Table of Contents:
  • Principles and practices in teaching Superior-level language skills : not just more of the same / Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman
  • Toward academic-level foreign language abilities : reconsidering foundational assumptions, expanding pedagogical options / Heidi Byrnes
  • Contexts for advanced foreign language learning : a report on an immersion institute / Heidi Byrnes
  • Bridging the gap between language for general purposes and language for work : an intensive Superior-level language/skill course for teachers, translators, and interpreters / Claudia Angelelli and Christian Degueldre
  • Learning Chinese in China : programs for developing Superior- to Distinguished-level Chinese language proficiency in China and Taiwan / Cornelius C. Kubler
  • Developing professional-level oral proficiency : the Shekhtman method of communicative teaching / Boris Shekhtman [and others]
  • The LangNet "Reading to the four" project : applied technology at higher levels of language learning / Catherine W. Ingold
  • In the quest for the Level 4+ in Arabic : training level 2-3 learners in independent reading / Elsaid Badawi
  • Teaching high-level writing skills in English at a Danish university / Tim Caudery
  • Heritage speakers as learners at the Superior level : differences and similarities between Spanish and Russian student populations / Claudia Angelelli and Olga Kagan
  • Teaching Russian language teachers in eight summer institutes in Russian language and culture / Zita Dabars and Olga Kagan
  • Understanding the learner at the Superior-Distinguished threshold / Madeline E. Ehrman
  • Preliminary qualitative findings from a study of the processes leading to the Advanced Professioanl Proficiency Level (ILR 4) / Betty Lou Leaver with Sabine Atwell.