As reformas educacionais que vêm sendo implantadas no Estado da Geórgia, nos Estados Unidos, incluem a educação bilíngue como um direito de todas as pessoas. O ensino em duas línguas, também conhecido ou multilíngue (GARCIA 2019), tem objetivo aumentar competência linguística e cultural dos alunos para esses participem comunidades multilíngues seus países mundo (ACTFL, 2019). Tendo referencial ...

Abstract Second language (L2) teachers may shy away from self-assessments because of warnings that students are not accurate self-assessors. This information stems meta-analyses in which self-assessment scores on average did correlate highly with proficiency test results. However, researchers mostly used Pearson correlations, when polyserial could be used. Furthermore, today can computer adapti...

St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, a seminary located in southern Indiana, was founded 1857 by monks the Benedictine order Einsiedeln Switzerland. The has since been devoted to education faith leaders—priests, deacons, graduate lay students. Due growth underserved Latino populations Midwest region United States, there is need prepare future leaders serve congregations. This work provi...

We outline challenges for modeling human language assessment in automatic systems, both in terms of the process and the reliability of the result. We propose an architecture for a system to evaluate learners of Spanish via the Computerized Oral Proficiency Instrument, to determine whether they have 'reached' or 'not reached' the Intermediate Low level of proficiency, according to the American C...

Placement tests are usually designed to assess relative language ability within the range of a particular program. Test scores are generally interpreted as measures of language ability, and students are compared and placed in accordance to them. This paper argues that an application of the Rasch model to placement situations is not only warranted by the assumptions of the placement process, but...