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Direct linkCox, 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
Rastelli, Stefano – Second Language Research, 2018
The topic of this article is the link between research on the neurocognition of the teaching--acquisition interface and research on second language teaching. This recent scientific enterprise investigates whether and how different aspects of second language instruction may change both the anatomy and the functioning of an adult learner's brain…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Neurolinguistics
Download full textSmith, Jerry – Online Submission, 2015
This paper discusses the similarities between the Bible record of the Tower of Babel and the resulting confusion of languages and how it relates to modern times and the trend we see of English as an International Language (EIL). This paper then briefly examines the trend of being culturally sensitive in EIL by accepting cultural or "world…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Phonetics
Ilieva, Gabriela Nik. – Heritage Language Journal, 2012
The present paper examines the oral performance of Hindi language learners during practice Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPI) conducted during workshops hosted by New York University and sponsored by STARTALK. The most salient characteristics of the heritage language learners' output are compared with the output of foreign language learners who are…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Boyson, Beverly A.; Semmer, Martha; Thompson, Lynn E.; Rosenbusch, Marcia H. – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
Educators have generally believed that foreign language instruction should begin in kindergarten or earlier to promote optimum oral language development (e.g., Abbott, 1998; Curtain & Dahlberg, 2010; Rhodes & Pufahl, 2010; Rosenbusch, 1991; Swender & Duncan, 1998). This article describes two Spanish programs in the Westport…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
