL (English as a second language) for Vietnamese described in a guide for teachers of Vietnamese refugees…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Garza, Sylvia Gil – 1976
Numerous instruments used by school districts to assess language dominance are not designed to determine either language dominance or proficiency. Nor do they yield sufficient data for appropriate program placement. One example of such an instrument is the Del Rio Language Screening Test (DRLST), designed to screen children of three to seven years…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Slark, Julie; Bateman, Harold – 1981
A study was conducted in 1980-81 at Santa Ana College (SAC) to collect data on the English communication skills of non-native English speakers and to determine if a relationship existed between these skills and student's educational success. A sample of 22 classes, with an enrollment of at least 50% non-native English speakers and representing a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Community Colleges, Correlation
Lightbown, Patsy M.; Barkman, Bruce – 1978
The first year of a three-year longitudinal study of the English language development of 175 French-speaking elementary and secondary school students in Quebec, Canada, is described. The major study goals are: to obtain precise longitudinal information on ESL development; to describe aspects of classroom interaction, including language used by the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationClark, Marybeth; Hubbard, Katherine E. – 1977
This teaching guide accompanies the speech skills and reading comprehension portions of a course in English as a second language for adult nursing aide students. The rationale of course organization is explained. The reading teacher is given general instructions on testing and review and the use of Cloze passages. The speech teacher is provided…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Cloze Procedure, English for Special Purposes
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1960
Book three, part one, of an intermediate-advanced level German refresher course for college students ls presented. The volume consists of 42 lessons of text material and 42 prerecorded tapes. A typical unit is made up of spontaneous dialogues, substitution drills, and tests. A dialogue for listening is a short conversation between German speakers…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language)
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1960
Book three, part two, of an intermediate-advanced level German refresher course for college students is presented. The volume consists of 42 lessons of text material and 42 prerecorded tapes. A typical unit is made up of spontaneous dialogues, substitution drills, and tests. A dialogue for listening is a short conversation between German speakers…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language)
Bachman, Lyle F.; Palmer, Adrian S. – 1979
In a study designed to validate oral language proficiency tests, it is planned to administer a series of tests to 100 native Mandarin Chinese-speaking subjects (foreign students and their spouses). The tests will measure communicative competence in speaking (ability to speak, exhibiting control of linguistic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic rules;…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
BARRUTIA, RICHARD – 1967
TESTING IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS BECAUSE THE NATURE OF AUDIOLINGUAL TEACHING REQUIRES GREAT AMOUNTS OF FEEDBACK, REINFORCEMENT, AND VERIFICATION. TESTS CAN MEASURE APTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT, CAN DIAGNOSE, AND, MOST IMPORTANT, CAN BE AN EFFECTIVE TEACHING TOOL. MANY TEACHING TECHNIQUES ARE EXCELLENT FOR TESTING AND SOME…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Tests, Diagnostic Tests
Silvaroli, Nicholas J.; And Others – 1977
This measure is designed to identify, assess, and diagnose the oral language capability of English and Spanish speakers, and to prescribe corrective or improvement activities. Part One provides minimum criteria to identify children who might need training in a second language. Part Two is designed to assess the child's primary or home language and…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Alamelu, L. V. – Newsletter of Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, 1978
English grammar testing practices from the middle school level to the first two years of the bachelor's degree in India are examined, and suggestions for change are presented. Ten to thirty percent of the total marks allotted to question papers in English are set aside for the testing of grammar and usage. It is argued that syllabuses at present…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Objectives, English (Second Language)
Palmberg, Rolf; And Others – 1979
Three measure of English language proficiency (a partial dictation [Cloze] test, a text-reading and recollection test, and a story-telling test) were administered to three groups of college-level students (Finns, Swedish-Finns, and Swedes). The results are analyzed in several articles presented here: (1) "The Comprehension of Function Words…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension
