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Advanced Foreign Language Learning: A Challenge to College Programs. Issues in Language Program Direction.

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Byrnes, Heidi, Ed.; Maxim, Hiram H., Ed. – 2004

This book includes the following chapters: "Literacy and Advanced Foreign Language Learning: Rethinking he Curriculum" (Richard G. Kern); "A Template for Advanced Learner Tasks: Staging Genre Reading and Cultural Literacy Through the Precis" (Janet Swaffar); "Fostering Advanced L2 Literacy: A Genre-Based, Cognitive…

Descriptors: Advanced Students, Business Communication, College Students, Curriculum Design

Developing Professional-Level Language Proficiency.

Leaver, Betty Lou, Ed.; Shekhtman, Boris, Ed. – 2002

This collection of papers examines approaches to teaching near-native ability in foreign languages. The 13 papers focus on the following: (1) "Principles and Practices in Teaching Superior-Level Language Skills: Not Just More of the Same" (Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman); (2) "Toward Academic Level Foreign Language Abilities:…

Descriptors: Adult Education, Advanced Students, Arabic, Chinese