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Language Dominance Testing in the United States: A Review of Technological Advances since the 1940s.
Quezada, Rosa – 1981
The issue of language dominance testing is explored with special attention to: (1) a history of language testing in the United States from 1943 to 1974, (2) methods presently utilized for the determination of language dominance, (3) problems encountered in language dominance testing, and (4) some specific research that has been carried out related…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education, Language Dominance
Download full textBroeder, Peter; And Others – 1992
This paper addresses the potential value of language-related criteria for use in identifying ethnic minorities in the Netherlands. A description of the way the Dutch government defines ethnic minority groups is followed by a comparative outline of the use of language-related criteria in countries with a longer tradition of immigration (Australia,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Ethnicity, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Helmer, Susan – 1977
Assessment of the Spanish-speaking bilingual child's language dominance is essential to bilingual education, but to date there is no universally accepted way of doing this. There are many tests on the market which purport to measure language dominance and achievement, and which involve various criteria and methods. This paper describes four tests,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, Diagnostic Tests
PDF pending restorationSilverman, Robert J.; Russell, Randall H. – 1977
Before a bilingual program can be set up, students who are potential candidates for such a program must be identified. A study was made to investigate the interrelationships of three commonly used measures of "language dominance": the Language Facility Test (LFT), the Home Bilingual Usage Estimate (HBUE), and the Teacher Judgment Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers
Rodriguez-Brown, Flora; Elias-Olivares, Lucia – 1981
This paper focuses on the current developments in regard to the assessment of language proficiency in children who are from non-English speaking backgrounds. Instruments currently used to assess language proficiency for placement in English programs usually fail validity and reliability tests. These tests usually measure formal aspects of language…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bilingual Students, Children, Classroom Techniques
Benseler, David P., Ed. – 1976
The forty papers that make up the second part of the proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages cover a wide range of topics relating to foreign language teaching and linguistic theory: the interdisciplinary approach to second language instruction, individualized instruction, foreign…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education
