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Setting Priorities for Proficiency in the Foreign Language Classroom

LORIN PRITIKIN Lorin Pritikin has been teaching French for more than twenty years in Chicago, Illinois. The last 17 years, she has been teaching all levels of high school language and literature at the Francis W. Parker School, a JK-12 Independent School on Chicago's lakefront. Ms. Pritikin has been a frequent presenter at professional conferences and has offered teacher training nationally and internationally on a broad range of topics including: differentiation for students with languagebased learning challenges; non-traditional approaches to teaching foreign language to learning disabled students; la francophonie; and survival skills for new teachers. Ms. Pritikin designed and implemented her school's first alternative foreign language program for at-risk students--i.e., students who had had prior failures in foreign language learning or who were diagnosed with language learning deficits. The program was inaugurated in 1995 and has served as a model for similar programs in a number of other schools in Illinois and in other states. Ms. Pritikin is currently working with a foreign language publishing house to develop teacher resources for modifying traditional foreign language programs to meet the needs of language-challenged students.