Margaret Malone

ACTFL | What proficiency levels do K-16 world language learners… actfl.org/research/resea… Thanks to Koen and Matt for their great work!

We revised the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines! Because words matter.

We developed an ASL test! See you at Convention in Philly!

Our costume game is still strong.

What a great ECOLT. Here, ACTFL staff and colleagues presented on process of developing the ASL AAPPL. It's been an amazing journey. Congrats to our colleague Abbie Finnegan who successfully defended her dissertation proposal and became ABD a few days later! Thanks, @AELRCDC!

So great to catch up with Jieun Kim, who worked with our Assessment and Research Team in the summer of 23!

📕 VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB ALERT 📕 Please join us on Tuesday, October 22 at 4pm ET to discuss Reuben Vyn’s article, Leveraging the AAPPL for positive washback in K-12 classrooms. REGISTER NOW: bit.ly/3Xg6Fsv

ACTFL is pleased to announce the appointment of Lawrence “Larry” Paska, PhD, CAE, as its new executive director, effective October 21, 2024. Read the full press release at: actfl.org/news/actfl-wel…

Such a great Not Your Typical Book Club! We discussed Vinall et al. "Investigating L2 writers' uses of machine translation and other online tools". Thanks to the authors and all who joined!

So wonderful to catch up with my dear friend and colleague, Paul Sandrock, and the amazing Jean Sandrock. Language connects!

It was so wonderful to meet Nyshae Gibson from Newport News at the JNCL Briefing yesterday!

You can earn $100!

"I wasn't trained in ethics, I was trained in statistics." Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Messick Lecture, July 4, 2024. Discuss!

On March 13, 2020, I attended a dear friend's retirement party at FSI. Today, the ILR was held there (with an online option) for the first time in over four years!

@LangLoungePod @michelleolah @actfl Thanks, Michelle! Always fun to discuss proficiency, esp with you!

#ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines have been revised! 👈@michelleolah welcomes Meg Malone @mmaloactfl @ACTFL Director of Assessment and Research to go over what has changed on Language Lounge #81!☕️ waysidepublishing.com/podcasts #langchat #earlylang 🌐

Hi Colleagues, Foreign Language Annals is seeking abstracts for a 2025 dedicated issue. @FrancisTroyan @actfl @langchatPLN onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

So great to see so many colleagues at ISLSP/CIBER at GW, especially Suzanne, an ACTFL member from North Carolina who teaches high school Spanish! #actfl

The AAPPL contributes to positive washback! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@actfl @FrancisTroyan @KJDavin So fortunate to work with such wonderful colleagues!

ACTFL is proud to announce that Drs. Kristin Davin & Francis Troyan will serve as Co-Editors of the scholarly journal Foreign Language Annals (FLA) effective May 1, 2024. They have served as Interim Co-Editors since August 2023. @FrancisTroyan @KJDavin bit.ly/3QfQdWp