I am a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. I received both my BA in Linguistics and MS in Linguistics (concentrating in Sociolinguistics) from ...
Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) are widely used to measure speaking ability in a second or foreign language. The Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) Speaking Test is an OPI used ...
When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...