SCOLT Publications
SCOLT Publications
SCOLT accepts orders pre-paid by check or money order. Sorry, no credit cards. Institutional purchase orders are accepted. To order contact SCOLT’s Executive Director, Lynne McClendon.
SCOLT publishes its semi-annual newsletter, SCOLTalk, in early November and mid-April each year. The fall issue contains full details about the annual conference in February or March of the coming year. Teachers and professors in the SCOLT region who wish to receive SCOLTalk should contact SCOLT’s Executive Director, Lynne McClendon.
Dimension is the annual volume containing the selected, refereed, edited Proceedings of each year’s conference. Conference registrants and members of the SCOLT Advisory Board of Sponsors and Patrons receive a complimentary copy. Copies of the current volume are available from SCOLT Publications for US$10 each, prepaid. Also, schools and libraries may order individual issues or may subscribe to a Standing Order by contacting SCOLT’s Executive Director, Lynne McClendon.
Recent issues of Dimension:
Cherry, C. M. & Wilkerson, Carol (Eds.) (2008)
Languages for the Nation: Dimension 2008.
Drama in the Classroom and Improved Academic Performance
An Analysis of the Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) Method
Technoconstructivism and the Millennial Generation: Creative Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom
Technology for Oral Assessment
The Teacher Work Sample in Foreign Language Education
Connecting a Standards-Based Curriculum with Student Performance and Assessment
The National Security Language Initiative and Less Commonly Taught Languages
The Belgian Connection
Cherry, C. M. & Bradley, L. (Eds.) (2007)
From Practice to Profession: Dimension 2007.
NCSSFL’s LinguaFolio Project
Misperceptions of Attitudes Toward Language Study
Student Perspectives on Foundation Issues in Articulation
Germany’s Multicultural and Multiracial Issues
Representation of Latino Culture in Introductory High School Textbooks
Maya and Nahuatl in the Teaching of Spanish: Expanding the Professional Perspective
A 21st Century Approach to Integrating Culture and Communication
Integrating Stories with Multimedia into the French Language Classroom
Cherry, C. M. (Ed.) (2006)
Languages for Today’s World: Dimension 2006.
Engaging Students in the L2
FLTEACH Project: Online Database of Model Lessons with Cultural Content
Use of Blogs in L2 Instruction
Developing a Contemporary French Civilization Course: An Annotated Review of Internet Resources
The Roads to Compostela: An Immersion Experience in
Talking About Music: Ethnographic Interviews on Traditional Hispanic Songs
Teaching and Learning American Sign Language in
Cherry, C. M. & Bradley, L. (Eds.) (2005).
Languages and Language Learners. Dimension 2005.
Effect of FLEX Programs on Elementary Students’ Attitudes Toward Foreign Languages and Cultures
Developing Vocabulary Beyond the Word
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Improving Foreign Language Writing Competence
Using Computer Translation Websites to Further the Objectives of the Foreign Language Standards
Rebuilding a Dying Foreign Language Education Program
Graduate Teaching Assistant Training: Pathways to Success
Assessment and Assessment Design 1994-2004: An Annotated Bibliography
Cherry, C. M. & Bradley, L. (Eds.). (2004).
Assessment practices in foreign language education: Dimension 2004.
No child left behind in foreign language education
Using learner and teacher preparation standards to reform a language major
Student electronic portfolio assessment
Assessing readiness of foreign language education majors to take the Praxis II exam
The TPR test: Total physical response as an assessment tool
Assessing the impact of narrow listening: Students’ perceptions and performance
Accounting for Activity: Cognition and oral proficiency assessment
Building bridges for international internships
Cherry, C. M. & Bradley, L. (Eds.). (2003).
Models for excellence in second language education: Dimension 2003.
The Transnational Classroom: Connecting People, Languages, and Cultures
Creating a Language Learning Community Within and Beyond the Classroom
Stepping Out of the Classroom to Increase Spanish Language Skills and Cultural Awareness
Merging Foreign Language Theory and Practice in Designing Technology-Based Tasks
Creating Narrated Multimedia Presentations in the Second and Foreign Language Class
INTASC Model Foreign Language Standards for Beginning Teacher Licensing and Development
Alternative Teacher Preparation Programs in Foreign Languages
Group Study Abroad and Thematic Units
C. Maurice Cherry, ed. 2002.
Cyberspace and foreign languages: Making the connection. Dimension 2002.
Connecting Through Cyberspace: Correspondence Projects for Beginning and Intermediate Students
Tradition and Technology in Language Teaching
From Language Lab to Multimedia Lab: Oral Language Assessment in the New
Idiom Instruction Through Multimedia and Cultural Concepts
Online Writing and
Contextualizing Culture: Using Authentic Resources to Develop Cultural Awareness
Project-Based Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom
The Effect of Songs on Text Recall and Involuntary Mental Rehearsal in Foreign Language Learning
Teacher Academies: Professional Development for a Community of Learners
C. Maurice Cherry, ed. 2001.
The Odyssey Continues: Dimension 2001.
Four Decades of Foreign Language Education: Are We Still at Cheese Station N?
Teaching French with the Internet: What the Students Want vs. What They Do
Learning Behind the Screen: Computers, Conversations, Communities
The ABC’s of Total Physical Response Storytelling
Understanding Hispanic Culture Through Music: The Theme of Nostalgia
Enhancing the Study of International Business, Foreign Languages, and the Nonlanguage Aspects of Intercultural Communication
Formative Foreign Language Program Evaluation: Dare to Find Out How Good You Really Are
C. Maurice Cherry, ed. 2000
New Millenniumn, New Directions: Dimension 2000.
A systematic approach to second language vocabulary instruction
Listening training for language learners: The Tomatis approach to second language acquisition
Thinking together: Student interaction during the FL writing process
The European Union and the second language curriculum of the 21st century
Making cultural learning authentic: Going beyond stereotype and anecdote
Correcting the problem of freeze-frame cultural stereotyping: Case study “
Extramural standards: Foreign language learning beyond the classroom
A case study of reflection in supervision: Does it have any relationship to interns’ reflectivity?
Alley, David and C. Maurice Cherry, eds. 1999
Connections Beyond the Foreign Language Classroom: Dimension 99.
Intercultural communities: Rethinking Célestin Freinet
Beyond the foreign language: Making connections through recorded oral histories
Information into action: Ideas for the business language class
Service-learning and foreign language acquisition: Working with the migrant community
Paving the way for a successful study abroad Experience: A cross-cultural orientation model
Connecting beyond the classroom: Using the internet to conduct independent study language courses
Academic alliances and articulation: Communicating across educational sectors
Foreign language instruction and block scheduling
Alley, David and Paula Heusinkveld, eds. 1998.
Communications, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, Communities: Dimension 98.
From rhetoric to reality: Applying AATSP standards to the Spanish classroom
Standards for teaching cultures: The national standards and the AATF framework
New directions in the study of French: Toward a Francophone revolution
Accessing culture and linguistic input from foreign language literary texts in the beginning language classroom
Personalizing foreign language instruction with WWW home pages
Use of writing assistant software: An effective tool in improving writing?
Connecting content areas via music in the elementary foreign language class
Using the national standards to improve foreign language articulation: An alternative to placement exams
Terry, Robert M., ed. 1997.
Addressing the Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Dimension 97.
Developing tomorrow’s technology-using foreign language teachers: Where we are, where we are going
Foreign language placement in postsecondary institutions: Addressing the problem
Pedagogy and the emerging Spanish canon
A French culture course in English: Strategies and resources
A task-based communicative approach in FLES
Vive le français: Strategies for recruiting and retaining students in French classes
Small world language and culture for children: FLEX and the new standards
Galloway, Vicki and Carol Herron, eds. 1995.
Research within reach II: Reseach- guided responses to the concerns of foreign language teachers.
This exciting volume is a survey of experts’ ideas on foreign language teaching, full of research-guided responses to the questions teachers and professors ask most often. Its eleven chapters are easy reading and offer succinct resumes of what experts have to say about language teaching. Chapters include
Research within the teacher’s reach (Donna Johnson)
Learning processes and learner strategies (Joan Rubin)
Instructional technologies (James P. Pusack and Sue K. Otto)
Teaching for cultural diversity (Genelle Morain)
Listening (Eilen W. Glisan)
Reading (Marva A. Barnett)
Speaking (Myriam Met)
Writing (Virginia Scott)
Grammar (L. Kathy Heilenman)
Vocabulary (Thomas C. Cooper)
Testing (June K. Phillips)
Slick, Sam L. and Richard B. Klein, eds. 1993.
Managing the foreign language department: A Chairperson’s primer.
This is a book that will fascinate current and aspiring department heads. This compendium of wisdom and experience is an excellent survey of the profession and the world of work in languages, foreign language education, and literatures in today’s universities and colleges. Although written by colleagues from the postsecondary level, the material is so global in scope that public and private school teachers and administrators can enjoy this book. Among the chapters are:
Recruiting, Hiring, and Evaluation Faculty
Grantsmanship
Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts
What a Dean Expects from a Department
Putting a Troubled Department Back on Course
Chairing the Small Department +Networking in Professional Associations and Meetings
Legal Issues: Employment Discrimination and Harassment
Spanish vs. French vs. German vs. Russian vs. Chinese vs. Japanese: The Blissfulness of Multiculturalism
Study Abroad Programs
How Long to Stay on the Job
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