The Story behind the Book: Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of Language Proficiency
This week's story-behind-the-book post provides a look behind the scenes for Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of Language Proficiency . From the publisher - Well, this is a trip down memory lane! This series of books served as the proceedings of the annual conferences of the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers (CDLC). There are four volumes; two more were planned, but the CDLC, the organization providing the book editors and authors, closed it doors before the proceedings from the final two conferences could be processed. CDLC was a unique organization in that it formed as an umbrella organization for support to language centers from a range of institutions, including ivies (e.g. Yale University), state universities (e.g., San Diego State University), and private schools. The reach was international, and member institutions came from the US, Jordan, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. CDLC was also unique in that it focused on the very highest levels...