Publications

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Language Teaching and Learning Materials
Working with Spoken Chinese
A series of units developed to teach and learn distinctive conversation features of Mandarin Chinese. Designed for high-intermediate / advanced learners (ACTFL Speaking Proficiency). Can be used as supplemental materials or for self-study.
 Online
Korean Grammar in Discourse and Interaction
Guided activities explaining aspects of Korean grammar from a discourse-pragmatic perspective. Designed for high-intermediate / advanced learners and heritage speakers. Each unit can be used as supplemental materials or for self-study.
 Downloadable
Learning through Listening
Materials designed to help students understand the content, lexical, syntactic and conversation features of natural spoken discourse. Digitized video clips with teaching suggestions and activities. Designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese.
 Online
Narrative and Conceptual Proficiency in Russian
Materials for intermediate to advanced learners of Russian based on an analysis of natural spoken Russian. Teacher handbook outlines five features of Russian important for story-telling and narrating. Workbook offers a variety of activities and tasks that will develop these aspects of learner's proficiency.
 Online
Language Learning Projects
Outlines and descriptions of projects conducted with intermediate to advanced learners of various languages.
 Downloadable
Computer-mediated Activity Library
Resource site with a database of CMC activities, a user's guide to implementing them, a glossary of CMC terminology, case studies, and a bibliography with further resources.
 Online


Teacher Development
Dynamic Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Teacher's Guide
James P. Lantolf & Matthew E. Poehner
Teacher's Guide / 124pp
Appendix with Video Texts and Analyses / 26 pp
+ Video Component which shows detailed interactions between learner and mediator
DVD Price: $15 [+ tax; + S&H]
ISBN-13: 978-0-9793950-0-0
ISBN-10: 0-979-3950-0-3
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Teaching German Modal Particles: A Corpus-based Approach
Nina Vyatkina & Karen E. Johnson
55pp
Price: $10 [+ tax; + S&H]
ISBN-13: 978-0-9793950-3-1
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Corpus Tutorial
The tutorial consists of ten units of self-study devoted to corpus construction, basic corpus-analytical techniques and applications. Designed for language educators.
 Online
Project Work
Resource site describing and exploring principles of conducting project work. Includes case studies, video clips of teacher narratives, downloadable PDFs, and annotated references with links to further resources.
 Online
Advanced Language Proficiency Bibliography
Online searchable database with references to studies, descriptions, essays on advanced language proficiency.
 Online
CALPER Working Paper Series
No. 1. Dynamic Assessment of L2 Development (Matthew E. Poehner & James P. Lantolf) (October 2003) Login to Download

No. 2. Gender and Emotional Investment in Language Learning During Study Abroad (Celeste Kinginger & Kathleen Farrell-Whitworth) (March 2005) Login to Download

No. 3. Concept-based Instruction: Teaching Grammar in an Intermediate-Advanced Spanish L2 Univeristy Classroom (Eduardo Negueruela & James P. Lantolf) (April 2005) Login to Download

No. 4. Computer-mediated Learner Corpus Research and the Data-driven Teaching of L2 Pragmatic Competence: The Case of German Modal Particles (Julie Belz & Nina Vyatkina) (April 2005) Login to Download

No. 5. Internet-mediated Text and Multi-modal Expression in Foreign Language Education (Steven L. Thorne & J. Scott Payne) (June 2005) Login to Download

No. 6. Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education: Approaches, Pedagogy, and Research (Steven L. Thorne) (September 2005) Login to Download

No. 7. New Technologies and Additional Language Learning (Steven L. Thorne) (November 2006) Login to Download

No. 8. New Media Literacies, Online Gaming, and Language Education (Steven L. Thorne & Rebecca W. Black) (September 2007) Login to Download

No. 9. Language Proficiency or Symbolic Capability: A Dialectical Perspective (James P. Lantolf & Matthew E. Poehner) (September 2007) Login to Download
CALPER Professional Development Documents
Using a Corpus in Language Teaching (Michael McCarthy) (October 2004) Login to Download

Dynamic Assessment in the Language Classroom (James P. Lantolf & Matthew E. Poehner)(November 2004) Login to Download

Research on Language Learning in Study Abroad (1998-2005) (Celeste Kinginger) (July 2005) Login to Download

The Language Assessment Process: A "Multiplism" Perspective (Elana Shohamy & Ofra Inbar) (March 2006) Login to Download

Assessment of Advanced Language Proficiency: Why Performance-based Tasks? (Elana Shohany & Ofra Inbar) (May 2006) Login to Download
CALPER Digests
Using Corpora in Language Teaching (Michael McCarthy & Jane Evison) (November 2004) Login to Download







Studies and Reports
Language Learning in Study Abroad: Case Histories of Americans in France
Celeste Kinginger
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Assessment Survey
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