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
Manual for the Vietnamese elicited imitation test (manual plus 2 audio CDs)	Print
Description Research on second languages especially English, Spanish, and Japanese demonstrates that elicited imitation can be a reliable and valid measure of general competence, while also possibly serving as an instrument for linguistically-oriented second language acquisition research. This test of Vietnamese consists of two parallel forms, each with forty-eight sentences of standard Northern Vietnamese. Even though these represent normal statements and expressions, some of them may be difficult to recall in their entirety. Performance on the test is scored on a scale of accuracy for each item. Resource Link
Reading in a Foreign Language: A refereed online journal of issues in foreign language reading and literacy	Web
Description Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) is a refereed online journal, jointly sponsored by the University of Hawai`i NFLRC and the Department of Second Language Studies. RFL serves as an excellent source for the latest developments in the field, both theoretical and pedagogic, including improving standards for foreign language reading. Resource Link
An investigation of second language task-based performance assessments	Print
Description Drawing on the second language performance assessment item specifications created in Norris, Brown, Hudson, and Yoshioka (1998), this volume describes the creation of actual performance assessment instruments and their validation. After briefly reviewing the background to the project, the book explains the test and rating scale development processes and the administration of the resulting seven-task tests to 60 students from the University of Hawaii (30 on Form P and 30 on Form Q) and 30 Kanda University of International Studies (on Form J). The results based on task-dependent, task-independent, and self-rating scales are examined in terms of descriptive statistics, multi-faceted Rasch model analyses, reliability estimates, and correlational analyses. These results are discussed at length in terms of the effects of test revision, and in terms of comparisons among the task-dependent, task-independent, and self-rating scales especially with regard to their reliability and validity. Resource Link
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Upcoming Events
Sep 2022 12 - 14 Hawaii		Call for Papers
Sep 2022 12 - 14 Hawaii	2022 Pragmatics & Language Learning Conference The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of Oregon are pleased to announce the 2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference (PLL 2022) which will take place online on September 12-14, 2022. The conference main theme will be Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World, but we welcome a broad range of topics in pragmatics, discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in their relation to second and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We hope this conference brings together scholars and educators from all around the world who are interested in discussing both established and innovative approaches to teaching and learning pragmatics to strengthen our understanding of principles and practices in PLL and push the field to new and exciting directions in research and practice. Plenary talks will be live and we have tried to schedule them so that a large part of our audience can access at least half of them. The rest of the presentations will be simulive (pre-recorded 20 minute presentation with live interaction by the presenters) or poster sessions (5-7 minute-pre-recorded presentation within Zoom breakout rooms for interaction). CALL FOR PROPOSALS The conference main theme will be Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World, but we welcome a broad range of topics in pragmatics, discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in their relation to second and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. ONLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: DEADLINE: March 1, 2022 via EasyChair Visit our website [ https://bit.ly/PLL2022 ] for more information and instruction on how to prepare your abstract proposal. Event Link
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