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Foreign Language Assessment for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute

An ad hoc committee will evaluate the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency and that the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) could potentially use to ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...
JSTOR Daily

Assessment of Foreign Language Teachers: A Model for Shifting Evaluation Toward Growth and Learning

Although there is no consensus on how to assess teacher quality, scholars do agree that the improvement of teaching is the most important step that we can take toward improving the quality of ...
Asia Society

Assessing the Proficiency of Young Chinese Language Learners

Question: What assessments and rubrics can we use to assess the language proficiency of young learners? Duarte M. Silva, Executive Director of the California World Language Project in Stanford, ...
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U.S. ARMY, EUROPE PERSONNEL TO TAKE FOREIGN LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT AS PART OF DoD INITIATIVE

USAREUR Soldiers are required to take an online survey by January 15 to assess their language capabilities. USAREUR civilian employees are being encouraged to take the survey as well. Defense training ...
VietNamNet

Exam pressure hinders instructional innovation in foreign-language classrooms

Tran Thi Lan Anh, PhD, vice head of the Faculty of English Language and Culture at the University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University Hanoi, said the biggest challenge ...