Learn about free standards-based teaching resources from the National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's).

1. ACTFL  San Diego, CA  November 20, 2015
Meg Malone, AERLC
Carl Blyth, COERLL
Joy Campbell, CLEAR
Elaine Tarone, CARLA
Free Standards-Based
Teaching Resources
from the LRCs

2. What are the LRCs?
The Language Resource Centers were established
through US Dept. of Education Title VI funding in 1990
 Currently 16 LRCs
 Just began Year 2 of the 2014-18 funding cycle
LRCs are mandated to “improve the capacity to teach
and learn foreign languages effectively” in the US

3. Where are the LRCs?
SEELRC
AELRC
CILC
CALPER
CLEAR
CARLA
CASLS
NFLRC
COERLL
CERCLL
NRCAL
NHLRC
CULTR
NEALRC
CeLCAR
NALRC

4. Current LRCs (‘general’ focus)
 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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5. Current LRCs (‘general’ focus)
 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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6. Current LRCs (regional focus)
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

7. 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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8. Specific LRC Activities
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. Free Resources List
Teacher Guides & Tools
Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
Directories: Resources, Databases, Bibliogs. & Webinars
Language Materials for K-12
Language Materials for Adults
Materials Series for Specific Languages
Other Resources

10. Teacher Guides & Tools
More than 60 listed in online handout, including:
 Celebrating the World’s Languages: A Guide to Creating a
World Languages Day Event
 CLASS Professional Standards for K-12 Chinese Language
Teachers
 Content-based Language Instruction with Technology
(CoBaLTT)
 Corpus Portal
 Heritage Language Assessment Annotated Bibliography
 LCTL Instructional Resources
 Language Program Evaluation ‘How-To’ Resources
 Learner Language: Tools for teachers
 PEP (Proficiency, Efficiency, Planning) Tool
 Rich Internet Applications
 SpinTX – Open Video Archive for Language Learning

11. 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.

12. Teacher Guides & Tools
• Learner Language: Tools for
teachers
• CARLA – University of
Minnesota
• Self-paced multimedia
modules showing language
teachers how to analyze
learner language
• Learner language samples in
Chinese,Farsi, Japanese,
Korean, and Spanish (new!)

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

14. Teacher Guides & Tools
SpinTX Video Archive
COERLL – University of Texas,
Austin
Free authentic Spanish videos
for language learning
Web interface to search
hundreds of short video clips
from the Spanish in Texas
archive
All materials can be freely
used, copied & distributed
under Creative Commons
license

15. Teacher Guides & Tools
Interactive Reference
Grammars
SEELRC – Duke University
Free set of peer-reviewed
online reference grammars for
advanced-level language users
Each grammar contains
background information about
the language and its speakers

16. Teacher Guides & Tools
Language Program
Evaluation ‘How-To’
Resources
• AELRC – Georgetown
University & CAL
• Selected bibliography
of ‘how-to’ books and
free online resources
for language program
evaluation

17. 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. Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
Sixteen (16) on online handout, including:
 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)
 Glossos (online peer-reviewed journal)
 South Asian Language Blog
 CARLAeidoscope (online weekly e-newsletter)

19. Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
• Language Learning &
Technology
• CLEAR - Michigan State
University and NFLRC -
University of Hawaii
• Online peer-reviewed
journal
Since 2007, ranked in
top 20 linguistics and
education journals by
Thomson Reuters

20. 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

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

22. Resource Directories, Databases,
Bibliographies & Webinars
Search our website to find these and others!
 African Language Program Inventory List
 Evaluation and SLOA Bibliography
 Focus on SpinTX –An Open Video Archive for Language
Learning
 Foreign Language Assessment Directory (FLAD) & Tutorial
 Language Advocacy
 Orient Yourself: Online Catalog of Study Abroad
Opportunities in East Asia
 Resources for Struggling Immersion Learners
 Slavic and Eurasian Languages Webliographies

23. Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies & Webinars
Place-Based Programs
Database (PEBLL)
CASLS – University of
Oregon
A curated database of
place-based experiences
relevant to language
learning
Tagged by language, level,
and content area

24. Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies & Webinars
Foreign Language Assessment
Directory
AELRC - Georgetown University
and CAL
Free, searchable database with
information on 197 FL tests,
updated biennially
Searchable by language, grade
level, proviency, skill level
Tests available (for cost) to
public

25. Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies & Webinars
Corpus Portal
CALPER - Penn State
University
Gateway to resources
for teachers interested
in working with corpus
data in the FL
classroom

26. Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies & Webinars
Project-Based Language
Learning (PBLL)
NFLRC – University of
Hawaii
Free online symposium for
teachers, Jan 12-15, 2016
See NFLRC flier in tote bag
for more information

27. Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies & Webinars
Celebrating the World’s
Languages: Guide to
Creating a World
Languages Day Event
CLEAR – Michigan State
University
Free 160-page manual on
how to run a World
Languages Day at an
institution of higher
education

28. Language Materials for K-12
 A National Virtual Language Learning Lab (ANVILL)
 Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms
(French, German, Spanish)
 Jan Ken Pon: Standards-based Curriculum for K-5
 MOSAIC Content-based lessons tied to national standards
(French, Spanish and Japanese)
 Standards-Based Thematic Units

29. • 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

30. Language Materials for K-12
• Business Language
Packets for High School
Classrooms: French,
German, Spanish
• CLEAR – Michigan State
• Materials for high school
students to learn about
business language and
practices in their FL

31. 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

32. Language Materials for Adults
More than 170 entries of materials to help teach
languages from Albanian to Yoruba:
 Albanian-English Dictionary
 CAVO: A computer adaptive vocabulary assessment for
Chinese
 Green German Project
 Hausa Online
 Learning through Listening: Advanced Japanese
 Persian Online Language Resources
 Reference Grammars for Slavic & E. European Languages
 Russian Language and Culture Through Film
 Spanish Grammar Strategies Website
 Yoruba Ye Mi

33. Language Materials for Adults
• Russian Culture &
Language Through Film
• SEELRC- Duke University
• Free web-based
instructional tool with
clips from 22
contemporary Russian
films
• Includes transcripts,
built-in glossary, &
assessment questions

34. Language Materials for Adults
• Learning Through
Listening: Advanced
Japanese
• CALPER- Penn State
University
• Free downloadable
video clips and
materials to learn
lexicon, structure &
discourse of spoken
Japanese

35. 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

36. Language Materials for Adults
 E-book for teachers of
heritage Arabic students
 CILC – City University of
New York
 Classroom materials for
teaching Arabic to
heritage speakers of
Arabic
 Piloted in 4-year and
community colleges
 Coming soon! (Spring
2017)

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

38. Language Materials for Adults
• Korean Holidays &
Korean Wave
• CALPER – Penn State
• Guided activities
explore culture
through inquiry,
observation, analysis
• 10 free units can be
downloaded

39. Find out More!
The Language Resource Centers have a robust Web
and social media presence:
•Common LRC website
•Individual LRC websites
•Facebook
•Twitter

40. Common LRC Brochure – New!!!
At the LRC Pavilion: Booths 1844-53
Download from LRC website
Overview of each LRC
Highlights of projects across 16 LRCs
in each focus area:
 Research
 Teaching and Learning Materials
 Assessment
 Teacher Development
 LCTL Initiatives
 K-12 Initiatives
 Outreach and Dissemination

41. Common LRC Website

42. 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

43. Functionality
Demonstration of using the site to search for resources!

44. Come and See Us!
Come to the Exhibit Hall to learn
more and see our resources first hand!
LRC Pavilion in Exhibit Hall
Booths 1844-1853
AELRC – Meg Malone
COERLL – Carl Blyth
CLEAR – Joy Campbell
CARLA – Elaine Tarone