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Using the ACTFL OPIc to Assess Proficiency and Monitor Progress in a Tertiary Foreign Languages Program

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Isbell, Daniel R.; Winke, Paula; Gass, Susan M. – Language Testing, 2019

Language tests are useful for many purposes, including monitoring language learning progress and evaluating language programs. This study investigated the interpretations and usefulness of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview -- Computer (OPIc) scores across four languages at a large US…

Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Language Tests

Background Characteristics and Oral Proficiency Development over Time in Lower-Division College Foreign Language Programs

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Zhang, Xiaowan; Winke, Paula; Clark, Shaunna – Language Learning, 2020

Answering calls to map college-level proficiency development (Modern Language Association, 2007) and longitudinally chart language learning (Barkaoui, 2014; Ortega & Byrnes, 2008), we mapped the oral proficiency growth of 1,922 lower-division college students of Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish (in the second, third, or fourth semester of…

Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, College Second Language Programs, College Students