Student Placement in French: Results and Implications

Abstract

dents begin college. Many of them have studied a foreign language in secondary school and want to continue with it. Obviously, their proficiency differs from one individual to another depending on the quality and amount of instruction they have received, their level of achievement, and the intervening time between the end of high school language study and its resumption in college. Course offerings at most colleges are generally flexible and permit socalled off-semester classes (given sufficient enrollment). Thus, incoming students should be able to take courses which constitute a