| Body | CASLS is one of sixteen Language Resource Centers (LRC’s) funded through Title VI of the Higher Education Act. Here is a sampling of research-informed resources for language practitioners from some of the LRC’s.
Classroom materials:
- Games2Teach: CASLS’ set of curricular activities for implementing game-based language learning into the classroom.
- Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE): The playful, creative moments in everyday language use are an opportunity for fostering students’ ability to communicate and express themselves in their new language. This project, co-sponsored by CERCLL and COERLL creates an archive of authentic texts in different languages accompanied by lessons, which teachers can access, adapt, and use, along with supporting professional development resources.
- Project-based Language Learning resources from NFLRC
- Corpus Portal: a gateway to information and tools for teachers interested in exploring ways in which natural language (compiled into a corpus) can be used in language teaching and learning and assessment. Includes teacher narratives, worksheets for vocabulary learning, a corpus tutorial, and an online tool where teachers can upload student texts and analyze them for particular language features.
- Online language classes, textbooks, and materials for Central Asian languages from CeLCAR.
Assessment:
- LinguaFolio Online: an e-portfolio evaluation tool organized around the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements that allows students to collect evidence demonstrating their communicative abilities in a world language.
- Virtual Assessment Center: The Virtual Assessment Center (VAC) is a series of web-based learning modules that provides teachers with background information, step-by-step guidance, and practical resources for developing proficiency-based second language assessments for the classroom.
- Spanish Proficiency Training Website and Learner Corpus: The purpose of these materials is to help public school teachers of Spanish in their assessment of learners’ levels of proficiency. The website presents information on proficiency levels to help the viewer develop a greater awareness of differences in learner language.
Professional Development:
- CARLA Summer Institutes: CARLA has provided high-quality professional development for language teachers for over 20 years. Launched in 1996, this internationally known program reflects CARLA's commitment to link research and theory with practical applications for the classroom. Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory-building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking opportunities.
- NHLRC Professional Development Workshops on Heritage Language Instruction for K-16 instructors: Drs. Kagan and Carreira have developed multiple workshops on heritage language instruction. NHLRC faculty will travel to sites, hosts workshops at UCLA and offers online workshops.
- COERLL’s Foreign Language Teaching Methods professional development modules for foreign language teachers: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pragmatics, Culture, The Language Learner, Technology, Classroom Management, and Assessment.
Research and Advocacy:
- NHLRC Heritage Language Journal: an online blind-refereed journal dedicated to the issues underlying the teaching and learning of heritage languages.
- NFLRC's Reading in a Foreign Language: A refereed international online journal of issues in foreign language reading and literacy.
- CILC’s Language at the Community College Nexus: information on the teaching and learning of languages at Community Colleges.
- CALPER’s Language Advocacy Site: teachers can find materials for advocating for language learning with links to advocacy programs, op-ed pieces, articles, press releases, brochures, infographics, etc.
- CLEAR and NFLRC's Language Learning & Technology: a refereed journal on issues related to technology and language education, published online three times a year.
You can learn more about each LRC at http://www.nflrc.org/index.php.
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