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Direct linkCarmen Muñoz, Editor; Imma Miralpeix, Editor – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2024
This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input, conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills, such as vocabulary, pronunciation, and reading, while also considering learner factors, such…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Linguistic Input
Cummins, Jim – Multilingual Matters, 2021
Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Theory, Language Fluency
Oller, John W., Jr., Ed. – 1983
Practical and technical aspects of language testing research are considered in 23 articles. Topical areas include: testing of general proficiency; the hypothesis of a single unitary factor accounting for reliable variance in tests; the structure of language proficiency; pros and cons of cloze testing; a new functional testing approach; and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
PDF pending restorationRees, M. E. Gwenda – 1954
This pamphlet outlines an attempt to provide an instrument by which the linguistic background of Welsh children can be measured. In a group of Welsh-speaking children there are different degrees of Welshness, and it is essential, for educational purposes, that the degrees of Welsh linguistic background be estimated. The two versions of the Welsh…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Educational Testing, Family Characteristics
Buros, Oscar K., Ed. – 1975
This monograph consists of the foreign language sections of the seven "Mental Measurements Yearbooks" (1938-1972) and "Tests in Print II" (1974). The brief foreign language test descriptions from TIP II, totaling 105, are provided first, followed by the lengthier reviews, which total 184, from each of the seven MMYs. In…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English (Second Language), French, German
Download full textJones, Randall L., Ed.; Spolsky, Bernard, Ed. – 1975
This publication is a compilation of the papers presented at the 1974 Washington Language Testing Sumposium. The volume also includes much of the discussion that followed each paper. The participants were an international group of language testing specialists from academic institutions, research centers, and government agencies. The primary focus…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Curriculum Guides, Language Ability, Language Fluency
