ACTFL OPI Workshop

[Benjamin Rifkin]

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) will
present an Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop hosted by the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in Madison on September 24-27, 1997.  The workshop on
administering the oral proficiency interview will include sections in
Russian, Less Commonly Taught Languages (including Czech, Polish,
Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian and other languages of Central and Eastern
Europe), ESL as well as French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

The cost of the workshop is $630 for members of ACTFL (membership costs
$65) and $790 for non-members (academic).

For more information about the workshop including how to register for it,
write, phone, e-mail or fax:

Denise Morrison
Professional Development Department
ACTFL
6 Executive Plaza
Yonkers, NY  10701

tel. 914/963-8830, ext. 229
fax. 914/963-1275
e-mail:  dmmactfl at aol.com

Registration deadline is August 13, 1997.



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Benjamin Rifkin
Assistant Professor of Russian,
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction & Teacher Training
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI  53706

e-mail:  brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu
telephone:  608/262-1623, 608/262-3498
fax:  608/265-2814