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Jan 20, 2007 · The paper tries to articulate a concept of linguistic competence which can be converted into language tests. A test was devised on this basis and administered to groups of native...
Nov 20, 2007 · The paper tries to articulate a concept of linguistic competence which can be converted into language tests. A test was devised on this basis and administered to groups of native and non-native speakers of German.
- Christian Lehmann
- 2007
Nov 20, 2007 · The paper tries to articulate a concept of linguistic competence which can be converted into language tests. A test was devised on this basis and administered to groups of native and non-native speakers of German.
Sep 29, 2023 · The alignment of tests to LPS levels could provide learners with a valuable sense of their current language ability and a more detailed and comprehensive view of students’ linguistic profiles (Sufi et al., 2021).
- Validity
- The Unitary Trait Hypothesis
- Models and Frameworks of Communicative Competence and Language Proficiency
- Proficiency Scales
In the first issue of the journal Language Testing , Davies (1984, p. 50) observed that language testing is a domain that draws heavily upon issues and methods central to psychological testing and educational measurement. Indeed, a working knowledge of the technical aspects of measurement is fundamental to the construction and analysis of tests in ...
Language testing research in the 1970s was so preoccupied with John Oller’s Unitary Trait Hypothesis and cloze procedure that Stansfield (2008) remarked, “one could call this the decade of John Oller” (p. 312, italics original). Oller was influenced by Carroll’s research on intelligence, as well as his use of factor analysis and the introduction of...
Few articles have had greater influence on the development of both language testing and applied linguistics than Canale and Swain’s (1980) Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing. Chomsky (1965) held that the proper domain of inquiry for linguistics was the investigation of linguistic competence as repr...
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency guidelines are perhaps the best known instantiation of an attempt to represent communicative competence and language proficiency testing in a manner that has direct reference to classroom teaching. The preface to the guidelines reads: Both teachers and testers readily ack...
- April Ginther, Kyle McIntosh
- 2018
Jun 1, 2017 · This paper argues that the study of the competence types in linguistics not only paved the way to a better understanding of how language is produced and perceived by language users, but...
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Nov 20, 2007 · The paper tries to articulate a concept of linguistic competence which can be converted into language tests. A test was devised on this basis and administered to groups of native and non-native speakers of German.
