ACTFL 2005

November 18 – 20, 2005
Baltimore , MD

Friday, November 18, 2005

The State of Arabic K-12 Teaching in the U.S.
Dora Johnson for The National Capital Languages Resource Center

Foreign Language Assessments from CAL: Current and Future Offerings
Margaret Malone, Eileen Lorenz, Lynn Thompson, and Sophia Birdas

Saturday, November 19, 2005

Teaching Language for the Workplace: Employee Needs and Employer Expectations
Deborah Kennedy for The National Capital Languages Resource Center

The Quest for a Listening and Reading Comprehension Test
Nancy Rhodes, Lynn Thompson, Eileen Lorenz, and Ingrid Pufahl

Bringing New Teachers Up to Speed
Dora Johnson

Building the Heritage Language Alliance: Collecting Data, Advancing the Field Joy Kreeft Peyton, CAL; Ana Maria Schwartz, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and Shuhan Wang, Delaware Department of Education

Developing Arabic and Russian Web-delivered Listening and Reading Tests
David MacGregor and Margaret Malone  

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Devleoping Understanding of Oral Language Proficiency through Distance Learning
Margaret Malone, Alicia Rasmussen, Christina Cavella, and David MacGregor

K-8 Student Oral Proficiency Assessment (SOPA)
Lynn Thompson and Beverly Boyson

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