[etni] [FWD: Re: English vs Intelligence?]]]
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Subject: Re: [etni] [FWD: RE: English vs Intelligence?]]
From: "Michael Coghlan" <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, May 20, 2004 9:51 pm
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This is exactly the same problem we have in Australia using the
International Second Language Proficiency Ratings (ISLPR) scale.
<http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/call/content4.html>
It's a scale that ranges from 0 - 5 where 0 = beginner and 5 = native speaker.
It's quite clear to me that level 4 requires a level of abstraction that many
native speakers would grapple with, and if the English language skills of the
average Australian were assessed using the ISLPR very few of them would
come out at level 5 (= native speaker proficiency) !
- Michael Coghlan.
> Andrew wrote:
>"What concerns me more than anything else is the fact that we are
>reaching a stage where the English Bagrut is testing intelligence as
>much as it is testing a student's knowledge of English.
>In my opinion, many students will lose points, not because they
> cannot understand or express themselves in English (and we are talking about
>an exam which tests English), but because they have been unable to
>grasp particular concepts or have misinterpreted them."
Patricia wrote:
> >This is exactly the point I made in my previous email - that many of
> >the questions in the modules have been constructed according to the
> >highest levels of thinking (see Bloom's taxonomy).
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