Enacting the Work of Language Instruction, Vol. 2

Elevate your language teaching with research-backed, high-leverage practices for impactful instruction and enhanced student outcomes.

Enacting the Work of Language Instruction, Vol. 2 equips language teachers and educators with essential, research-based strategies to transform their classrooms. This volume delves into four critical high-leverage teaching practices (HLTPs), providing a roadmap for creating meaningful learning contexts, designing effective instruction, fostering purposeful written communication, and developing contextualized performance assessments.

• Establish meaningful and purposeful contexts for language instruction.
• Plan instruction using an iterative process for backward design.
• Engage learners in purposeful written communication.
• Develop contextualized performance assessments.

Designed for language teachers, teacher educators, and pre-service teachers, this volume bridges theory and practice, offering practical tools, activities, and rubrics to enhance teaching effectiveness and student engagement. Discover how to enact these HLTPs and adapt them creatively to meet the unique needs of your learners.

Eileen W. Glisan is Distinguished University Professor of Spanish at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she coordinates the Spanish Education K-12 Program. President of ACTFL in 2010, she is co-author of Teacher’ s Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction, currently in its fifth edition, and of the 2013 text, Implementing Integrated Performance Assessment. She received the 1996 Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education and the 2008 Northeast Conference Nelson H. Brooks Award for Distinguished Service and Leadership to the Profession. Richard Donato is Professor and Chair of the Department of Instruction and Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. His research earned him the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/Modern Language Journal Paul Pimsleur research award (1997 and 2006) and the Northeast Conference Freeman Award (2004). In 2016, he was awarded the University of Pittsburgh Provost’ s award for research mentoring. He is the co-author of the book A Tale of Two Schools: Developing Sustainable Early Language Programs.