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Direct linkKissling, Elizabeth M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2014
This study investigated second language (L2) learners' perception of L2 sounds as an individual difference that predicted their improvement in pronunciation after receiving instruction. Learners were given explicit pronunciation instruction in a series of modules added to their Spanish as a foreign language curriculum and were then tested on their…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Pronunciation Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Shih, Chih-Min – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
This study investigated the washback of the General English Proficiency Test on English learning in Taiwan. The research sites were the applied foreign language departments of a university of technology and an institute of technology. The latter required day-division students to pass the first stage of the test's intermediate level or the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedHoward, Francoise – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1980
Discusses the concept of communicative competence in second language learning and various models for testing this skill. (AM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Language Instruction, Language Tests
Peer reviewedSavard, Jean-Guy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
Defining course objectives and testing these objectives are inseparable components of the education process. The development of a model using eleven language functions as the basis for testing communication in a second language is described. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Objectives, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
