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Additional Materials and Links
Value Rubrics
ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012
Consortium for Assessing Performance Standards Rubrics
NAEP Foreign Language assessment
Language learning journeys and destinations: Are we there yet? (article by B. Rifkin)
See also
“Student Motivation and World Language Curricula at the Post-Secondary Level: Responses to the MLA Report on Foreign Language Education.” ADFL Bulletin 42.1 (2012): 68-75.
“A Ceiling Effect in Traditional Classroom Foreign Language Instruction: Data from Russian.” Modern Language Journal 89.1 (2005): 3-18.
“Oral Proficiency Learning Outcomes and Curricular Design.” Foreign Language Annals: Special Issue on the Oral Proficiency Interview 36.4 (2003): 582-588.
ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012
Consortium for Assessing Performance Standards Rubrics
NAEP Foreign Language assessment
Language learning journeys and destinations: Are we there yet? (article by B. Rifkin)
See also
“Student Motivation and World Language Curricula at the Post-Secondary Level: Responses to the MLA Report on Foreign Language Education.” ADFL Bulletin 42.1 (2012): 68-75.
“A Ceiling Effect in Traditional Classroom Foreign Language Instruction: Data from Russian.” Modern Language Journal 89.1 (2005): 3-18.
“Oral Proficiency Learning Outcomes and Curricular Design.” Foreign Language Annals: Special Issue on the Oral Proficiency Interview 36.4 (2003): 582-588.
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About the Presenter
Benjamin Rifkin, Provost and V.P. for Educational Affairs at Ithaca College is a renowned teacher, scholar and administrator. After earning his doctoral degree, Rifkin joined the faculty of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directed the Russian language program. From 1999–2003 he also served as director of the Middlebury College Russian School. In 2005 he left Wisconsin for Temple University, serving for three years as vice dean for undergraduate affairs for the College of Liberal Arts and until 2009 as a professor of Russian. From 2009 to 2015 he served as Professor of Russian and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at The College of New Jersey. Rifkin served as president of AATSEEL, and on the boards of directors of ACTFL and ACTR, and has been recognized with awards for teaching from UW-Madison and for service from AATSEEL, Middlebury College, and ACTR. He is the author or coauthor of several textbooks on the Russian language and has published dozens of book chapters and journal articles.
Rifkin is a co-author, together with Evgeny Dengub and Susanna Nazarova, of a new textbook for the intermediate-level Russian language classroom, Panorama, coming out from Georgetown University Press in time for fall 2017 classes.
Rifkin is a co-author, together with Evgeny Dengub and Susanna Nazarova, of a new textbook for the intermediate-level Russian language classroom, Panorama, coming out from Georgetown University Press in time for fall 2017 classes.
