Language Proficiency

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Louis A. Arena

      Pages 1-3

3. Applied Linguistics and Language Proficiency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Applied Linguistics: Realities and Projections Re the Teaching Profession

      • Paul J. Angelis

      Pages 7-18

   3. Knowing vs Behaving vs Feeling: Studies on Japanese Bilinguals

      • Kensaku Yoshida

      Pages 19-40

   4. Understanding Interactive Competence in L1/L2 Contrastive Context: A Case of Back-Channel Behavior in Japanese and English

      • Senko K. Maynard

      Pages 41-52

   5. Using Cognitive Grammar, Natural Phonology, and Item Response Theory to Explain ESL Subjects’ Control of the [D] and [Z] Morphemes

      • Kyle Perkins, Sheila R. Brutten

      Pages 53-64

   6. The Affective Filter and Pronunciation Proficiency — Attitudes and Variables in Second Language Acquisition

      • Robert M. Hammond

      Pages 65-71

   7. Proficiency Without Support: “My Parents Never Spoke It to Me”

      • Marion Lois Huffines

      Pages 73-77

   8. Proficiency in Technical English: Lessons from the Bridge

      • Lilith M. Haynes

      Pages 79-82

4. Language Proficiency in Reading and Writing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Training Formal Schemata — Replication Results

      • Patricia L. Carrell

      Pages 85-92

   3. Issues in Defining and Assessing Reading Proficiency: The ACTFL Guidelines

      • James F. Lee

      Pages 93-98

   4. What Composition Theory Offers the Writing Teacher

      • Patricia M. Dyer

      Pages 99-106

   5. Syntax and the Evaluation of College Writing: A Blind Alley

      • Carl Mills

      Pages 107-119

   6. Discourse Analysis and Embedding Depth of Utterances: Clause Analysis Technique as a Measure of Complexity

      • Ghaida Salah

      Pages 121-128

   7. The Role of Literature in Teaching ESL: Still Viable in the 21st Century

      • James R. DeJong

      Pages 129-141

5. Testing for Language Proficiency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Communicative and Cognitive Language Proficiency: Implications for Testing in the L2 Classroom

      • Marguerite G. MacDonald

      Pages 145-152

   3. The Pragmatic Demands of Placement Testing

      • Francis J. Sullivan Jr.

      Pages 153-162

Louis A. Arena University of Delaware Newark, DE This monograph contains select, revised, and invited papers which deal with the topic, Language Proficiency: Defining, Teaching, and Testing. This topic was the theme of the eighth annual symposium held at the University of Delaware. The papers contained in this volume are invited papers or were originally scheduled for presentation and/or presented at the eighth annual Delaware Symposium on Language Studies. The papers combine research con­ ducted in the areas of teaching, testing, and defining second language pro­ ficiency within the profession of applied linguistics. They are divided into three principal sections: "Applied Linguistics and Language Pro­ ficiency", "Language Proficiency in Reading and Writing", and "Testing for Language Proficiency". In Part I, Paul Angelis' "Applied Linguistics: Realities and Projections re the Teaching Profession'; sketches a historical portrait of Applied Linguistics, its definition, presence, and role in the profession that teaches second language proficiency. Angelis concludes that Applied Linguistics is still a young discipline in terms of substance, organization, and strategy, and that these three components will determine the prospects for the future of applied linguistics re the teaching profession. The next six papers address the issue of second language proficiency from various points of view. Kensaku Yoshida's essay "Knowing vs Believing vs Feeling: Studies on Japanese Bilinguals" concludes that some Japanese bilinguals are actually not necessarily bilingual because they very often face problems requiring other kinds of proficiency, i. e.

• Syntax
• grammar
• language
• language acquisition
• linguistics
• literary diction

• University of Delaware, Newark, USA

  Louis A. Arena

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