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Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of  Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold , the second edition of a unique book by Bella Cohen, with an introduction by Steve Koppany Description: Diagnostic Assessment provides teachers of foreign-language students working at high levels of language proficiency with tools and techniques for determining gaps in students' knowledge and skills and with suggestions for tasks that can help students. The book is written by an experienced teacher, diagnostic assessor, proficiency tester, and tester trainer. The suggestions are based on work with literally hundreds of students in government language programs. Check out excerpts from the current edition. For more posts about Bella and her book, click  HERE . Book is available at discount from the  MSI Press webstore . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interes

  Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of  Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold , the second edition of a unique book by Bella Cohen, with an introduction by Steve Koppany Description: Diagnostic Assessment provides teachers of foreign-language students working at high levels of language proficiency with tools and techniques for determining gaps in students' knowledge and skills and with suggestions for tasks that can help students. The book is written by an experienced teacher, diagnostic assessor, proficiency tester, and tester trainer. The suggestions are based on work with literally hundreds of students in government language programs. Check out excerpts from the current edition. For more posts about Bella and her book, click  HERE . Book is available at discount from the  MSI Press webstore . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Inter

  Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold , the second edition of a unique book by Bella Cohen, with an introduction by Steve Koppany Description: Diagnostic Assessment provides teachers of foreign-language students working at high levels of language proficiency with tools and techniques for determining gaps in students' knowledge and skills and with suggestions for tasks that can help students. The book is written by an experienced teacher, diagnostic assessor, proficiency tester, and tester trainer. The suggestions are based on work with literally hundreds of students in government language programs. Check out excerpts from the current edition. For more posts about Bella and her book, click HERE . Book is available at discount from the MSI Press webstore . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interest

  Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of  Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold , the second edition of a unique book by Bella Cohen, with an introduction by Steve Koppany Description: Diagnostic Assessment provides teachers of foreign-language students working at high levels of language proficiency with tools and techniques for determining gaps in students' knowledge and skills and with suggestions for tasks that can help students. The book is written by an experienced teacher, diagnostic assessor, proficiency tester, and tester trainer. The suggestions are based on work with literally hundreds of students in government language programs. Check out excerpts from the current edition. For more posts about Bella and her book, click  HERE . Book is available at discount from the  MSI Press webstore . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Inter

  excerpt from  Diary of an RVer during Quarantine  (MacDonald) -  Day 1 (Tuesday) From a carefree life of joyful activities, we suddenly feel like captives within our 38-ft. 5 th wheel.  In our RV Park in Victoria, British Columbia, people are keeping their distance from others by walking almost sideways as they pass.  Friends are greeting each other not with a handshake but with a wave, and chatting from chairs strategically placed 2 metres (6 feet) apart.  Physical distancing and hand washing are the orders-of-the-day to mitigate the spread of the highly contagious and deadly virus.  Our poodle Bella can’t figure out why we aren’t leaving the site to play fetch with her ball.  Playing with stuffed toys inside the RV is not quite the same, but she is making the best of it.  My wife Sandy and I decided we would also make the best of it … but how?   As a knitter, meditator, painter, and ukulele player, Sandy is well on her way to making constructive use of her time.  As for myself, I

  Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of  Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold , the second edition of a unique book by Bella Cohen, with an introduction by Steve Koppany Description: Diagnostic Assessment provides teachers of foreign-language students working at high levels of language proficiency with tools and techniques for determining gaps in students' knowledge and skills and with suggestions for tasks that can help students. The book is written by an experienced teacher, diagnostic assessor, proficiency tester, and tester trainer. The suggestions are based on work with literally hundreds of students in government language programs. Check out excerpts from the current edition. For more posts about Bella and her book, click  HERE . Book is available at discount from the  MSI Press webstore . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Inter

  Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of  Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold , the second edition of a unique book by Bella Cohen, with an introduction by Steve Koppany Description: Diagnostic Assessment provides teachers of foreign-language students working at high levels of language proficiency with tools and techniques for determining gaps in students' knowledge and skills and with suggestions for tasks that can help students. The book is written by an experienced teacher, diagnostic assessor, proficiency tester, and tester trainer. The suggestions are based on work with literally hundreds of students in government language programs. Check out excerpts from the current edition. For more posts about Bella and her book, click  HERE . Book is available at discount from the  MSI Press webstore . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Inter

  Today's fortune cookie is associated with the forthcoming book, Diagnostic Assessment at the Superior/Distinguished Threshold by Bella Cohen.  Available on pre-order at the MSI Press webstore .   Use coupon code FF25 for 25% discount. For more posts about this book and its author, 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 information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com.  Want to communicate with one of our authors? You can! Find their contact information on our  Authors' Pages .    

  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 information on  how to sub