Assess foreign language proficiency can be challenging. This SlideShare presentation will give you some concrete ways of grading communicative language.
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When assessing proficiency (what they can do with the language), how do you be sure that their grammar moves along too?
Proficiency is about being understood. A lack of structural control will impede this.