ADVANCE: Making Proficiency Real for Preservice Teachers
Tell me and I forget Teach me and I remember Involve me and I learn -Benjamin Franklin The publication of the US…
Tell me and I forget Teach me and I remember Involve me and I learn -Benjamin Franklin The publication of the US…
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…
“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….
Training Raters, Transforming Classrooms
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…
Why Language Proficiency Matters
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;…
Why Heritage Language Learning Matters
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?…
The Coding is Equivalent to World Language Myth – Should We Look In The Mirror?
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…
What is Language Proficiency?