Teaching and Learning to the Highest Levels of Language Proficiency - Sharings from the Journal of Distinguished Language Proficiency and More (Table of Contents)

   


Just out! Volume 8 of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies. Take a look at the Table of Contents. See something you like? Explore more! The JDLS is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, other online sellers, the MSI Press webstore -- and, in some (we hope, many) cases your local academic library. (If you want it at your local public library -- just ask the librarian to order it, or better, subscribe to it.)

Table of Contents

 EDITORS’ NOTE       1

 FRIEND OF DISTINGUISHED LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY AWARD             3

 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE      7

 How I Attained “Near-Native” Proficiency in Chinese (Cornelius C. Kubler)     9

 FEATURE ARTICLES          21

 Beyond the Language: Debating as High-Intensity Cultural Engagement & Leadership (Emilie Cleret)          23

 Helping Learners Achieve the Distinguished Level of Proficiency (James E. Bernhardt)        37

 Roadmaps to Distinguished Speaking Proficiency (Jack Franke)       53

 On the Cusp: Zone of Proximal Development Tables to Guide Formative Assessment (Betty Lou Leaver)          69

 Protocol-Based Formative Assessment: Evolution and Revolution at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (Andrew R. Corin & Sergey Entis)          95

ABSTRACTS 117

Abstracts in Chinese (Yalun Zhou)          119

Abstracts in English  (authors) 123

Abstracts in French ( Jerome Collin) 127

Abstracts in German (Gerd Brendel)   131

Abstracts in Russian (Irine Krasner) 135

Abstracts in Spanish (Tanya de Hoyos) 139

BOOK REVIEWS  143

Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency: Motivation, Cognition, and Identity by Zoltan Dörnyei and Katarine Mentzelopoulos (reviewed by Natalia Lord) 145

Mastering Italian through Global Debate by Marie Bertola and Sandra Carletti (reviewed by Alessandra Rice and Francesca Gasparella) 147

Mastering Spanish through Global Debate by Nieves Pérez Knapp, Krishuana Hines-Gaither, and Morella Ruscitti-Tovar (reviewed by Joseph Fees) 150

Practices That Work: Bringing Learners to Professional Proficiency in World Languages Editor, edited by Thomas Jesús Garza (reviewed by Michael Wei) 153

Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency by Katarina Mentzelopoulos and Zoltán Dörnyei with Capucine Trotignon (reviewed by Thomas Jesús Garza) 156

 IN MEMORIAM        159

 Professor Zoltán Dörnyei June 10, 2022    161

 Carl D. Leaver 1948-2021    163

 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME   165

 CALL FOR PAPERS     167


The JDLS is published biennially and is accepting proposed articles for the 2023-2024 issue (release: December 31, 2024), as described in the current Call for Papers, the latest version of which is always available on the JDLS webpage at the MSI Press website, along with submission requirements information for both articles and book reviews.

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