Overview
- Is the first full length volume on higher-education foreign language proficiency
- Synthesizes national and international needs for language proficiency gains
- Provides and overview of the unique assessment plans for monitoring and promoting proficiency
Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 37)
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About this book
This volume comprises of chapters that deal with language proficiency relating to a wide range of language program issues including curriculum, assessment, learners and instructors, and skill development. The chapters cover various aspects of a broad-based proficiency initiative, focusing on numerous aspects of foreign language learning, including how skills develop, how assessments can inform curriculum, how learners and instructors view proficiency and proficiency assessment, and how individual use of technology furthers language learning. The concluding chapter points the way forward for issues and questions that need to be addressed.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Preliminaries
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Curriculum
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Assessments and Learning Outcomes
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Instructors and Learners
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Foreign Language Proficiency in Higher Education
Editors: Paula Winke, Susan M. Gass
Series Title: Educational Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01006-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01005-8Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01006-5Published: 18 December 2018
Series ISSN: 1572-0292
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 318
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Higher Education