Through example, shows that the accuracy of the assessment of language competence, performance, and dominance of the potentially bilingual student may be seriously impaired by inappropriate conditions of observation and lack of knowledge by the assessor. (TO)

Appeal to the profession to correct the weaknesses of the French language program in Australian secondary schools. (HW)

Second and concluding part of a continued article. (SK)

Concluding part of a continued article. (SK)

Tests which the foreign language competence of the learner are the chief focus of the discussion, and the following aspects of such tests are discussed: purpose level, type, selection, form, gradation, order, number of items, administration of test, correction, and validation. (FB)

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) in November 1971, in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)

Earlier version of this paper was published in "Studies I" (The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian English Contrastive Project, 1969, p3-12). (DS)

Suggests a functional definition of levels in the preparation of proficiency tests which would test the student's ability to operate in a specified sociolinguistic situation with specified ease or effect. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (AMM)

Based on a paper read at the Third Annual Conference, International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, in London, England, December 1969. (DS)