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The Story behind the Book: The Invisible Foreign Language Classroom

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  This week's story-behind-the-book post provides a look behind the scenes for The Invisible Foreign Language Classroom by Laura Dabbs and Betty Lou Leaver. From one of the co-authors (Leaver) -  For a conference presentation, I could not find any good references that compiled all the known information about how personality differences play out in classrooms. Although my frequent co-authors. Dr. Madeline Ehrman and Dr. Rebecca Oxford, and I had written various treatises on the topic and lectured on it quite frequently, we could not find any sources beyond our own handouts that went into the level of detail needed for this conference. Further, I felt a need for a book that contained all that information in one place instead of in a dozen or more handouts. Since Rebecca was currently teaching graduate courses in learner-centered instruction, I asked if she had a capable graduate student with a strong background in interpersonal differences who could help collate all the information