Latest Books

ACTFL releases new books and updated editions throughout the year. Check this page often for a quick overview of our most recent books. Click on each book title to be taken directly to the book in the ACTFL bookstore to learn more and purchase.

Learner Feedback
Learner Feedback for Language Growth

By Karen Nickel, Sarah Strauss, and Meghan Budke. A Guidebook for Evaluating Learner Work Through Performance Domains and Indicators gives you concrete examples of the type of feedback that empowers your learners, this book is brimming with detailed tools and templates to guide learners’ performance, help them set personal goals, and tailor their own language journey.

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Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency

The second Proficiency Based Instruction book is authored by Catherine Ritz and Mike Travers, this book shows you how to integrate grammar into a proficiency-focused classroom. Using real-world exercises and examples, you will get applicable strategies to incorporate grammar into your lesson plans.

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The Integrated Performance Assessment: Twenty Years and Counting

By Francis Troyan, Bonnie Adair-Hauck, and Eileen Glisan, this new title builds upon the original framework presented to guide instructors in designing and implementing this cutting-edge assessment into their world language classrooms.

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Proficiency-based Instruction: Input & Interaction in World Language Education

Authored by Catherine Ritz and Christina Tora this book will equip teachers of any language and of any level with specific, practical, and straightforward tools to bring input and interaction to life in the classroom.

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