Developing professional-level language proficiency /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiv, 308 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-295) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Principles and practices in teaching Superior-level language skills : not just more of the same / Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman -- Toward academic-level foreign language abilities : reconsidering foundational assumptions, expanding pedagogical options / Heidi Byrnes -- Contexts for advanced foreign language learning : a report on an immersion institute / Heidi Byrnes -- Bridging the gap between language for general purposes and language for work : an intensive Superior-level language/skill course for teachers, translators, and interpreters / Claudia Angelelli and Christian Degueldre --Learning Chinese in China : programs for developing Superior- to Distinguished-level Chinese language proficiency in China and Taiwan / Cornelius C. Kubler -- Developing professional-level oral proficiency : the Shekhtman method of communicative teaching / Boris Shekhtman [and others] -- The LangNet "Reading to the four" project : applied technology at higher levels of language learning / Catherine W. Ingold -- In the quest for the Level 4+ in Arabic : training level 2-3 learners in independent reading / Elsaid Badawi -- Teaching high-level writing skills in English at a Danish university / Tim Caudery -- Heritage speakers as learners at the Superior level : differences and similarities between Spanish and Russian student populations / Claudia Angelelli and Olga Kagan -- Teaching Russian language teachers in eight summer institutes in Russian language and culture / Zita Dabars and Olga Kagan -- Understanding the learner at the Superior-Distinguished threshold / Madeline E. Ehrman -- Preliminary qualitative findings from a study of the processes leading to the Advanced Professioanl Proficiency Level (ILR 4) / Betty Lou Leaver with Sabine Atwell.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book examines approaches to teaching students making the transition from 'advanced' or 'superior' proficiency in a foreign language to 'near-native' ability, a level which has been much neglected in the professional literature. This book aims to assist those developing language programmes at this level by filling this serious gap.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Developing professional-level language proficiency.
International Standard Book Number
0521016851
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Language and languages-- Study and teaching.
Langue seconde-- Acquisition.
Langues vivantes-- Étude et enseignement (Supérieur)