Developing an oral proficiency program is not easy. My former colleague, Holly Morse and I submitted a proposal on this topic for ACTFL 2019 as we felt we had a lot to share on how we led various departments in shifting to oral proficiency-based programs. Our goal was to keep it real, no sugar coating.

When I was in my undergrad program, I had two professors who stood out to me. The first shredded our papers with his red pen. The second, gave little feedback, and what she did provide was vague.