Keeping the Optic Constant: A Framework of Principles for Writing and Specifying the AEI Definitions of Language Abilities  

Oleh:

Lowe, Pardee

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 31 no. 3 (1998), page 358-380.
Fulltext: 31_03_Lowe.pdf (1.55MB)

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This article examines the need to keep constant the optic, the framework within which the AEI definitions, both the ILR Language Skill Level Descriptions and the ACTFL Guidelines, are revised and more fully specified. Although the delinitions have been used for a variety ofpurposes, such as curriculum development, the discussion below focuses on their use in describing and assessing foreign language user abilities. The author raises issues concerning the delimiting of the AEI ranges, parsimony, and more fully specifying the criterion-referenced nature of the definitions as well as those concerning their use for assessing the abilities of target language natives and of heritage speakers. In the following, seventeen principles are presented and their utility examined for keeping the optic constant

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