CONTENTS

Au Revoir,
Richard Brod

PROFICIENCY AND THE PROFESSION

Preface: The Proficiency Movement and the Foreign Language Department
Bette G. Hirsch

Trends in the 1980s

Proficiency Assessment and the Humanities
Theodore V. Higgs

Proficiency: Concepts and Developments
Heidi Byrnes

Teaching for Proficiency: Are We Ready?
Jeannette D. Bragger

Language Proficiency Assessment: Implications and Applications
Harry L. Rosser

Theoretical Concerns

Proficiency Testing: A Matter of False Hopes?
Gilbert A. Jarvis

Proficiency versus Achievement: Reflections on the Proficiency Movement
Claire J. Kramsch

Proficient Texts or Proficient Readers?
Elizabeth B. Bernhardt

Applications and Perspectives

Toward the Integration of Foreign Language and Literature Teaching at AllLevels of the College Curriculum
Ernst Fedor Hoffmann and Dorothy James

Warming Up to Proficiency: A Project in Process
Jeanette Clausen

Proficiency-Based Curricula: The View from the Hill
Peter N. Richardson

Evolving Strategies toward Heightened Proficiency in Adult-Acquired Spanish: AnIntrospective Analysis and a Guide for Advanced Learners
Richard V. Teschner

The German Business Diploma: A Model for Testing and Evaluation
Barbara Elling

Selected Bibliography on Proficiency

Back Matter September 1986