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Unitary-Trait Hypothesis
Unitary-Trait Hypothesis
John Oller
1979
Related to the history of language
testing in 1970s
Language proficiency
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There is a general factor of
language proficiency such that all
the discrete points do not add up to
that whole.
The G-factor the unitary trait,
general language proficiency
Language proficiency = ability to
analyse by synthesizing the language