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Enhancing Instructor Candidate Oral Proficiency through Interdepartmental Collaboration
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Kissau, Scott; Davin, Kristin J.; Wang, Chuang – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
National trends indicate that approximately half of world language instructor candidates in the United States struggle to meet the benchmark oral proficiency standard established by ACTFL (Kissau, 2014; Swender, 2003) and measured by the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). Given the critical instructor shortage, more needs to be done to help…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Effective Foreign Language Teaching: Broadening the Concept of Content Knowledge
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Kissau, Scott; Algozzine, Bob – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
Studies investigating teacher candidate performance on traditional assessments of content knowledge place emphasis on just one of many skills needed to be an effective foreign language teacher; they also fail to explain why many teacher candidates with advanced oral proficiency struggle in the classroom and why some with less advanced language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Language Teachers
The Impact of the Oral Proficiency Interview on One Foreign Language Teacher Education Program
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Kissau, Scott – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) has been increasingly used in academia. However, while multiple studies have documented the growth in OPI implementation across the United States and the proficiency rates of its completers, few have focused specifically on foreign language teacher candidates, and even fewer have investigated the impact that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Teacher Education