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  2. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

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    The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines provide a means of assessing the proficiency of a foreign language speaker. It is widely used in schools and universities in the United States [3] and the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview is the most widely used oral proficiency test in North America.

  3. Foreign language - Wikipedia

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    A foreign language is a language that is not an official language of, nor typically spoken in, a specific country. Native speakers from that country usually need to acquire it through conscious learning, such as through language lessons at school, self-teaching, or attending language courses.

  4. List of multilingual presidents of the United States - Wikipedia

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    John Adams, the second president of the United States, learned to read Latin at a young age. [1] In preparation for attending Harvard University, Adams attended a school for improving his Latin skills. [2]

  5. Teaching English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    Teaching English as a second language (TESL) refers to teaching English to students whose first language is not English. The teaching profession has used different names for TEFL and TESL; the generic "teaching English to speakers of other languages" (TESOL) is increasingly used, which covers TESL and TEFL as an umbrella term.

  6. Indonesian language - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia is sometimes improperly reduced to Bahasa, which refers to the Indonesian subject (Bahasa Indonesia) taught in schools, on the assumption that this is the name of the language. But the word bahasa (a loanword from Sanskrit Bhāṣā ) only means "language."

  7. English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    English classes in Moscow in 1964. English as a second or foreign language refers to the use of English by individuals whose native language is different, commonly among students learning to speak and write English.

  8. Bhāṣā - Wikipedia

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    The word Bahasa in English is sometimes used to refer specifically to the Indonesian and Malay, this standalone usage however is considered incorrect within the language: [1] when referring to other languages, a non-capitalized bahasa ("language") is used preceding a toponym or ethnonym (e.g. bahasa Ingg[e]ris "English", bahasa Italia "Italian ...

  9. Test of English as a Foreign Language - Wikipedia

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    Score range: iBT: 0 to 30 (in 1-point increments) on each of the 4 sections. So a total of 0 to 120. PBT: Reading: 0 to 30, listening: 0 to 30, Writing: 0 to 30.