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Jax, Vicki A. – 1988
The paper, originally given at a 1986 Ethnic and Multicultural Symposium, reviews the language demands of schools and difficulties with conventional language proficiency measures in predicting the academic achievement of language minority children. It is suggested that language assessment include the assessment of syntactic competencies as well as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
