august/september 2015 | volume 10 | issue 3
Features
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Groundbreaking ACTFL Study
Measures Interpretive Listening
and Reading
FOCUS TOPIC
Gaining Intercultural Communicative Competence
• Solving Problems Globally
and Locally
• Implementing Critical
Pedagogy
• Connecting Learners
• Exploring Perspectives
• Turning Students into
Cultural Explorers
• Developing Educators’
Global Competence
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ON THE COVER:
Congratulations to ACTFL Global
Engagement Initiative Programs
2015 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the
Year Nicole Naditz in her classroom at Bella
Vista High School, Fair Oaks, CA.
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Introducing the Languages and
Literacy Collaboration Center
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Donna Clementi
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2015
Teachers of World Languages Are
Teachers of Literacy
Francesco L. Fratto
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Interview with ACTFL National
Language Teacher of the Year
Nicole Naditz
Departments
President’s Message
ACTFL President
Jacque Bott Van Houten
Breaking News
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28 Introduction:
GAINING INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
44 Turning Students into Cultural
Explorers
Lindsy L. Myers and Stéphanie Pellet
Manuela Wagner and Michael Byram
48 Freedom: Using Familiar
Constructs to Cultivate
Learners’ Awareness of Diverse
Perspectives
Inside ACTFL
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32 Gaining Global Competence:
Solving Problems Globally and
Locally
Tech Watch
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Carrie Toth
Isabelle Drewelow
So You Say
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Upcoming Events Calendar
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36 Critical Pedagogy for
Intercultural Communicative
Competence
Advertiser Index
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51 Educators’ Global Competence
Development: Implications for
Teacher Education and Language
Teaching
BriefBits9
Announcements63
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Stacey Margarita Johnson and
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40 Developing Intercultural
Communicative Competence:
Just a Click Away
54 Transforming Learners
Through Intercultural
Competence
Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco
Deb S. Reisinger and Joan Clifford
42 “Pinterested” in Culture:
Using the Digital World to Explore
Diverse Cultural Perspectives
Claire Mitchell
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