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CASLS believes that meaningful communication is the purpose of language learning. The Center’s commitment to sharing resources and research expertise related to this belief is well-documented through its various initiatives like Games2Teach and the Bridging Project. Due to this commitment and CASLS’ status as a National Foreign Language Resource Center and leader in world language education, CASLS was recently subcontracted by EPIC (the Educational Policy Improvement Center) to engage in an evaluation of the language acquisition course for the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme.

The evaluation report, “Alignment and coherence of language acquisition development in the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program,” was recently published by the International Baccalaureate. This report includes literature review findings, a within-document analysis, a cross-document analysis, a progression analysis, and a discrepancy analysis. Check it out at http://www.ibo.org/research/programme-development-research/myp-studies/.