Professional Development
"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"
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Merrill Swain (University of Toronto-OISE)
"Language Development through Languaging"
Jim Lantolf (Penn State)
"The Importance of Concepts for Advanced Proficiency"
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Andrew Cohen (University of Minnesota)
"Pragmatics and Language Proficiency"
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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).

