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CALPER 2012 Summer Workshops

Published on February 16, 2012 By ga

Our summer workshops have been posted and registration is open. During July we will offer the following professional development workshops for language educators: Compiling and Analyzing Your Own Learner Corpus, July 16-18 Language e-Portfolios, July 16-18 The Interface of Language and Culture, July 19-20 Language Socialization in Study Abroad, July 19-20 Discourse Analysis and L2 [...]

ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines Online

Published on February 16, 2012 By ga

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) created a Website for the newly revised ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. They can now be found online at http://actflproficiencyguidelines2012.org/

LARC/CALPER Webinar 3: “Beyond Accountability: Using Formative Assessment to Improve Learning”

Published on September 26, 2011 By ga

When: October 27, 2011 – 3:30 EST – 12:30 Pacific Register: LARC/CALPER Webinars on Assessment Description: In the era of No Child Left Behind, assessment is often associated with standardized testing. While there is an appropriate role for testing, it is important to develop balanced assessment systems that support, rather than just audit, learning (Stiggins, [...]

LARC/CALPER Webinar 2: “Performance Assessment”

Published on April 11, 2011 By ga

When: May 5, 2011 – 3:30 EST Register: LARC/CALPER Webinars on Assessment Description: How many of us have studied a language and then found ourselves unable to perform even the most basic daily tasks in the language? Integrating performance assessment into world language curricula is one way to minimize the likelihood of such an outcome. [...]

CALPER Summer Workshop: Language (e)Portfolios

Published on April 6, 2011 By ga

Language (e)Portfolios June 27 & 28 – 9:30am – 4:30pm at Penn State University Park campus Presenters: Gabi Appel, Penn State and Mary Toulouse, Lafayette College, PA In portfolios learners create a showcase of their language achievements, document their language development and monitor their language learning goals. Web tools make it possible for learner to [...]

Webinars for Language Educator

Published on February 24, 2011 By ga

University Park, PA – February 14, 2011 (ga) LARC/CALPER Webinars for Language Educator: “Coast to Coast and Around the World” More than 150 language educators met in cyberspace for the first in a series of webinars on language assessment last Thursday afternoon Eastern Standard Time. Conducted as a joint project by the Center for Advanced [...]

Byrnes, Maxim, Norris: Advanced Writing

Published on February 24, 2011 By ga

Realizing Advanced Foreign Language Writing Development in Collegiate Education: Curricular design, pedagogy, assessment by Heidi Byrnes, Hiram H. Maxim, and John M. Norris has been published as the 2010 Modern Language Journal monograph. The monograph describes in-depth the decade-long ‘developing Multiple Literacies” initiative of the German Department at Georgetown University. Remember that MLJ monographs are [...]

LARC / CALPER Assessment Webinars to kick off in January 2011

Published on November 9, 2010 By ga

Language acquisition research increasingly points to targeted feedback as a key component for increasing learner proficiency. To receive targeted feedback,however, more refined tools for testing and assessment of learner language are needed. To this end, LARC and CALPER at Penn State (a sister national Language Resource Center) are partnering to offer a series of webinars [...]