Speech delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL), December 26, 1969, in Denver, Colorado. (DS)

Discusses factors pertinent to evaluating various language performances of elementary school children. (SW)

Detailed discusion of the theoretical papers presented at the second conference on "Problems in Foreign Language Testing" held at the Idyllwild campus of the University of Southern California, November 1968, and a brief summation of the practical ones. Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1969. (FWB)

A study of 12 Korean immigrant children, aged seven-and-a-half to 12, found significant positive correlations among level of self-concept, degree of language proficiency, and school adaptation and achievement. (Author/MJL)

A faculty member's experiment to test the hypothesis that choice of an academic major is related to a student's ease in written and aural skills in a foreign language is described. Majors were given values according to their aural or analytical characteristics, and correlated with achievement. No significant relationship was found. (MSE)

Notes that children who speak little or no English are often placed in regular classrooms without benefit of help from bilingual programs. Offers ideas classroom teachers can use in helping these children learn to read. (FL)

Gives an overview of the development and testing of an interview instrument used by teachers of English as a second language to assess the oral proficiency of nonnative speakers. (The actual instrument is reprinted in the article that follows this one). (SK)