Teaching Resources

FL Teach - The Foreign Language Teachers Forum is an integrated service of FL teachers. This resource includes a WWW. site, an email LISTSERV Academic Discussion List, list archives and the FL News Server at the State University of New York at Cortland.

The Foreign Language Resource Centers - The common goal of the Language Resource Centers (LRCs) is to promote the learning and teaching of foreign languages in the United States. The US Department of Education established the first LRCs at US universities in 1990 in response to the growing national need for expertise and competence in foreign languages. This site lists all of the Centers and includes a search function which will allow you to look for specific materials related to the teaching of foreign languages.

Links to the specific Foreign Language Resource Centers

CALPER - Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research, Pennsylvania State University.

CARLA - Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota.

CASLS - Center for Applied Second Language Studies, University of Oregon

CERCLL - Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy, University of Arizona.

CeLCAR - Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region, Indiana University

CLEAR - Center for Language Education and Research, Michigan State University.

LARC - Language Acquistion Resource, San Diego State University

NALRC - National African Language Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

NCLRC - National Capital Language Resource Center, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Center for Applied Linguistics.

NEALRC - National East Asian Languages Resource Center, Ohio State University

NFLRC - National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai'i

NHLRC - National Heritage Language Resource Center, University of California, Los Angeles, UC consortium for Language Learning & Teaching

NK-12FLRC - National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, Iowa State University

NMELRC - National Middle East Language Resource Center, Brigham Young University

SALRC - South Asian Language Resource Center, University of Chicago

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The NCLRC March Newsletter has a great article for those who want to integrate Technology into their FL classes.  Check out - Getting More From What You Have - Digital Storytelling.

The Spring Issue of CLEAR News has an informative article about Planning a Language Festival.  It is filled with great information!   Don't miss it!

Help your high school and college students learn French, Japanese, and Spanish through engaging social sciences topics. MOSAIC units, which are free and customizable, help create a more proficiency-oriented classroom

If you haven't seen this Social Media Video (shown at the General Operning Session of ACTFL '09) you are really missing a great presentation detailing social media facts and figures.  Definitely something to think about!

Don't miss the National K-12 Foreign Language Survey.  Read the Executive Summary and learn how the data can be used to help our country increase and improve language teaching over the next decade.

Attracting and Holding the Attention of Those Millenial Digital Natives is a great article from the NFLRC Resource

QuizBreak! is a highly flexible program that allows teachers to create fun Jeopardy©-like games for the foreign language class.  It's free on the CLEAR website. 

Have you seen the Spanish Strategies Website developed by two undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin and one of the many resources offered at CARLA.

CLEAR News, Fall 2009 has an interesting article about Teaching Idioms. 

Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon - Looking for some authentic images for language learning?  Check out CAPL. 

Interested in learning about Social Media tools  such as blogging and YouTube in the foreign language classroom?   Then check out the Social Media Webinars at LARC (Language Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State University.

Why not have your students write a Cinquain during the next few weeks. Get info here!

Interested in improving your skills in assessment? Check out the Virtual Assessment Center at CARLA.

Culture Club has been one of my favorite resources since it was initiated. Don't miss it!!