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Assessing Language Proficiency for Credit in Higher Education. ERIC Digest.

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Lange, Dale L. – 1990

This digest discusses the assessment of proficiency in a foreign language for credit in higher education. This refers to the process of awarding academic credit for tested proficiency in a foreign language rather than for the number of years a student has spent studying a particular language. The Proficiency Guidelines of the American Council for…

Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Case Studies, College Credits, Degree Requirements

Language Aptitude Reconsidered. Language in Education: Theory and Practice, No. 74.

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Parry, Thomas S., Ed.; Stansfield, Charles W., Ed. – 1990

Six of 11 papers presented at a symposium on language aptitude testing are included in this document. "Cognitive Abilities in Foreign Language Aptitude: Then and Now" (John B. Carroll) reconsiders language aptitude testing 30 years after publication of the Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT). "Preliminary Investigation of the…

Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aptitude Tests, Case Studies, Cognitive Ability