KWLA ’08: Assessing comprehension without English
Think you can’t know if students understand without them giving you translations (or you providing them)? See if this presentation can change your mind. Tips on why and how we should be assessing comprehension without English in the world language classroom.
This presentation was given at the Kentucky World Language Association’s fall 2008 conference in Lexington, KY.
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I love your website – going back & reading it from the beginning! You’ve already given me so many great ideas – I can’t wait to check out this presentation!
Thanks, I hope you find lots of helpful material!
I am a new Spanish teacher and I’m very interested in seeing your presentation. For some reason, when I clicked on your KWLA presentation it said I need permission to see it. If you could somehow send me the presentation, that would be awesome!! Thanks!
Sorry about the confusion here Laney! This was so long ago, it doesn’t seem to be linked to my email address, so even I can’t open it! I will try to locate the presentation it’s referring to and put it here in a better format – and write more details in the blog post.