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| Computer Mediated Activity Library
Website with a database of CMC activities for browsing and searching, a user's guide to implementing the activities, case studies of some activities, and a glossary of CMC terminology and bibliography, including links to external online resources.
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DVD
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| Dynamic Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Teacher's Guide
This guide is designed to familiarize teachers with an innovative pedagogical approach known as "Dynamic Assessment". DA, which brings instruction and assessment together into a seamless and unified process, is based on the premise that a full pictur .. (more) | |
Downloadable File
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Intermediate
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| SCMC, Blogs and Wikis
A concise manual designed for use by teachers at the secondary and post-secondary levels in pre- and in-service professional development workshops and events on the use of Internet communication tools. Includes links to examples (video and audio clip .. (more) | |
Interactive Website
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Advanced
| Advanced Language Proficiency Bibliography
An online annotated select bibliography (database) of research on "advanced language proficiency". .. (more) | |
Downloadable File
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| Dynamic Assessment in the Language Classroom
CALPER Professional Development Document - 8pp.
In very clear language, the authors provide a basic account of Dynamic Assessment (DA) and trace its origins to Vygotsky's theory of development. They explain the concepts of mediation and Zone of P .. (more) | |
Downloadable File
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Advanced
| Investigating Assessment Perceptions and Practices in the Advanced Foreign Language Classroom
Report on the research results of a survey conducted by CALPER iin 2005-06 to examine issues relating to advanced language proficiency (ALP) and its assessment in classroom settings. Specifically, it focuses on the views of language teachers of varie .. (more) | |
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| Research on Language Learning in Study Abroad (1998-2005)
CALPER Professional Development Document.
In this document, the author provides a concise bibliography of current research (1998-2005) on language learning in study abroad, divided into four sections: language development, the qualities of learners .. (more) | |
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| Listening Comprehension in Foreign Language Instruction
This document addresses a range of theoretical and practical issues concerned with the teaching of listening comprehension. It provides an overview of the processes involved in listening comprehension and reviews its most prominent models. In addit .. (more) | |
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| Assessment of Advanced Language Proficiency: Why Performance-based Tasks?
In this document, the authors argue for the use of performance-based tasks in the assessment of advanced language proficiency. In this effort, they start by exploring the 'content/language continuum in language teaching programs' (p. 1) and by discus .. (more) | |
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| The Language Assessment Process: A 'Multiplism' Perspective
The authors describe the 'language assessment process' and emphasize its 'multiple' components and phases and the decisions a teacher has to make at each phase. They then discuss the multiple purposes of assessment, possible language assessment tools .. (more) | |
