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Paulus, Linda – Hispania, 1998
An oral testing method used in an intensive high school Spanish program is based on a model of communicative competence positing four forms of competence: strategic; sociolinguistic; discourse; and linguistic. All oral domains but linguistic are tested in the first and second years. In the first year, benchmark testing occurs. The rubric used has…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), High Schools, Language Tests, Oral Language
Clark, John L. D. – 1986
This handbook resulted from a project to develop a tape-based alternative test of language proficiency in less commonly taught languages. The objective was to produce a test that is modeled on and readily interpretable by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/Interagency Language Roundtable (ACTFL/ILR) proficiency guidelines…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Chinese, Communicative Competence (Languages), Correlation