The Story behind the Book: Achieving Nativelike Second Language Proficiency
From the author: The content of this book was the outcome of work and research conducted under the auspices of the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers, the US Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, the Defense Language Institute, and the National Foreign Language. Some of the results of that research was included in the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies and in Developing Professional Foreign Language Prodiciency (Leaver & Shekhtman, Cambridge University Press). The decision to write this book, in particular, came about as the result of a grant by the CCC of the National Association of Teachers of English to the author and colleagues at the University of Jordan and the New York Institute of Technology's campus in Amman to determine the variables that led to the acquisition of near-native skills in writing . The results of that particular research was shared in a series of talks across the USA and Jordan and in the Journal for Distinguished Lan...