Grand challenges and great potential in foreign language teaching and learning

This article argues for the field of foreign languages to begin to identify and define our Grand Challenges, which are difficult yet solvable problems facing our field. Seeking answers to these challenges can provide new opportunities for collaboration and can spur new directions and innovation within language learning and teaching. Researchable questions that emerge from these Grand Challenges can form a research trajectory, build community support, and contribute to changing public opinion about the role of languages in greater society

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• K-12 world language teachers’ use of conferences as professional development

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• Alors, on va faire une activité

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• A cross-lagged panel analysis of self-efficacy, teacher grit, teaching enjoyment, and work engagement among foreign language teachers

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• Understanding pre-adolescent learners’ foreign language enjoyment

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• Building a classroom discourse community in university Spanish courses

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• Heritage language education in the United States

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• A Review of High‐Leverage Teaching Practices

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• Classroom Discourse in Foreign Language Classrooms

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• Assessing the Validity of ACTFL Can‐Do Statements for Spoken Proficiency

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• The Automobile Age

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• The Role of Literacy Level in Second Language Acquisition

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• Describing Profiles of Instructional Practice

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• A High‐Leverage Language Teaching Practice

  Open Access•Erin Kearney•Foreign Language Annals•2015

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• Exploring the Uses and Usefulness of ACTFL Oral Proficiency Ratings and Standards in College Foreign Language Departments

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• An Investigation of the Construct Validity of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and Oral Interview Procedure

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• Oral Proficiency Learning Outcomes and Curricular Design

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• The Evidence Is In

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• Noticing Discourse

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• Learning to Mean in Spanish Writing

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• Standards for Foreign Language Learning

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• Back to the Future

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• Content Knowledge for Teaching

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