THE TENTH YEAR OF ENGLISH: REVIEW OF A PROJECT CONCERNING SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL
作者:
FERENCE MARTON,
期刊:
Higher Education Quarterly
(WILEY Available online 1947)
卷期:
Volume 1,
issue 1
页码: 93-109
ISSN:0951-5224
年代: 1947
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1947.tb02072.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractDuring a three‐year period of co‐operation between the English Department and the Institute of Educational Research at the University of Gothenburg, studies have been made with a view to clarifying a definition of the objectives of English language courses and improving methods of teaching and testing English language proficiency at university level. Considerable success was achieved in the construction of a test battery by means of which a reliable and comprehensive measure could be arrived at of students' written and oral proficiency. By the aid of these tests one could also define with a reasonable degree of accuracy the requirements for a normal course of study.Since the level of proficiency at entrance emerges as the principal determinant of the level exhibited a year later, the author argues that the specification of objectives (for language proficiency) should take account not only of the terminal level but also of the initial le
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