World Language Teaching Resources

The following are resources and communities for world language educators to continue to learn and develop their teaching practices and how they conduct student assessments. 

Language Resource Centers

These organizations are funded through Title VI funds by the United States Department of Education. The goal is to promote the learning and teaching of foreign languages in the United States through improving language teacher education, developing improved assessment measures, and conducting research. There are fifteen centers that provide valuable information.

• AELRC (Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center) – Georgetown University and the Center for Applied Linguistics
• CALPER (Center for Advanced language Proficiency Education and Research) – Penn State
• CASLS (Center for Applied Second Language Studies) – University of Oregon
• CelCAR (Center for languages of the Central Asian Region) – Indiana University
• CERCELL (Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy) – University of Arizona
• COERLL (Center for Open educational Resources & Language Learning) – University of Texas at Austin
• CULTR (Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research) – Georgia State University
• L2TReC (Second Language Teaching and Research Center) – University of Utah
• NALRC (National African Language Resource Center) – Indiana University
• NEALRC (National East Asian Languages Resource Center) – Ohio State University
• NFLRC (National Foreign Language Resource Center) – University of Hawaii
• NHLRC (National Heritage Language Resource Center) – University of California, Los Angeles & Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching
• NRCAL (National Resource Center for Asian Languages) – California State University, Fullerton
• OLRC (Open language Resource Center) – University of Kansas
• PEARLL (Professionals in Education Advancing Research and Language Learning) – University of Maryland
• SEELRC (Slavic and east European language Research Center) – Duke University

World Language Organizations

• West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association (WVFLTA)
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
• American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
• American Classical League (ACL)
• Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)
• Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools (CLASS)
• American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR)
• American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI)
• Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT)
• Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages