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A Comparison of Listening and Speaking Tests for Student Placement.
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Heller, Anne; And Others – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1995
This study investigated the utility and effectiveness of a simple dictation test for placement of students in a university's summer English-as-a-Second-Language program. The dictation test was explored as an alternative to the traditional oral interview, which had shown some problems of interrater reliability and consistency, resulting in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dictation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries