Foreign Language Resource Centers

	LANGUAGE	MATERIAL
Downloadable File	Spanish Intermediate Advanced	Evocando y Paso Avanzando: A Creative Writing Project to Advance Spanish Proficiency Outline of a writing project for advanced learners of Spanish, but can be adapted for K 7-12. .. (more)
Downloadable File Website	Chinese Intermediate Advanced	Working with Spoken Chinese A series of independent units developed to teach and learn distinctive conversation features of Mandarin Chinese. Each unit presents particular conversation features and speech events, grammatical features and other important aspects of natural conve .. (more)
Hard Copy	German Intermediate Advanced	Teaching German Modal Particles: A Corpus-based Approach This text offers an approach to the challenges of teaching the usage of modal particles to learners of German that emphasizes awareness raising activities. The worksheets and handouts are sequenced to move learners through a gradual process of induct .. (more)
DVD	-Applicable to any language- Beginning Intermediate Advanced	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	-Applicable to any language- Intermediate Advanced	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)
Downloadable File	-Applicable to any language- Beginning Intermediate Advanced	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	-Applicable to any language- Beginning Intermediate Advanced	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)
Downloadable File	-Applicable to any language- Beginning Intermediate Advanced	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)
Downloadable File	-Applicable to any language-	Gender and Emotional Investment in Language Learning during Study Abroad CALPER Working Paper No. 2 This paper proposes a relatively nuanced account of the role of gendered activity as it shapes emotional investment in language learning during study abroad. .. (more)
Downloadable File	-Applicable to any language- Intermediate Advanced	Concept-based Instruction: Teaching Grammar in an Intermediate-Advanaced Spanish L2 University Classroom CALPER Working Paper No. 3 This paper focuses on the quality of the grammatical knowledge that is presented to learners in the classroom setting and how teachers can promote the appropriation of such knowledge by students. The approach proposed .. (more)