Computerized Oral Proficiency Instrument
Now available!
Center for Applied Linguistics (2008)

This semi-adaptive test provides language educators with a computerized, time-efficient assessment of their students’ oral language proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic or Spanish. Performance on the COPI is rated according to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines – Speaking (Revised 1999).

Multimedia Rater Training Program (MRTP)
Center for Applied Linguistics (2007)

Use the MRTP to learn to rate oral proficiency (now in French, German, and Spanish), or refresh your current rating skllls.

SOPA Online Training
New moderated courses starting in November 2008 and January 2009!

The Moderated Introduction to SOPA provides all of the content of the self-paced introductory course and includes interactive discussions, advice, and feedback by an experienced SOPA trainer.

Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Educaiton
Tara Williams Fortune and Diane J. Tedick (2008)

This volume explores how language immersion offers learners the opportunity to acquire language skills via “pathways” through the systems that lead to multilingualism, including foreign language (“one-way”), “two-way,” and indigenous immersion programs.

Two-Way Immersion (TWI) Package
Center for Applied Linguistics (2007)

CAL has assembled this package to help teachers and administrators understand the essential components of dual-language education and how to implement high-quality, effective programs. This package can also be useful for practitioners looking for ways to evaluate and improve their current two-way programs.

An Insider's Guide to SIOP Coaching
by Arieh (Ari) Sherris, Thomas A. Bauder, and Lindsey Hillyard (2007)

Written for teacher educators, staff developers, and others who know the SIOP Model and are helping teachers implement it in their lessons, this guide offers practical suggestions for establishing productive coaching relationships, helping teachers with effective SIOP lesson planning, conducting observations and providing feedback, and sustaining SIOP implementation over time.

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What's Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?
New Edition
Dorothy Kauffman (2007)

What's Different about Teaching Reading to Students Learning English? provides teacher trainers with a curriculum to guide the professional development of classroom and ESL teachers who teach reading in classes where some or all of the students are English language learners.

Learn more about CAL's professional development services based on What's Different? or download a sample of the materials.

Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners
Diane August and Timothy Shanahan (Eds.) (2006)

This volume reports the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. The formal charge to the panel—a distinguished group of expert researchers in reading, language, bilingualism, research methods, and education—was to identify, assess, and synthesize research on the education of language-minority children and youth with respect to their attainment of literacy.