Eric Herman

The international standard for optics drawing notations, ISO 10110, uses a set of coded notations to indicate optical tolerances and requirements to mitigate any ambiguity in an optics drawing. This book provides a foundation for understanding the fundamentals of ISO 10110.

For teachers in need of practical ways to assess communicative proficiency. This guide presents the terminology of communicative language teaching and testing, including a critical review of the proficiency guidelines from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Improved testing methods and practical tasks and evaluation criteria are recommended. NOTE: This guide is also in Assessing Spanish Proficiency with Stories and Assessing French Proficiency with Stories.

2 books in 1: Assessing Proficiency in the Classroom + Speed Readings for Spanish Learners. The proficiency guide presents the terminology of communicative language teaching and testing, including a critical review of the proficiency guidelines from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Improved testing methods and practical tasks are recommended. In addition, there are thirty 400-word stories (which get progressively harder) written within the highest frequency 300 words of the language. Each story has a 10-question multiple-choice quiz. One potential use of the stories and quizzes is to test fluency, as well as to develop fluency in a reading fluency course. The researched benefits of such a course are reviewed. This book is intended to support teachers of a story-based approach to test how they teach, and can help any communicative language teacher to use stories as the basis of a variety of communicative tasks.

I wanted a book I could read easily with my elementary-aged, Spanish beginner students and this collection of classic fairy and "fractured" fairy tales is the result. 15 total stories/chapters. 102 pages. 200 new words, 250 cognates in the whole book. Many fewer new words per story, each of which can be read on its own. There is considerable language overlap among all 15 stories and especially between each of the three versions of the same fairy tale. There are 5 main fairy tales: 1) Three Billy Goats Gruff, 2) Goldilocks, 3) Little Red Riding Hood, 4) The Three Little Pigs, 5) Jack and the Beanstalk. There are 3 versions of each classic fairy tale: 1) The popularly known story, 2) The story retold from a character's point of view and either arguing for his/her innocence or making a confession, 3) The story of what happened next, after the events of the popularly known story.