By teaching background knowledge you are giving students a critical skill that will help them in language learning and throughout their lives. Handouts will include instruments to assess strategies and self-efficacy in language learning, sample strategies lessons, and guidelines for presenting strategies instruction. Workshops are provided to schools, universities, and other interested organizations. The cost consists of travel expenses for presenters and duplication of handouts. The objective of this project is to help foreign language teachers conduct action research in their classrooms by pairing them with mentors, providing guidance, and conducting a summer institute.
Participants decide the scope of their research and the timing.
Mentors will assist and advise participants in this process through correspondence and an optional summer institute. Teachers find that carrying out action research improves their teaching, is intellectually stimulating, and is a lot of fun. To participate, you do not need to have background in research, you just need an interest in teaching and learning of foreign languages. The database includes information on tests for adults, secondary school and university-age students in languages other than English. You can find information on test level, skills tested, test materials and format, scoring method, technical information and contact addresses.