Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching GRAMMAR for Proficiency - Softcover

Ritz, Catherine; Travers, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1961332116 ISBN 13: 9781961332119

Publisher: ACTFL, 2024

Synopsis

Unlock the secret to seamlessly integrating grammar into proficiency-based world language classrooms!

Many world language teachers struggle with how to approach grammar in a proficiency-based classroom. This book provides clear, concrete, and easily applicable guidance on how to redefine your relationship with grammar and ensure it supports a proven proficiency-based approach to language learning.

Using real-world exercises and examples, Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency gives you applicable strategies to incorporate grammar into your lesson plans. Discover how to integrate grammar seamlessly into your teaching and support proficiency-based language learning. Let's go!

About this title

About the Author

Mike Travers is a teacher at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts and has taught Spanish and French at the novice and intermediate levels. He is an active presenter at MAFLA, NECTFL, and ACTFL, and currently serves on the MAFLA Board of Directors. Mike has a true passion for working with districts and teachers as they make the shift to a student-centered, proficiency-based approach in their world language programs. Catherine Ritz, EdD is a clinical associate professor and program director for World Language Education and Curriculum & Teaching at the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is the author of Leading Your World Language Program: Strategies for Design & Supervision, Even If You Don’ t Speak the Language! (Routledge, 2021) and co-author of Proficiency-Based Instruction: Input & Interaction in World Language Education (ACTFL, 2022).

Edition details

• Publisher: ACTFL
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1961332116
• ISBN 13: 9781961332119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282