Listening Comprehension in a Bilingual Community*

Cooper, Robert L.; Fowles, Barbara R.; Givner, Abraham

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.1969.tb07026.x

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“…R. L. Cooper (1969), R. L. Cooper and Greenfield (1969) and R. L. Cooper, Fowles, and Givner (1969) were all concerned with aspects of testing and with exploring the complexity of the notion of bilingualism. They followed the principles sketched earlier in R. L. Cooper (1968), an article that had effectively added the sociolinguistic dimension to the testing field.…”

Section: Aptitude Emerges Again Into the 1960smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…MLJ issues 3 and 4 of Volume 53 contained articles from the seminal Bilingualism in the Barrio study conducted by Fishman and his colleagues (later published as Fishman, Cooper, & Ma, 1971), several of which showed new and sophisticated uses of tests in sociolinguistic studies. R. L. Cooper (1969), R. L. Cooper and Greenfield (1969) and R. L. Cooper, Fowles, and Givner (1969) were all concerned with aspects of testing and with exploring the complexity of the notion of bilingualism. They followed the principles sketched earlier in R. L. Cooper (1968), an article that had effectively added the sociolinguistic dimension to the testing field.…”

Section: Aptitude Emerges Again Into the 1960smentioning

confidence: 99%

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Language Testing in The Modern Language Journal

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2000

The Modern Language Journal

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The Modern Language Journal published on average two articles a year dealing with language tests in its first 80 years. This probably reflects the actual (if not the desirable) level of interest in language testing of the language teaching profession. For the early years, before more specialized journals appeared, it gives an excellent picture of the history of the field in the United States. Later, the coverage became spottier, but there continued to appear a number of important articles especially on topics like prognosis and aptitude tests, the cloze test, oral testing, and the controversy over the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. As a whole, the articles show a valuable concern with the use rather than the form of language tests.

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