A study of the TAGS, an enduring teaching tool: teachersâ•Ž perspectives on the Teacher Assessment of Grammatical Structures teaching practices and application
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This paper is a studied look at the TAGS, TASL, and CASLLS criterion-referenced language assessments as well as an inquiry into how teachers of the deaf use the TAGS currently as a teaching tool.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016