Most Arabic language studying at Salaf Islamic Boarding Schools leads to maharah al-qira'ah wa al-istima'. One of the salaf boarding schools, namely Raudlatul Ulum Guyangan Pati, Central Java, Indonesia, began formulation curriculum transformation by achieving goals speaking skills (maharah al-kalam). This study aimed analyze implementation al-kalam material ACTFL Perspective School. The method...

Kurikulum adalah bagian penting dalam proses pembelajaran bahasa. Dalam kurikulum bahasa Arab yang berdasarkan KMA 183 tahun 2019 perlu kiranya untuk dikaji standar kompetensinya bahan ajar sehingga nantinya capaian hasil tidak hanya memenuhi kebutuhan secara nasional melainkan juga bisa internasional. Di dunia Internasional sudah banyak berkembang standart-standart bahkan di setiap benuanya me...

Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...

Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...

ACTFL generic proficiency guidelines describe what learners are able to perform at various proficiency levels. These guidelines, in particular the oral proficiency guidelines (OPG), have been widely used to assess learners’ proficiency across institutions – via the oral proficiency interview (OPI) technique – irrespective of curriculum, teaching methods, and materials. Many institutions and org...

This longitudinal study explores how the language proficiency of eight (N = 8) US-affiliated university students developed relative to their smartphone usage during abroad (SA) in Paris. Phone was tracked daily with Space, weekly using NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do statements, and use monthly via a Language Engagement Questionnaire. Adopting Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) framework following micro...

Abstract This report examines the potential impacts of task and proficiency on listener judgments intelligibility, comprehensibility, accentedness in L2 Spanish. study extends Huensch Nagle [ Language Learning, 71, 626–668, (2021)], who explored partial independence among global speech dimensions for samples taken from a picture narrative task. Given that type speaking used to elicit has been s...