Professional Development

Follow-up Information on the CALPER Symposium on

"Perspectives on Advanced Language Proficiency"

which was held at the Pennsylvania State University
on Wednesday, July 13, 2005


Rod Ellis (University of Auckland)
"Implicit and Explicit Grammatical Knowledge and Language Proficiency" [View Powerpoint]

Merrill Swain (University of Toronto-OISE)
"Language Development through Languaging"

Jim Lantolf (Penn State)
"The Importance of Concepts for Advanced Proficiency" [ View Powerpoint]

Andrew Cohen (University of Minnesota)
"Pragmatics and Language Proficiency" [View Powerpoint]

Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University)
"What Is Different in Assessing Advanced Language Proficiency?"



The symposium was sponsored by CALPER with funds from the U.S. Department of Education (CFDA 84.229, P229A020010).

  

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