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Assessing Second Language Proficiency In An American University, Suwako Watanabe, Patricia Wetzel
Assessing Second Language Proficiency In An American University, Suwako Watanabe, Patricia Wetzel
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There are currently two nation-wide trends that impinge significantly on language teaching and assessment at the university level in the U.S. One is the general wave of education reform, the other is the so-called "proficiency" movement in language teaching. That being said, these two categories are much too broad in their definitions and implications to be of any use in discussing what we wish to address here: actual practice in the second language classroom. We will therefore begin by constraining the relevant characteristics of each of these. We will then proceed to discuss their ongoing implications for what actually happens …