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ADVANCE: Making Proficiency Real for Preservice Teachers

Published: Feb 18, 2018 Updated: Oct 5, 2025

Tell me and I forget Teach me and I remember Involve me and I learn                   -Benjamin Franklin The publication of the US…

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Avant ADVANCE: Bringing Language Standards To Life

Published: Nov 13, 2017 Updated: Oct 5, 2025

Art Fry was so frustrated, he almost said a bad word in church. Every time he opened his hymnal, his bookmarks fluttered to the floor. Then he remembered that one…

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Training Raters, Transforming Classrooms

Published: Oct 25, 2017 Updated: Oct 5, 2025

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle Teachers As Raters=Success We gets calls from schools around the country every day….

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Why Language Proficiency Matters

Published: Mar 8, 2017 Updated: Aug 12, 2024

Language Proficiency is the Goal Proficiency is a much-discussed and frequently used word in the language education field. Our company and others deliver “proficiency” assessments. But which proficiency is most important…

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Why Heritage Language Learning Matters

Published: Dec 12, 2016 Updated: Sep 5, 2024

The United States is a country of immigrants, but historically the second generation of these immigrants(heritage language learners) has lost their parents’ language – making our country poorer for it;…

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The Coding is Equivalent to World Language Myth – Should We Look In The Mirror?

Published: Nov 3, 2016 Updated: Oct 5, 2025

Coding ≠ World Language Some state legislatures have proposed that students who learn to code should earn world language credits. Is learning to code equivalent to learning a world language?…

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Coding vs World Languages The Coding is Equivalent to World Language Myth – Should We Look In The Mirror?
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What is Language Proficiency?

Published: Aug 17, 2016 Updated: Sep 24, 2024

What Language Proficiency Isn’t Proficiency is definitely NOT what I learned in my college Japanese courses.  Proficiency is a much-discussed word in the language field. But what proficiency are we…

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