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Construction, Administration, And Validation Of A Test Of Oral Language Usage, Ronald Harrison
Construction, Administration, And Validation Of A Test Of Oral Language Usage, Ronald Harrison
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
We as teacher of English are faced with the task of preparing students for the world they will meet when they leave the classroom—a world that will judge them in part by their ability to manipulate the language to their advantage. And yet to measure the use of language, we rely almost exclusively on written measurements. It seems likely that students may easily learn to give the teacher the answer he wants on written tests of English usage. Oral tests are commercially available, but many are prohibitively expensive; others require hours of instruction before the teacher can consider himself qualified …