ARCHIVED – An Examination of the Canadian Language Benchmark Data from the Citizenship Language Survey
Tracey M. Derwing, University of Alberta
Murray J. Munro, Simon Fraser University
Marlene Mulder & Marilyn Abbott, University of Alberta
In the summer of 2006, Citizenship and Immigration Canada requested a comprehensive analysis of an existing data set. Data for the pilot test were collected in six cities from immigrants who were waiting to take their citizenship test. Assessors administered the combined listening and speaking component of the Canadian Language Benchmark Assessment tool (CLBA). In addition, the participants provided demographic information on a wide array of variables. The chief purpose of this research was to examine the relationships between these variables and the language proficiency of the immigrants, as determined by the CLBA scores.
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An Examination of the Canadian Language Benchmark Data from the Citizenship Language Survey
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- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Canadian Language Benchmark analyses
- Additional correlational and regression analyses
- Problems with the data set
- Summary statement and recommendations
- References
- Appendix A: Number of cases by country
- Appendix B: Coding of countries in which English is an official language
- Appendix C: Coding of countries by geographic region
- Appendix D: Coding of languages as originally reported
- Appendix E: Classification of occupations into three levels of job skills
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