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McKay, Penny – Language Testing, 2000
Presents principles behind the construction of English-as-Second-Language (ESL) standards for schools, drawing on examples of ESL standards developed in Australia, England, Wales, and the United States. Examines how differences in purposes in these standards--planning, professional understanding, and reporting--influence how ESL standards might…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Reath, Anne – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2004
In 1993, the language section of the Swedish Migration Board initiated the production of documents they called "language analyses" to aid in the processing of asylum seekers. Today, 11 years later, 2 privately owned companies in Stockholm produce these documents. These companies have produced language analyses not only for the Swedish…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Police, Foreign Countries, Immigration
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Brindley, Geoff – Language Testing, 2001
Illustrates some of the issues that have arisen in the implementation of outcomes-based systems of assessment and reporting. Two examples from school and adult immigrant education in Australia are provided that demonstrate some of the political and technical problems involved in implementation in both high- and low-stakes contexts. Outlines ways…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency
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Johnston, Trevor – Deafness and Education International, 2004
The assessment of sign language proficiency is essential for evaluating the outcomes of sign bilingual education. This paper reports an attempt to assess the sign language proficiency of children in a self-described sign bilingual program in Sydney by adapting a British Sign Language (BSL) test to Australian Sign Language (Auslan). The test…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Ingram, D. E.; Wylie, Elaine – 1989
A discussion of language testing focuses on how proficiency scales are constructed and applied to communicative language assessment in Australian secondary schools. A variety of rating scale types are described and distinguished according to how they are constructed, what they attempt to measure, and what criteria they contain. A more detailed…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Martin, Anne L. – 1989
Two Australian language curriculum development projects are discussed: the Australian Language Levels (ALL) Project and the National Assessment Framework for Languages at Senior Secondary Level (NAFLSSL). While distinct, both projects are closely linked. Each project was launched in 1985 in a favorable climate and in response to cost, enrollment,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Italian
Connole, Patricia – Francais dans le Monde, 1974
The analysis of a film is proposed as an alternative for one of the two required text analyses in the French examination for the Higher School Certificate in Australia. This entails the addition of film courses to the general curriculum. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Development, Film Study
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Elder, Catherine; Davies, Alan – Language and Education, 1998
Considers effect of language distance--how distant the language is from English--on attainment of English language literacy, as measured by performance on an Australian English-as-a-Second-Language end-of-school examination for non-English speaking background students, who also sat for another examination in their first language. Study concludes…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Language Classification
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Erdener, V. Dogu; Burnham, Denis K. – Language Learning, 2005
Visual information from the face is an integral part of speech perception. Additionally, orthography can play a role in disambiguating the speech signal in nonnative speech. This study investigates the effect of audiovisual speech information and orthography on nonnative speech. Particularly, orthographic depth is of interest. Turkish transparent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech, Auditory Perception, Language Processing
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Lee, Yong-Won; Kantor, Robert – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
Possible integrated and independent tasks were pilot tested for the writing section of a new generation of TOEFL® (Test of English as a Foreign Language™) examination. This study examines the impact of various rating designs as well as the impact of the number of tasks and raters on the reliability of writing scores based on integrated and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
DIEFENBACH, H. J. – 1966
TO FIND THE CORRELATION BETWEEN FINAL RESULTS AND MARKS GAINED IN THE WRITTEN AND ORAL PARTS OF THE 1964 SENIOR GERMAN EXAMINATION, THE RESULTS OF THE TESTS OF 674 CANDIDATES WERE EXAMINED. THIS EXAMINATION, HELD AFTER THE FOURTH YEAR OF SECONDARY SCHOOLING AND USED AS A BASIS FOR UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND MATRICULATION, CONSISTED OF--(1) THE ORAL…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Education
Phillips, Don – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1987
The issues confronting Australian tertiary institutions in the assessment of non-English-speaking-background students are discussed. A survey of tertiary institutions that identified test instruments currently being used is described and some of these test instruments (SST and CULT tests) are discussed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Competence, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Eltis, K. J.; Cooney, G. H. – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, 1985
Describes "Project Languages," a research study which looked at: (1) reasons for language study, (2) its perceived contribution to secondary education, (3) availability of languages in the secondary schools, (4) reasons for the decline in numbers studying languages, (5) new developments in language offerings, and (6) current examination…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Enrollment, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction
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Lee, Jackie F. K. – World Englishes, 2001
Compares the linguistic acceptability of the various forms of "need" in non-assertive contexts (i.e. in interrogatives and negatives) between two speech communities: Australians as native speakers of English, and Hong Kong people as second or foreign language learners of English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High School Students
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Elder, Catherine; Manwaring, Diane – Language Awareness, 2004
The role of metalinguistic knowledge in learning a foreign/second language is the subject of continuing debate. In this paper we report on a study which explores this issue further with reference to undergraduate students of Chinese as a second/foreign language. The first part of the paper describes the process of developing and validating an…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Outcomes of Education, Undergraduate Students, Chinese
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