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Language Proficiency Benefits Of An Arabic Language Immersion House, John Bailey
Language Proficiency Benefits Of An Arabic Language Immersion House, John Bailey
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This study analyzed the language proficiencies of 25 students using the ACTFL “Can-Do Statements” and Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPI), examined responses of 33 language students throughout the US from a questionnaire to find behaviors they use in their language studies, and also studied results from questionnaires directed to 6 WKU language faculty and a faculty member for Denison University. The goal of this analysis was to find links between those behaviors exhibited by the students and their level of language proficiency to uncover what methods are most conducive to increasing second language (L2) proficiency and to find L2 proficiency benefits …