Assistance in this study was provided by the Testing and Certification Division of the English Language Institute. (VM)

Excerpts from a recent report prepared by the Committee on Teacher Preparation Programs organized by an active state Foreign Language Teachers Association. All names of persons and places have been changed. (DS)

Sample tests included. Revised version of a talk given at a meeting of the Allgemeinen Deutschen Neuphilologen-Verband on November 14, 1969, in Dortmund, Germany. (DS)

Describes a summer program in Spanish conducted at the State University College of New York at Buffalo, New York. (DS)

Detailed discusion of the theoretical papers presented at the second conference on "Problems in Foreign Language Testing" held at the Idyllwild campus of the University of Southern California, November 1968, and a brief summation of the practical ones. Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1969. (FWB)

Report of findings which indicate that error analysis can be used as a method to test the predictive value of contrastive analysis and extend its power of pedagogical applications. (Author/FWB)

The validity of written cloze tests for measuring oral skills was evaluated by comparing cloze test scores with recorded interviews. It was concluded that the tests may be a good indirect measure of oral ability. The advantages of these tests include ease of construction, administration, and scoring. (MSE)

Discusses the establishment of a morpheme-per-utterance (MPU) index as opposed to the standard mean-length of utterance (MLU) for measuring the linguistic proficiency of two- to three-year-old Hebrew speakers. (EKN)