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
Teaching Portuguese to Spanish-Speaking Learners (L1, L2 and Heritage): A Structured/ Enhanced Input Approach	Web
Description Building on the language skills of Spanish speakers (native speakers, heritage speakers, FL/SL learners of Spanish), this project focuses upon teaching Portuguese through the early introduction of reading authentic texts. This project provides a rich source of authentic materials for Portuguese teachers and learners through a website offering both classroom tasks and web-based language learning materials online. By using learning tools available on the web, the tasks are designed so as to enhance learners exposure to authentic input in the target language and draw learners' attention to form and how structural aspects of the target language (syntax, vocabulary, pragmatics, and morphology) differ from Spanish. Authentic texts, arranged in thematic units, have been compiled and placed online; it also developed a wide range of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) tasks for learners of Portuguese for this purpose. The texts and other online materials were piloted in language classes at the University of Arizona and a web discussion board was created for learners to react to the readings and reflect on the target language. A workshop was held in 2009 for grade 9-16 teachers to familiarize them with the web-based products, and presentations were given at ACTFL and the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). Resource Link
Inviting altruistic agency among students	Audio-Visual
Description Agency is normally understood as the capacity to act, to have a degree of self-determination and control over ones self and the world. Altruistic agency is being able to act so that others might themselves have more agency and better chances to be self-determined even though it might mean we have less. While teachers seem to have such altruistic agency to varying degrees (as they attempt to agentize their students with knowledge and understandings that can change the world), it can also be stimulated in students themselves in such a way that they help each other learn more effectively. I will be looking at activities to encourage students to be more helpful to each other so they can learn in a more dynamic environment and be resources for each other in many ways. I will also look at external media and how it might also be used to create more altruistic agency. Angeles Arrien said, I think the human spirit always wants to make a contribution. And I dont think there are enough invitations (Briskin et al, 2009:156). So how can our classes and teaching be more invitational? Resource Link
The role of consciousness in second language learning	Audio-Visual
Description Richard Schmidt presents on the role of consciousness in second language learning at the 1988 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) held in at the University of Hawaii. Resource Link
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