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Peer reviewedLoughrin-Sacco, Steven J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1990
In addition to the benefits of the oral proficiency movement, problems are seen, including flaws in the claim that the testing is proficiency based, the potential misuse of competency-based education, and the Oral Proficiency Interview's inability to test nonlinguistic barriers to communication. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Competency Based Education, Interviews, Language Proficiency
