["Recent years", Spolsky writes, "have marked the triumph of functional, communicative tests...but there remain basic problems." This article focuses on one of these problems: the 'submersion of individual identities' in overall rating scales and goals for foreign language instruction.]
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Bernard Spolsky (1986) studied this question.
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