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  Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior-Distinguished Threshold is available on pre-order at MSI Press webstore . Written by the director of the diagnostic assessment center (retired) at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, one of the most knowledgeable teachers about the finer points of language learner, individually applied. Due to be released in late July. Provides copies of instruments for personalization of instruction, ways to find a learner's zone of proximal developments, explanation of the E&L Cognitive Styles Construct not found elsewhere, delineations of distinctions between ILR 3+ and ILR 4, and sample learning plans for very advanced learners of foreign languages.  For more unique and impressive MSI Press language teaching and language learning books, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out i...

Released today! An in-depth guide for teachers seeking to understand dysfunctional classrooms and create a mathemagenic experience. A unique resource, based on experience with thousands of language learners. Based on Jungian psychology, using MBTI categories (with a passing reference to equivalents in Socionics), this book presents an explanation behind dysfunctional language classrooms (though much could apply to any K-16 classroom) and provides a heuristic for managing the classroom successfully. For each MBTI type, there is a section posing a teacher of that type and a classroom of randomly gathered types (as in real life). A discussion follows as to the source of any dysfunction, the way to accommodate all learners, an exploration of the probable comfort level of that teacher, and a posed question as to what would be the case if the class were the same but the teacher the polar opposite. Meant for application by teachers and for use in faculty development, it is a book that t...