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CALPER maintains a large area of resources for language educators. The above resource is one example, taken from the Technology section.
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The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at the Pennsylvania State University is one of fifteen Title VI Language Resource Centers (LRCs) in the United States which are funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Congruent with the charge of the LRCs, CALPER conducts research to inform foreign language pedagogy, it develops language teaching and learning materials and assessment procedures and it provides an array of educational opportunities for language professionals. CALPER's particular focus is to improve the environment of advanced-level foreign language teaching and learning, and assessment.


What's New?
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Working with Spoken Chinese by Hongyin Tao, UCLA
One new student workbook each for the unit "Driving Cautiously" and the unit "Travel Adventures" has been uploaded to the site. Go to the front page of the project.
Korean Culture and Media Series. Exploring culture through inquiry, observation, analysis. Guided activities. Units for intermediate and advanced learners of Korean.
by Susan Strauss. Downloadable PDFs from our publications page.
Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners. An instructional resource for LCTL teacher preparation
by Karen E. Johnson and Joan Kelly Hall is now available on CD. Find out more about the publication .
Grant for Computerized Dynamic Assessment Project. Penn State's Center for Language Acquisition has received a $321,000 grant from the International Research and Studies Program, U.S. Department of Education, to produce Computerized Dynamic Assessment Language Proficiency Exams in French, Chinese, and Russian. James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner are the principal investigators of this three-year (2008-2011) project. Details are available on the Center for Language Acquisition's Projects page.

07.15.08

Advanced Language Proficiency (ALP)Bibliography. We began to develop and compile a searchable bibliographic database that contains references on a wide variety of aspects and features addressing the development of advanced language proficiency. It is our hope that language professionals find the database a valuable tool when trying to locate research and non-commercial materials on ALP. If you have comments or would like to suggest a reference for potential inclusion in the database, please contact Gabriela Appel

Go to CALPER's ALP Searchable Bibliography

10.29.07

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