Student learning outcomes assessment in college foreign language ...

NFLRC's NEWEST : Changes in accreditation policies and institutional practices leads to the emergence of student learning outcomes assessment as an important

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Developing, using, and analyzing rubrics in language assessment ...

Rubrics are essential tools for all language teachers in this age of communicative and task-based teaching and assessment—tools that allow us to efficiently...

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NFLRC Resources on ScholarSpace

NFLRC maintains a large searchable archive of free language research and teaching materials on ScholarSpace...

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Foreign Language Outcomes Assessment and Program Evaluation

Foreign language (FL) educators are asked to engage in evaluation of many kinds and for many reasons, such as traditional program reviews...

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Foreign Language Program Evaluation

College and university foreign language (FL) programs are asked to engage in evaluation of many kinds and for many reasons, such as trad...

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Computer-based Tests for Less Commonly Taught Languages

James Dean Brown ThomHudson The goal of this project is to develop computer-based tests (CBTs) for less commonly taught languages, with ...

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Practical assessment tools for college Japanese

Each module presents a practical assessment idea that can be adopted or adapted for the reader’s own formative or summative assessment of their Japanese...

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Guidelines for submissions to the NFLRC Monographs & ...

We invite submissions of materials for publication as NFLRC Monographs. Monographs discuss ongoing curriculum projects, report on the results of research...

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Performance and portfolio assessment (1985–1995): An extended annotated ...

This bibliography offers a collection of extended article summaries drawn from the performance and portfolio assessment literature of the...

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Motivation, reported strategy use, and preferences for activities ...

NFLRC carried out a series of large scale data collection at undergraduate level foreign language classrooms in the university. The main focus of this doc...

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Japanese placement tests at the University of Hawai‘i: ...

First-rate placement procedures are important for effective teaching and learning in any language program because they help create classe...

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Issues in placement survey [website]

The overall goal of the project is to develop a manual of best practices in placement testing that would be of use to those people involved in the placement...

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Issues in placement survey

The overall goal of the project is to develop a manual of best practices in placement testing that would be of use to those people involved in the placement...

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2005 NFLRC workshop: Designing Effective Foreign Language Placement ...

Final report on the 2005 NFLRC workshop, Designing Effective Foreign Language Placement Tests. During this two-week workshop participant...

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Usability test report for the National Foreign Language ...

Usability test report for the NFLRC website update completed in December 2005. Includes description of the methodology plus results obtained.

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Using surveys for understanding and improving foreign language ...

The goal of this guide is to help language educators develop surveys that produce useful information for evaluation in language programs....

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Korean proficiency guidelines

Booklet plus two video tapes contain Korean oral proficiency guidelines for speaking listening, reading, and writing, as well as supporting materials...

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Pilot instruments for assessing cross-cultural pragmatics in nonnative ...

The instruments in this report are pilot versions of instruments that have been developed in order to provide means for researchers to ex...

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Developing Korean language performance assessments

This Research Note reports on a task-based performance assessment development project for Korean as a foreign language through the Nation...

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Manual for the Vietnamese elicited imitation test (manual ...

Elicited imitation can be a reliable and valid measure of general competence, while also possibly serving as an instrument for linguistically-oriented second...

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James Dean Brown

NFLRC Advisory Board Member

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Associate Editor, Reading in a Foreign Language Journal

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Celebrating 25 years in 2015, we dedicate ourselves to improving the learning and teaching of all languages...

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A framework for testing cross-cultural pragmatics

This volume presents a framework for developing methods which assess cross-cultural pragmatic ability. Although the framework has been de...

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Developing prototypic measures of cross-cultural pragmatics

Although the study of cross-cultural pragmatics has gained importance in applied linguistics, there are no standard forms of assessment t...

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Second language development in writing: Measures of fluency, ...

In this book, the authors analyze and compare the ways that fluency, accuracy, grammatical complexity, and lexical complexity have been m...

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Designing second language performance assessments

ℴAVAILABLE USED: click here.This technical report focuses on the decision-making potential provided by second language performanc...

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A focus on language test development: Expanding the ...

This volume presents eight research studies which introduce a variety of novel, non-traditional forms of second and foreign language assessment. To the extent..

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An investigation of second language task-based performance assessments

volume describes the creation of actual performance assessment instruments and their validation. After briefly reviewing the background to the project...

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LSEV: Learner self-evaluated videos

Regularly videotaping students’ conversations for them to analyze gives holistic data from which the students can learn and improve. LSE...

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Yao Zhang Hill

Assessment Expert

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Identifying and responding to evaluation needs in college ...

Our goal is to build the capacity of college foreign language educators to engage with a variety of evaluation, assessment, and accreditation demands ...

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Issues in Placement

This testing project involves the development of a manual of best practices in placement in modern language programs. The focus is placed...

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Performance and Portfolio Assessment

The purpose of this project is to develop alternative methods of language testing that will be appropriate for assessing communicative an...

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Computerized Testing Protocol for Mandarin Chinese

Professor Tao-Chung (Ted) Yao was hired at the University of Hawai‘i in 1995 to serve as the overall language program coordinator for the...

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Assessment of Cross-cultural Pragmatics

There are numerous existing methods for measuring grammatical and textual competence (syntax, vocabulary, cohesion, etc.), but no general...

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Elicited Imitation as an Oral Proficiency Measure

This project will develop elicited imitation, sometimes referred to as "sentence repetition," as a standardized measurement instrument of...

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Case studies in foreign language placement: Practices and ...

Although most language programs make placement decisions on the basis of placement tests, there is surprisingly little published about di...

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