Assessing students' oral proficiency in an outcome-based curriculum: Student performance and teacher intuitions

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-18

  Glisan, Eileen W ^a   Foltz, David A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001827910     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1998.tb02587.x     Document Type: Article

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