Foreign Language Resource Centers

	LANGUAGE	MATERIAL
Hard Copy	Chinese Intermediate Advanced	Pathways V. 09 Eat Shandong From Personal Experience to a Pedagogy of a Second Culture This book examines the "celebratory," ritualistic and pragmatic functions that Shandong yanxi, or banquets, serve in games of gaining social status in the contemporary Shandong social milieu. Yanxi are a highly ritualized form of performance in which .. (more)
Hard Copy	Mende Beginning Intermediate Advanced	Mende Brochure The brochure creates awareness about the language itself, basic information about its speakers and their culture, the advantages of learning it as a foreigner and details about institutions that offer it within the US. Illustrative pictures depicting .. (more)
	Chinese Advanced	Pathways V. 01 Pathways to Advanced Skills Learning the Less Commonly Taught Languages This monograph is volume I of the Pathways to Advanced Skills series, dedicated to teaching and learning less commonly taught languages. The following topics are covered: * Principal Consideration * Conditions for Learning LCTLs * Ada .. (more)
	Afrikaans Beginning Intermediate Advanced	Pathways V. 05 Pedagogy of African Languages CH. 1 African Language Field Development CH. 2 The State of African Language Instruction in the U.S.: An Inventory of Programs, Assets, and Resources CH. 3 Focus on Teaching CH. 4 Focus on the African Language Learner CH. 5 A Goal-Based Approach .. (more)
	Chinese Intermediate Advanced	Pathways V. 08 Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts This bilingual text by Zhou Youguang (in Chinese) with English translation by Zhang Liqing makes it easier for English speakers to gain advanced level skills in East Asian languages. It also exposes learners at or above intermediate skill levels to t .. (more)
Hard Copy	Chinese Beginning Intermediate Advanced	CLASS Professional Standards for K-12 Chinese Language Teachers CLASS Professional Standards is a resource for Chinese teachers, foreign language specialists, school administrators, parents, and policy makers who recognize the importance of Chinese cultures taught by professional teachers of Chinese. The release .. (more)
Downloadable File	-Applicable to any language- Beginning Intermediate Advanced	Dynamic Assessment of L2 Development CALPER Working Paper No. 1 The present paper outlines a theoretical framework for a research program on Dynamic Assessment (henceforth, DA) within in the fields of L2 research, pedagogy and language testing. To achieve this, we will first discu .. (more)
CD-ROM	Russian Intermediate Advanced	Advancing in Russian Through Narration The authors discuss five areas central to the acquisition of narrative and conceptual proficiency and provide evidence from actual narrations to illustrate critical language features. Two of the area are the use of tense and aspect and of verbs of mo .. (more)
Website	-Applicable to any language-	Using Authentic "Real Language" in Teaching and Learning This online tutorial guides you step-by-step through the basics of collecting and analyzing 'real' language. .. (more)
Downloadable File	-Applicable to any language-	Dynamic Assessment and the Problem of Validity in the L2 Classroom CALPER Working Paper No. 10 This paper begins with the premise that classroom-based assessment often carries high stakes for teachers and learners but that the important matter of validating these assessments has not been fully addressed in the .. (more)