The Graduate School Foreign Language Requirement

A questionnaire on doctoral level language requirements and testing practices was sent to 2,691 U.S. graduate school department chairmen in the spring of 1967. The following topics are presented from 1,604 return results: languages required or accepted for the doctoral degree; ways to meet the language requirement other than taking specific tests; the extent to which local examinations and Graduate School Foreign Language Tests (GSFLT) are used; test construction and score evaluation responsibilt ities within the institution; reactions by departmen‐chairmen to a proposal for new forms of the GSFLT; opinions of department chairmen on the relative usefulness of various language learning goals for doctoral students. Results are shown for the entire group of questionnaire respondents and for respondents categorized into Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities areas. (Eight tables are included.)

Foreign language · Graduate students · Institution · Language assessment · Language proficiency · Mathematics education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Post graduate · Social science · Sociology · Test (biology · Medicine · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

• Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology

  Roger Cole, Roger W Cole et al.•Language•1990

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