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Download full textStansfield, Charles W.; Kenyon, Dorry Mann – 1988
The development and validation of a Portuguese oral language test are described. The test consisted of five item types: personal conversation, giving directions, description of picture sequences, topical discourse, and oral task completion based on printed instructions. Three preliminary forms of the test were administered to a group of language…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Interviews, Language Tests, Oral Language
Kenyon, Dorry Mann; Stansfield, Charles W. – 1992
An attempt is made is this paper to examine the validity of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) scale through a comparison of the scaling of speaking tasks and speech performances by the scale and by a Rasch analysis of judgments made by "naive" persons. The results of the multi-faceted Rasch analysis seem…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Language Proficiency
