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ERIC Number: EJ275020
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981
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Issues in the Assessment of Language Proficiency of Language Minority Students.
Rivera, Charlene; Simich, Carmen
NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, v6 n1 p19-39 Fall 1981
The issues of language assessment and placement raise several important questions: (1) What are the basic premises upon which current language assessment instruments have been developed? (2) What is the state of the art in language proficiency assessment? (3) What implications do current research findings have for language proficiency assessment? (NQA)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Tests, Language Usage, Language Variation, Measurement Techniques, Test Reliability, Testing Problems
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency; Language Assessment; Language Minorities