2. What are LRCs?
The Language Resource Centers were established
through US Dept. of Education Title VI funding in 1990
Currently 15 LRCs
LRCs are mandated to “improve the capacity to teach
and learn foreign languages effectively” in the US
4. Current LRCs
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 Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
Michigan State University
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL)
University of Texas at Austin
Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC)
San Diego State University
5. Current LRCs
National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC)
George Washington University, Center for Applied Linguistics, Georgetown
University
National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
University of Hawai‘i
National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC)
University of California, Los Angeles
---------------------------------------------------------------•National Middle East Language Resource Center NMELRC)
– Brigham Young University
•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
•Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC)
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Duke University
Specific languages
and geographic areas
6. 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
7. Specific LRC Activities (cont.)
Professional development training for teachers on
diverse topics, including:
Administration and interpretation of performance
tests
Use of effective teaching strategies
Use of new technologies
Intensive summer language institutes of several
kinds, including:
Training of advanced foreign language students
Preservice and inservice language training for
teachers
9. It’s easy to search!
Links to each LRC
Database of materials and products from
all LRCs
Searchable calendar
Upcoming workshops and institutes
Conferences, symposia
http://www.nflrc.org
10. Common LRC Brochure
Download a copy 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
11. Free Resources List
Teacher Guides & Tools
Journals, Newsletters, Blogs
Resources Directories, Databases, Bibliographies & Webinars
Language Materials for K-12
Materials for Teaching Specific Languages
Materials Series for Specific Languages
Other Resources
Meet us on the Social Networks
12. Teacher Guides & Tools
More than 60 listed alphabetically in your 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
South Asian Language Workshop Materials
Task-Based Language Teaching: A Demonstration Video
Test Development Workbook and Video
Virtual Assessment Center and Virtual Item Bank *
13. Teacher Guides & Tools
The Essentials of
Language
Teaching
NCLRC @ George
Washington University,
Center for Applied
Linguistics and Georgetown
University
An online guide to essential
principles and methods of
FL instruction
14. Teacher Guides & Tools
• Social media and language learning portal
• Share online resources, tools & activities
• Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Persian, Russian
LARC – San Diego State University
15. Teacher Guides and Tools
• Self-paced online tutorials
• For world and heritage language
teachers
• Teaching strategies and language
specific issues
NHLRC – University of California,Los Angeles
16. Teacher Guides & Tools
Virtual Assessment Center
• CARLA @ University of
Minnesota
• An interactive website that
provides teachers with
background information,
step-by-step guidance and
lots of practical resources
on developing second
language assessments.
18. 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.
19. Teacher Guides & Tools
RIA tools include:
Audio dropbox
Mashups
Process writing
Podcasting
Character formation
Conversations
Jeopardy-style games
Video repository
20. Teacher Guides & Tools
NMELRC @ Brigham
Young University
A library of resources
to assist in the
professional
development of Arabic
language teachers
21. Teacher Guides & Tools
NALRC @ Indiana
University
A map that shows
which languages are
spoken in different
countries
22. Journals, Newsletters and Blogs
Twenty on your handout, including:
American Council on Immersion Education Newsletter archives
InterCom email service *
The Language Resource monthly e-newsletter
Language Learning and Technology (online peer-reviewed journal) *
Heritage Language Journal (online peer-reviewed journal)
Reading in a Foreign Language (online peer-reviewed journal)
Language Documentation and Conservation (peer-reviewed journal)
South Asian Language Blog
23. Journals, Newsletters and 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.
25. Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
• Language Learning
and Technology
• CLEAR @ Michigan
State University &
NFLRC @ University
of Hawai’i
• Online peerreviewed journal
29. Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies and Webinars
Over 30 in your handout, including
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
30. Directories, Databases,
Bibliographies, Webinars
Foreign Language
Assessment Directory
NCLRC @ George
Washington University,
Center for Applied
Linguistics and
Georgetown University
Free, searchable
database with information
on more than 200
assessments in over 90
languages other than
English. Also has tutorial.
31. Directories, Databases, Bioliographies,
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 and financial
aid for study abroad.
32. 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”
33. K-12 Language Teaching Materials
MOSAIC
Content-Based: Spanish,
French, Japanese
Geography and History
created by language specialists
and content specialists (HS & Coll)
CASLS – University
of Oregon
35. Content-based Language Teaching with
Technology (CoBaLTT) for K-12
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
CARLA – University of Minnesota
36. Language and Culture Book Kits
• Language and culture kits
for K-12 classrooms
• Resources & web links
• Downloadable maps
• Arabic, Chinese, Finnish,
Japanese, Korean,
Portuguese, Russian
Spanish
• CERCLL – University of
Arizona
37. Chinese Out of the Box
Instructional kit to develop Mandarin skills for
children age 5-10 years old
NEALRC: Nat’l East Asian LRC
38. Language Teaching MaterialsSpecific Languages 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
39. Arabic
Aswaat Arabiyya
“Arabic Voices”
Listening materials and
accompanying activities
TV sources from many countries
Novice to Superior levels
COERLL – University of Texas at Austin
40. Elementary Business Chinese
• Free downloadable CD of
interactive activities for
beginning learners of Chinese
• Multimedia elements: sound,
photographs, text
• Record & play back
CLEAR – Michigan State University
41. French
Les conversations mises à jour
Collection of conversations
Intermediate/advanced
learners
With pedagogical
suggestions
COERLL – U Texas Austin
42. Korean
• Free downloadable beginning
Korean
• Includes video and simulated
class
NEALRC – Ohio State University
47. Spanish
Las Voces de la Mujeres
Video material
20 women each from Guatemala, Mexico,
Spain, and the Dominican Republic
for intermediate/advanced
NFLRC – U Hawaii
49. Materials Series
•
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.
51. All this and more…
is just a click away at the Common LRC
Website:
http://www.nflrc.org
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Elaine Fully refereed, 3 issues a year, co-sponsored by CLEAR and NFLRC since 1997, LLT publishes research on uses of technology in support of language learning. It continues to rank in the top 15 of all journals in linguistics and education in its 5 year impact factor.
Elaine Searchable archives of research articles. Unlike most other fully refereed journals in our field, this one is FREE.
Elaine. Also fully refereed, with 2 issues a year, this scholarly international online journal publishes papers on issues in foreign language reading and literacy. It is offered by NFLRC and is FREE.
Elaine. This online journal focuses on issues in Slavic and East European linguistics and language learning. It is a product of SEELRC at Duke and is FREE.
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Elaine. Content based units for high school created with a team of unviersity and high school cntent and language teachers. Loss of funding prevents maintenance of site so some links broken.
Elaine. Example content based unit on immigration in Spanish.
Elaine. COBALTT site is fully maintained, up and running. It provides comprehensive research based training modules for teachers on nature of content based learning and teaching, with templates to support teachers’ development of their own CBI materials, and also a searchable database of detailed CBI lesson plans and units glossed to the standards for Spanish, French, German and other languages. Used for CBI teacher workshops and in support of teaching throughout the US and internationally as well.