Meeting 03 • 15 January 2008 • Tuesday

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Main topic(s): Language Standards and Widely-Used Assessment Instruments

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(5) Overview and comments about previous meeting; housekeeping: we'll be passing around the class portraits - label your picture CLEARLY with your name, and write "OK" if you will permit us to post your picture and your name on the course website so people can know their classmates (or send a picture of your own for the site to Dr. Fischer)

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(60) ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (notes) & the TOEFL: the "organizing principles" of testing and teaching - what everybody needs to know about both. Supplementary reading about TOEFL

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(10) Break: Go get your coffee or your snack, but bring it back. We'll start promptly after 10 minutes, with or without you! (Sorry we didn't have the break!)

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(10) If time: Briefly about reliability, validity, backwash - groups discuss and report (with constant reference to Hughes, of course, but also to your own encounters with RVB)

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(10) More about the major project, in conjunction with some MORE fast-breaking opportunities

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(10) More about the FL and AL "cultures": the background and pursuits of the course instructors

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(10) Introduction of Assignment 2: Rate your own language proficiency using the ACTFL scale (due 22 Jan.)

(10) Announcements, debriefing and summation
Upcoming class meetings (17 January 2008, Thursday)

We are trying to arrange an additional classroom so that we can do breakout sessions for pseudo-OPI training (FL) and a detailed look at the TOEFL (AL), ideally with both sessions video-recorded for those who wish to keep up with both areas. Rooms have been arranged: FL people stay in Broadway 220 classroom; AL people meet for entire session in Ondine 202
Upcoming assignment(s)

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