{"id":681674,"date":"2023-12-18T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=681674"},"modified":"2023-12-18T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:52:01","slug":"journal-for-distinguished-language-studies-volume-8-20212022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/journal-for-distinguished-language-studies-volume-8-20212022_681674.html","title":{"rendered":"Journal for Distinguished Language Studies volume 8 2021-2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The purpose of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies <\/em>is to provide a forum for exchanging information about teaching to and reaching near-native foreign language proficiency for teachers, learners, and professional language users. Areas of interest include research, theory, and practical application.<\/p>\n

Currently published biennually, from 2003-2010, the JDLS <\/em>was published by the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers, which closed in 2010. Since 2011, journal has been published by MSI Press LLC in Hollister, California.<\/p>\n

Always cutting-edge and containing experience and research unavailable mostly anywhere else about teaching and learning at such high levels of foreign language proficiency, articles in Volume 8 present personal experience, teaching experience, and research in academia and at government Institutions in the USA and France, and includes a range of foreign languages: Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish (including heritage Spanish), and formative assessment that can be used with any foreign language. Five books on high-level-proficiency topics are reviewed.<\/p>\n

The eighth volume of the JDLS contains the following articles:<\/p>\n

How I Attained “Near-Native” Proficiency in Chinese (Cornelius C. Kubler, Williams College)<\/p>\n

Beyond the Language: Debating as High-Intensity Cultural Engagement & Leadership (Emilie Cleret, French War College)<\/p>\n

Helping Learners Achieve the Distinguished Level of Proficiency (James E. Bernhardt, Foreign Service Institute)<\/p>\n

Roadmaps to Distinguished Speaking Proficiency (Jack Franke, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)<\/p>\n

On the Cusp: Zone of Proximal Development Tables to Guide Formative Assessment (Betty Lou Leaver, MSI Press LLC)<\/p>\n

Protocol-Based Formative Assessment: Evolution and Revolution at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (Andrew R. Corin & Sergey Entis, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)<\/p>\n

The following books are reviewed:<\/p>\n

(1) Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Native like Proficiency: Motivation, Cognition, and Identity <\/em>by Zoltán Dörnyei and Katarina Mentzelopoulos, reviewed by Natalia Lord, (2) Mastering Italian through Global Debate <\/em>by Marie Bertola and Sandra Carletti, reviewed by Alessandra Rice and Francesca Gasparella, (3) Mastering Spanish through Global Debate <\/em>by Nieves Pérez Knapp, Krishuana Hines-Gaither, and Morella Ruscitti-Tovar, reviewed by Joseph Fees, (4) Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency <\/em>by Katarina Mentzelopoulos and Zoltán Dörnyei with Capucine Trotignon, reviewed by Thomas Jesús Garza and (5) Practices That Work: Bringing Learners to Professional Proficiency in World Languages<\/em>, edited by Thomas Jesús Garza, reviewed by Michael Wei.<\/p>\n

CFP, Volume 9 (2023-2024): JDLS – MSI Press MSI Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Journal available at Amazon<\/a> and Barnes & Noble<\/a> individual articles for sale at www.msipress.com\/shop<\/p>\n

For more information: www.msipress.com\/journal-for-distinguished-language-studies<\/a><\/p>\n

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Contact Person:<\/strong> Betty Lou Leaver, Managing Editor
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