National Foreign Language Resource Centers (NFLRC)

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Title VI Language Resource Centers support the nation’s capacity for language teaching and learning. LRCs offer free or low-cost teaching materials, professional development opportunities, assessment and evaluation services, and more. Download our brochure to find out how we can support your classroom.

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CeLCAR Bloomington, IN

Indiana University's Center for Languages of the Central Asian Regions (CeLCAR) is one of sixteen Title VI Language Resource Centers in the United States and the only one dedicated to the critical languages of Central Asia and surrounding countries. CeLCAR is dedicated to promoting the teaching and learning of the languages and cultures of Central Asia through the development of language learning materials (online courses, web and mobile applications, textbooks, multimedia resources), teacher training, and intensive language summer courses.

http://iub.edu/~celcar/main.php

NFLRC Honolulu, HI

Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) offers a framework for designing powerful, culturally contextualized experiences that create opportunities for learners to use their language to address real world needs that are personally meaningful to them. Interested in learning more about PBLL? Join us online: Envisioning PBLL (FREE online symposium), January 17-18, 2018. Learn how to craft quality projects: Fundamentals of PBLL (online institute), starting January 31, 2018.

http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/

CALPER University Park, PA

CALPER’s multi-module series for intermediate and advanced learners of Korean focuses on helping students master discourse features of Korean that are essential in developing higher levels of proficiency. Guided exercises, awareness-raising activities, and small projects have been created on the basis of authentic Korean texts and address the National Standards for Korean. Teacher have access to 20 successful program-enhancing units on a range of themes.

http://calper.la.psu.edu/Korean_Language

COERLL Austin, TX

COERLL's mission is to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Internet public (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.). The term OER refers to any educational material offered freely for anyone to use, typically involving some permission to re-mix, improve, and redistribute. Thus, COERLL seeks to promote a culture of collaboration that lies at the heart of the Open Education movement. In addition, COERLL aims to reframe foreign language education in terms of bilingualism and/or multilingualism. As such, all COERLL resources strive to represent more accurately language development and performance along dialectal and proficiency continua.

http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/

Title	Format	Sponsor
PErCOLATE: Topic-based Modules for Preparing the Future FL Professoriate to Teach with a Multiliteracies Approach across the Undergraduate FL Curriculum	Web
Description The long-standing collegiate FL teacher training paradigm with its short-term focus on methodologies and techniques for teaching lower-level language courses has been viewedparticularly by Language Program Directors (LPDs)as woefully inadequate for preparing tomorrows professoriate to teach in increasingly diverse programmatic contexts. Further, given the 2007 MLA Report calling for a more coherent curriculum in which language, literature, and culture are taught as a continuous whole (p. 3), shifts in the content of FL graduate students' professional development as teachers are overdue. As a response to the shortcomings previously noted, this project will develop a set of modules for professional development of teaching assistants (TAs) in several languages that will supplement the model of professional development already in place by adding flexible materials and activities that focus on language teaching at higher levels and provide an alternative structure for professional development in programs where there is either a Language Program Director (LPD) with no applied linguistics background or no LPD at all (the norm in most LCTL language programs). The approach to FL teaching and learning foregrounded in these modules will be based on multiliteracies. Lesson study, a self-directed, collaborative, inquiry-based learning approach will provide a framework to guide FL TAs reflective examination of their instructional practices and students learning as they work through a module. On this website (work in progress), the authors will be posting modules and related webinars and bibliographies. They will also be announcing workshops and conferences where they will be presenting the project and its outcomes. They will be watching for other related resources on the professional development of foreign language teaching assistants and adjunct instructors and will bring them to the website visitors' attention as they become available. Resource Link
Games To Teach: Developing Digital Game-Mediated Foreign Language Literacies	Web
Description Digital games are socio-cultural practices and products, and gaming has become a mainstream, global cultural force. Applied linguists and FL educators have noted that gameplay is mediated by language use and social interaction, thereby also making it a potentially rich context for language acquisition. Off-the-shelf and online digital games are produced by a diversity of countries in a variety of languages. Despite the interest in and availability of these games, ways in which their benefits can be harnessed to enhance FL learning have yet to be fully explored. The primary goal of this blog is to provide FL educators the resources (both material and pedagogical) needed to design, implement, and assess digital game-mediated learning activities that have the potential to develop FL multiliteracies. Resource Link
CERCLL Native Speakers Series	Web
Description This is a series of short video clips in which native speakers of Arabic and Chinese talk about various topics. These clips can be used by FL teachers for a variety of listening comprehension activities. Resource Link
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