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ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines--Speaking: Revised 1999.
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Breiner-Sanders, Karen E.; Lowe, Pardee, Jr.; Miles, John; Swender, Elvira – Foreign Language Annals, 2000
Discusses the revision of the 1986 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages guidelines for evaluating speaking proficiency. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Language Proficiency, Oral Language
Keeping the Optic Constant: A Framework of Principles for Writing and Specifying the AEI Definitions of Language Abilities.
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Lowe, Pardee, Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1998
Examines the need to keep constant the optic, the framework within which AEI definitions are written. Both the Interagency Language Roundtable Language Skill Level Descriptions and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages guidelines are revised and more fully specified. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Tests
Rating Reading Passages According to the ACTFL Reading Proficiency Standard: Can It Be Learned?
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Lange, Dale L.; Lowe, Pardee, Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1988
Investigates the degree to which potential users of language reading proficiency scales acquire the standard for accurately grading reading passages of foreign-language learners. A five-day workshop helped users of the guidelines rank reading passages for levels of difficulty and rate them accurate according to the ACTFL scales. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Tests
Setting the Stage: Constraints on ILR Receptive Skills Testing.
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Lowe, Pardee, Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1984
Discusses foreign language testing methods, particularly of receptive skills, and how the choice of method for any particular government agency is subject to the constraints imposed by the following factors: (1) method of correction, (2) ease of production and number of exam versions required, (3) content of the test, and (4) administration of the…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension Tests, Listening Skills
"The" Question.
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Lowe, Pardee, Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1984
Examines the suggestions found in Michael Canale's paper, "Considerations in the Testing of Reading and Listening Proficiency," in the light of a possible U.S. Government's Interagency Language Roundtable receptive skills proficiency test which must supply the answer to the question of how well an individual can understand a particular language.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Language Proficiency, Language Tests