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
Texas German Dialect Project	Web
Description The Texas German Dialect Project (TGDP) is an umbrella organization for carrying out research in representative Texas German speech communities in central Texas. One of the primary goals of the TGDP is to preserve the Texas German dialect as it reflects the rich cultural and linguistic traditions of its residents. To this end, members of the TGDP conduct interviews with residents of representative Texas German speech communities. Portions of these interviews are digitized and subsequently stored for preservation in the Texas German Dialect Archive (TGDA). The TGDA allows its users to listen to portions of interviews in combination with their transcriptions and translations. As more and more interviews are conducted and edited, they will be added to the TGDA. Resource Link
Brazilians Working with Americans	Web
Description The "Brazilians Working with Americans: Cultural Case Studies" consists of 10 brief case studies that illustrate some of the challenges that executives face when working together. The 10 cases are based on real stories from Brazilian executives who work with North Americans in Brazil. Each case study is accompanied by video clips of 3 American and 3 Brazilian executives who offer personal observations about the cases. In all there are 60 video clips from 17 executives. The comments represent the executives' personal opinions about the cultural aspects of the case studies. All materials in the "Brazilians Working with Americans: Cultural Case Studies" are provided in both English and Portuguese. That is to say, the case studies are provided in both languages. The American executives make their comments in English (with Portuguese translation) and all of the Brazilian executives make their comments in Portuguese (with English translation). Resource Link
Falando de Negócios	Web
Description Esses materiais contêm o vídeo e a transcrição escrita de entrevistas com 27 brasileiros que descrevem vários tópicos relacionados aos negócios. As entrevistas foram preparadas para oferecer uma oportunidade de estudar os termos e o vocabulário do português comercial. O objetivo principal é justamente isso: ensinar o vocabulário comercial para os alunos que têm interesse em negócios e que estão aprendendo a língua portuguesa. Assim, o objetivo é mais do lado lingüístico, mas as entrevistas também contêm muita informação útil sobre os negócios. As entrevistas são apropriadas para os alunos que já falam um nível intermediário ou avançado. Nós usamos esses materiais em preparação para os alunos americanos que vão estudar ou trabalhar no Brasil. Resource Link
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