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Peer reviewedBahns, Jens; Eldaw, Moira – System, 1993
German advanced English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students' productive knowledge of English collocations consisting of a verb and a noun were investigated in a translation task and a close task. Results suggest that EFL students should concentrate on collocations that cannot readily be paraphrased. The tasks are appended. (32 references)…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Idioms
Peer reviewedScheibner-Herzig, Gudrun; Stabener, Helga – System, 1980
Reports a study wherein a foreign language aptitude test was used to group German students beginning English language instruction in three types of German intermediate schools. Students were tested periodically to determine if the groups originally established were maintained. By the end of the second year, they were not. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Language Aptitude
Peer reviewedBauer, Hannspeter – System, 1991
Discusses the "sore-finger" form of multiple choice test items. "Sore finger" items employ authentic texts making use of the rules of text grammar, achieve high discrimination levels, and show a high validity for several subtests, especially style tests. The use of sore finger items in German nationwide English and German tests…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, German, Grammar
