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Learner Feedback for Language Growth: A Guidebook for Evaluating Learner Work Through Performance Domains and Indicators gives you concrete examples of the type of feedback that empowers your learners, making them eager to learn more and continue their growth in the language. Going far beyond simply training teachers to rate language samples, this book is brimming with detailed tools and templates to guide learners’ performance, help them set personal goals, and tailor their own language journey. Using the five critical domains of language performance as a jumping off point, the authors show you how to get your students to take ownership of their language learning and go far beyond the classroom in the process. Learn how to go far beyond letter grading, highlighted errors, and simple corrections and instead transform your learners’ experience, using this text as your ultimate guide!

How to approach grammar when teaching for proficiency in today’ s world language classrooms can be challenging and confusing. Many teachers wrongly believe that proficiency-based instruction means no attention to grammar, but this couldn’ t be less true! Many teachers feel so strongly about teaching grammar that they continue with outdated methods, even while they incorporate other proficiency-based methods. Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency provides readers with clear, concrete, and easily applicable guidance on how to approach grammar in a proficiency-based classroom. This book will be your guide in redefining your relationship with grammar, and ensuring that it is used in a way that supports the proven proficiency-based approach to language learning! Using real-world exercises and examples, you will get applicable strategies to incorporate grammar into your lesson plans. Grammar is not a bad word! This book will show you how to integrate it seamlessly into your teaching...let's go!