ACTFL  San Antonio, TX  November 21, 2014
Meg Malone, AERLC
Carl Blyth, COERLL
Joy Campbell, CLEAR
Elaine Tarone, CARLA

What are the LRCs?
 The Language Resource Centers were established through US Dept. of Education Title VI funding in 1990
 Currently 16 LRCs
 2014-18 funding cycle has just begun
 LRCs are mandated to “ improve the capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively ” in the US

Where are the LRCs?

Current LRCs
 Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center (AELRC)
 Georgetown University/Center for Applied Linguistics
 Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER)
 The Pennsylvania State University
 Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CARLA)
 University of Minnesota
 Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS)
 University of Oregon
 Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy (CERCLL)
 University of Arizona
 Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC)
 City University of New York – CUNY
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Current LRCs
 Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
 Michigan State University
 Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL)
 University of Texas at Austin
 Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research (CULTR)
 Georgia State University
 National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
 University of Hawai ‘ i
 National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC)
 University of California, Los Angeles
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Current LRCs: Regional Foci
 Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)
 Indiana University
 National African Language Resource Center (NALRC)
 Indiana University
 National East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC)
 The Ohio State University
 National Resource Center for Asian Languages (NRCAL)
 California State University – Fullerton
 Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC)
 Duke University

Specific LRC Activities
 Research on new and improved teaching methods, including the use of advanced educational technology
 Development of new teaching materials reflecting the use of such research in effective teaching strategies, including:
 Significant focus on the less commonly taught languages and the publication of instructional materials in the LCTLs
 Development of materials for foreign language teachers at the elementary and secondary school levels
 Development and application of performance testing for use as a standard and comparable measurement of skill levels in all languages
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Specific LRC Activities
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 Administration and interpretation of performance tests
 Use of effective teaching strategies
 Use of new technologies
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Free Resources List
 Teacher Guides & Tools
 Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
 Directories of Resources, Databases, Bibliographies & Webinars
 Language Materials for K-12
 Language Materials for Adults
 Materials Series for Specific Languages
 Other Resources

Teacher Guides & Tools
 More than 60 listed in online handout, including:
 Alphabet Charts for Central Asian Languages
 Celebrating the World’s Languages: A Guide to Creating a World Languages
Day Event
 Content-based Language Instruction with Technology (CoBaLTT)
 Corpus Portal
 Culture Café and Language Lounge
 Elementary Immersion Learning Strategies Resource Guide
 The Essentials of Language Teaching
 LCTL Instructional Resources
 PEP (Proficiency, Efficiency, Planning) Tool
 Portfolio Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom
 Proficiency-Oriented Instruction: A Handbook for Teachers
 Rich Internet Applications
 Sailing the 5 Cs with Learning Strategies
 Task-Based Language Teaching: A Demonstration Video
 Test Development Workbook and Video
 Virtual Assessment Center and Virtual Item Bank

Teacher Guides & Tools
• Teaching Heritage
Languages: An Online
Workshop
• Self-paced online tutorials
• For world and heritage language teachers
• Teaching strategies and language specific issues
• NHLRC – University of
California, Los Angeles

Teacher Guides & Tools
 Virtual Assessment
Center
• CARLA – University of
Minnesota
• An interactive website that provides teachers with background information, step-bystep guidance and lots of practical resources on developing second language assessments

Teacher Guides & Tools

Teacher Guides & Tools
 Rich Internet
Applications
 CLEAR – Michigan
State University
 RIAs are a suite of online tools that allow teachers to easily create different kinds of interactive language learning activities.

Teacher Guides & Tools
RIA tools include:
 Audio dropbox
 Mashups
 Process writing
 Podcasting
 Character formation
 Conversations
 Jeopardy-style games
 Video repository

Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
 Twenty on online handout, including:
 American Council on Immersion Education Newsletter archives
 InterCom email service
 The Language Resource monthly e-newsletter
 Language Learning & Technology (online peer-reviewed journal)
 Heritage Language Journal (online peer-reviewed journal)
 Reading in a Foreign Language (online peer-reviewed journal)
 Language Documentation & Conservation (peer-reviewed journal)
 South Asian Language Blog

Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
 InterCom
• CASLS – University of Oregon
• Weekly email service tailored to each subscriber’s language, level of instruction, and areas of interest.
Includes an archive of over 5,000 articles

Journals, Newsletters & Blogs

Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
• Language
Learning &
Technology
• CLEAR - Michigan
State University &
NFLRC -
University of
Hawai’i
• Online peerreviewed journal

Journals, Newsletters & Blogs

Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
• Reading in a
Foreign
Language
• NFLRC -
University of
Hawai’i

Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies & Webinars
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 Advanced Language Proficiency Database
 A Focus on SpinTX – Open Video Archive for Language
Learning
 African Language Program Inventory List
 Foreign Language Assessment Directory and Tutorial *
 Human Rights in Latin America Research Resources
 LCTL Database *
 Orient Yourself: Online Catalog of Study Abroad
Opportunities in East Asia *
 Performance and Portfolio Assessment: Extended
Annotated Bibliography

Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies & Webinars
 Foreign Language
Assessment Directory
 AELRC - Georgetown
University and CAL
 Free, searchable database with information on more than 200 assessments in over 90 languages other than English; also has tutorial.

Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies & Webinars
 Orient Yourself:
Catalog of Study
Abroad Opportunities in East Asia
 NEALRC - Ohio State
University
 For American students to get information on:
 East Asian American institutes that offer study abroad programs in East Asia
 Scholarships/financial aid for study abroad

Language Materials for K-12
 A National Virtual Language Learning Lab (ANVILL)
 Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms
(French, German, Spanish)
 MOSAIC Content-based lessons tied to national standards
(French, Spanish and Japanese)
 Language and Culture Book Kits
 Video and Website for “ Chinese Out of the Box ”

• MOSAIC
• CASLS – University of Oregon
• Content-Based: Spanish,
French, Japanese
• Geography and History
• Created by language specialists and content specialists (HS & Coll)

Language Materials for K-12
• Content-based
Language Teaching with
Technology (CoBaLTT)
• CARLA – University of
Minnesota
• 20 lesson plans & 17 units for Spanish
• 10 lesson plans & 9 units for French
• 4 lesson plans & 2 units for German
• Searchable database
• Instructional modules on content-based instruction

Language Materials for K-12
• Language and
Culture Kits
• CERCLL –
University of
Arizona
• Resources & web links
• Downloadable maps
• Arabic, Chinese,
Finnish,
Japanese,
Korean,
Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish

Language Materials for Adults
 More than 170 sets of materials to teach languages from
Albanian to Yoruba:
 Arabic language instructional videos
 CAVO: A computer adaptive vocabulary assessment for
Chinese
 The Green German Project
 Hausa Online
 Indonesian for Indonesian Heritage Speakers
 Jan Ken Pon: a curriculum for the Japanese K-5 classroom
 Persian Online
 Russian Language and Culture Through Film
 Spanish Grammar Strategies Website
 Yoruba Ye Mi

Language Materials for Adults
• Pathway to Korean:
Beginning Spoken
Korean from Zero
• NEALRC- Ohio State
University
• Free downloadable beginning Korean
• Includes video and simulated class

Language Materials for Adults
 Aswaat Arabiyya /
Arabic Voices
 COERLL – University of
Texas at Austin
 Listening materials and accompanying activities
 TV sources from many countries
 Novice to Superior levels

Language Materials for Adults
• Brazilpod
• COERLL –
University of Texas at Austin
• Free Online
• Video scenarios
• Ta falado pronunciation

Language Materials for Adults
• CALPER – Penn
State
• Korean Grammar
• Korean Culture and Media
• Korean Holidays
• Korean Wave
• 17 units can be downloaded

Language Materials for Adults
 Las Voces de la Mujeres
 NFLRC – University of Hawai’i
 Video material
 20 women each from Guatemala,
Mexico, Spain, and the Dominican
Republic
 For intermediate/advanced

Materials Series for Specific
Languages
• Multimedia
Interactive Modules for Education and
Assessment (MIMEA)
• CLEAR - Michigan
State University
• Modules based on video clips showing native speakers and
NNS interacting in unscripted situations.
Interactive exercises reinforce language and cultural topics that spring from the scenarios.

Materials Series for Specific
Languages

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Common LRC Brochure
 New version coming in 2015!
 Download from LRC website
 Overview of each LRC
 Highlights of projects across LRCs in each focus area:
 Research
 Teaching and Learning Materials
 Assessment
 Teacher Development
 LCTL Initiatives
 K-12 Initiatives
 Outreach and Dissemination

Common LRC Website

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