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  This week's book back story features Individualized Study Plans for Very Advanced Students of Foreign Language s by Betty Lou Leaver,  from the author -- Ironically, given the popularity of this book, it was the fastest and easiest I have ever written. Based on years of experience working with highly proficient language students, in 2003 I put together a conference presentation to share "what works" with other teachers. Many of those in attendance wanted a copy of the power point slides, but my slides are nearly always just prompts for more in-depth information. I decided to write up the information behind the slides instead of just sending the slides. It took the better part of a week, but when I was done, I discovered I actually had a book! Purchase the paperback at 25% discount with coupon code FF25  at the  MSI Press webstore . For more posts about Betty Lou Leaver and her books, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter , 

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  excerpt from Individualized Study Plans for Very Advanced Students of Foreign Languages by Betty Lou Leaver Preface Individualized Study Plans (ISPs) have been used in a number of venues for at least two decades, if not more, particularly in US government foreign-language training institutions. Sometimes these instruments have been called ISPs; other times they have been called learning plans. Whatever they have been called, the purpose has generally been the same: to assist students in organizing their short-term and long-term learning goals and activities. (In this volume, examples of ISPs and the concepts associated with them refer, for the most part, to the planning of long-term, even lifelong, foreign-language learning activities). The Foreign Service Institute has long used ISPs for its diplomats and attaches in foreign-language training during the training period itself, which could be considered an intermediate-term type of plan since the amount of time spent in languag