Blackmon, C. & Pagcaliwagan, L. (1997). Small world language and culture for children: FLEX and the new Standards . In Terry, R. M. (Ed.), Addressing the Standards for Foreign Language Learning . (pp. 99-114). Valdosta, GA: Southern Conference on Language Teaching. This chapter describes a...
McGinnis, S. (1999). RE: standards. ADFL Bulletin , 31(1), (80-81). This opinion piece would interest professors of Chinese and other LCTLs. The author encourages viewing the Standards not as a threat to academic freedom but as a positive challenge to professionalism. He discusses how the...
Lewelling, V. & Rennie, J. (1998). National Standards: Preparing for the future. ERIC Review , 6, (24-26). This essay article would provide K-12 teachers of any language with a brief introduction to the Standards. It is a general overview of the Standards and describes their purpose and...
Everson, M. E. (2009). The importance of Standards . In Everson, M. E. & Xiao, Y. (Ed.), Teaching Chinese as a foreign language: Theories and applications . (pp. 3-17). Boston, MA: Cheng &Tsui. Written for practicing or prospective Chinese language teachers who have no knowledge of the...