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Temporal Fluency and Floor/Ceiling Scoring of Intermediate and Advanced Speech on the ACTFL Spanish Oral Proficiency Interview--Computer
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Cox, Troy L.; Brown, Alan V.; Thompson, Gregory L. – Language Testing, 2023
The rating of proficiency tests that use the Inter-agency Roundtable (ILR) and American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) guidelines claims that each major level is based on hierarchal linguistic functions that require mastery of multidimensional traits in such a way that each level subsumes the levels beneath it. These…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Scoring, Cues
A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Spanish Past Narrations from the ACTFL OPI and OPIc
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Brown, Alan V.; Cox, Troy L.; Thompson, Gregory L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and accompanying proficiency guidelines have become a mainstay in academic foreign language assessment. In 2006, an asynchronous electronic interface of the OPI was made available in which candidates are asked to record themselves responding to questions delivered aurally via computer, labeled the Oral…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Interviews