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Rifkin, Benjamin – Foreign Language Annals, 2003
In this article, the author describes the place of the oral proficiency guidelines as the only nationally recognized criteria for the assessment of communicative competence in speaking across languages and discusses learning outcomes studies based on the proficiency guidelines. The guidelines are now 20 years old, but learning outcomes are not…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency, Oral Language