The document provides information about Language Resource Centers (LRCs) in the United States. It begins by explaining that LRCs were established by the US Department of Education to improve foreign language teaching and learning. There are currently 15 LRCs located at various universities across the country. The document then lists each LRC and their specific language focus areas or geographic regions. It provides examples of free resources produced by the LRCs, including teacher guides, journals/newsletters, materials for K-12 language teaching, and materials for specific languages. In summary, the document outlines the mission and activities of LRCs in producing free resources to support foreign language education in the US.

1. Language Resource
Centers
Free Resources from the LRCs
Meg Malone, CAL, NCLRC
Carl Blyth, COERLL
Joy Campbell, CLEAR
Elaine Tarone, CARLA

2. What are LRCs?
The Language Resource Centers were established
through US Dept. of Education Title VI funding in 1990
 Currently 15 LRCs
LRCs are mandated to “improve the capacity to teach
and learn foreign languages effectively” in the US

3. Locations of the LRCs

4. Current LRCs
 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 Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
 Michigan State University
 Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL)
 University of Texas at Austin
 Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC)
 San Diego State University

5. Current LRCs
 National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC)
 George Washington University, Center for Applied Linguistics, Georgetown
University
 National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
 University of Hawai‘i
 National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC)
 University of California, Los Angeles
---------------------------------------------------------------•National Middle East Language Resource Center NMELRC)
– Brigham Young University
•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
•Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC)
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Duke University
Specific languages
and geographic areas

6. 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

7. Specific LRC Activities (cont.)
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

8. Common LRC Website

9. It’s 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

10. Common LRC Brochure
Download a copy from LRC website
 Overview of each LRC
 Highlights of projects across LRCs in
each focus area:
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Research
Teaching and Learning Materials
Assessment
Teacher Development
LCTL Initiatives
K-12 Initiatives
Outreach and Dissemination

11. Free Resources List
 Teacher Guides & Tools
 Journals, Newsletters, Blogs
 Resources Directories, Databases, Bibliographies & Webinars
 Language Materials for K-12
 Materials for Teaching Specific Languages
 Materials Series for Specific Languages
 Other Resources
 Meet us on the Social Networks

12. Teacher Guides & Tools
 More than 60 listed alphabetically in your handout, including:
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Alphabet Charts for Central Asian Languages
Celebrating the World’s Languages: A Guide to Creating a World Languages Day Event
Content-based Language Instruction with Technology (CoBaLTT)
Corpus Portal
Culture Café and Language Lounge
Elementary Immersion Learning Strategies Resource Guide
The Essentials of Language Teaching *
LCTL Instructional Resources
PEP (Proficiency, Efficiency, Planning) Tool
Portfolio Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom
Proficiency-Oriented Instruction: A Handbook for Teachers
Rich Internet Applications *
Sailing the 5 Cs with Learning Strategies
South Asian Language Workshop Materials
Task-Based Language Teaching: A Demonstration Video
Test Development Workbook and Video
Virtual Assessment Center and Virtual Item Bank *

13. Teacher Guides & Tools
The Essentials of
Language
Teaching
NCLRC @ George
Washington University,
Center for Applied
Linguistics and Georgetown
University
An online guide to essential
principles and methods of
FL instruction

14. Teacher Guides & Tools
• Social media and language learning portal
• Share online resources, tools & activities
• Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Persian, Russian
LARC – San Diego State University

15. Teacher Guides and Tools
• Self-paced online tutorials
• For world and heritage language
teachers
• Teaching strategies and language
specific issues
NHLRC – University of California,Los Angeles

16. 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.

17. Teacher Guides & Tools

18. 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.

19. Teacher Guides & Tools
RIA tools include:
 Audio dropbox
 Mashups
 Process writing
 Podcasting
 Character formation
 Conversations
 Jeopardy-style games
 Video repository

20. Teacher Guides & Tools
NMELRC @ Brigham
Young University
 A library of resources
to assist in the
professional
development of Arabic
language teachers

21. Teacher Guides & Tools
NALRC @ Indiana
University
 A map that shows
which languages are
spoken in different
countries

22. Journals, Newsletters and Blogs
Twenty on your handout, including:
 American Council on Immersion Education Newsletter archives
 InterCom email service *
 The Language Resource monthly e-newsletter
 Language Learning and Technology (online peer-reviewed journal) *
 Heritage Language Journal (online peer-reviewed journal)
 Reading in a Foreign Language (online peer-reviewed journal)
 Language Documentation and Conservation (peer-reviewed journal)
 South Asian Language Blog

23. Journals, Newsletters and 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.

24. Journals, Newsletters & Blogs

25. Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
• Language Learning
and Technology
• CLEAR @ Michigan
State University &
NFLRC @ University
of Hawai’i
• Online peerreviewed journal

26. Journals, Newsletters & Blogs

27. Journals, Newsletters & Blogs
Reading in a
Foreign Language
•NFLRC @Hawaii

28. Journals, Newsletters and Blogs
SEELRC – Duke

29. Directories of Resources, Databases,
Bibliographies and Webinars
Over 30 in your handout, including
 Advanced Language Proficiency Database
 A Focus on SpinTX – Open Video Archive for Language
Learning
 African Language Program Inventory List
 Foreign Language Assessment Directory and Tutorial *
 Human Rights in Latin America Research Resources
 LCTL Database *
 Orient Yourself: Online Catalog of Study Abroad
Opportunities in East Asia *
 Performance and Portfolio Assessment: Extended
Annotated Bibliography

30. Directories, Databases,
Bibliographies, Webinars
Foreign Language
Assessment Directory
NCLRC @ George
Washington University,
Center for Applied
Linguistics and
Georgetown University
Free, searchable
database with information
on more than 200
assessments in over 90
languages other than
English. Also has tutorial.

31. Directories, Databases, Bioliographies,
Webinars
Orient Yourself: Catalog
of Study Abroad
Opportunities in East
Asia
NEALRC @ Ohio State
University
For American students
to get information on
 East Asian American
institutes that offer study
abroad programs in East
Asia
 Scholarships and financial
aid for study abroad.

32. Language Materials for K-12
 A National Virtual Language Learning Lab (ANVILL)
 Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms
(French, German, Spanish)
 MOSAIC Content-based lessons tied to national standards
(French, Spanish and Japanese) *
 Language and Culture Book Kits
 Video and Website for “Chinese Out of the Box”

33. K-12 Language Teaching Materials
MOSAIC
Content-Based: Spanish,
French, Japanese
Geography and History
created by language specialists
and content specialists (HS & Coll)
CASLS – University
of Oregon

34. MOSAIC (cont.)

35. Content-based Language Teaching with
Technology (CoBaLTT) for K-12
20 lesson plans & 17 units
for Spanish
10 lesson plans & 9 units
for French
4 lesson plans & 2 units
for German
Searchable database
+ instructional modules
on content-based
instruction
CARLA – University of Minnesota

36. Language and Culture Book Kits
• Language and culture kits
for K-12 classrooms
• Resources & web links
• Downloadable maps
• Arabic, Chinese, Finnish,
Japanese, Korean,
Portuguese, Russian
Spanish
• CERCLL – University of
Arizona

37. Chinese Out of the Box
Instructional kit to develop Mandarin skills for
children age 5-10 years old
NEALRC: Nat’l East Asian LRC

38. Language Teaching MaterialsSpecific Languages for Adults
More than 170 sets of materials to teach languages from
Albanian to Yoruba:
 Arabic language instructional videos
 CAVO: A computer adaptive vocabulary assessment for
Chinese
 The Green German Project
 Hausa Online
 Indonesian for Indonesian Heritage Speakers
 Jan Ken Pon: a curriculum for the Japanese K-5 classroom
 Persian Online
 Russian Language and Culture Through Film
 Spanish Grammar Strategies Website
 Yoruba Ye Mi

39. Arabic
Aswaat Arabiyya
“Arabic Voices”
 Listening materials and
accompanying activities
 TV sources from many countries
 Novice to Superior levels
COERLL – University of Texas at Austin

40. Elementary Business Chinese
• Free downloadable CD of
interactive activities for
beginning learners of Chinese
• Multimedia elements: sound,
photographs, text
• Record & play back
CLEAR – Michigan State University

41. French
Les conversations mises à jour
 Collection of conversations
 Intermediate/advanced
learners
 With pedagogical
suggestions
COERLL – U Texas Austin

42. Korean
• Free downloadable beginning
Korean
• Includes video and simulated
class
NEALRC – Ohio State University

43. Korean
Korean Grammar
Korean Culture and Media
Korean Holidays
Korean Wave
17 units
download
CALPER – Penn State

44. Japanese
Junko Mori, Project Director
CALPER – Penn State
ONLINE

45. Portuguese
Free Online
• Video scenarios
• Ta falado
pronunciation
COERLL – University of Texas at Austin

46. Russian
Online webcasts
NCLRC

47. Spanish
Las Voces de la Mujeres
 Video material
 20 women each from Guatemala, Mexico,
Spain, and the Dominican Republic
 for intermediate/advanced
NFLRC – U Hawaii

48. Spanish
Los Desaparecidos
Website
Interviews and related
literature from
Argentina’s “The
Disappeared”
LARC – San Diego State University

49. Materials Series
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Multimedia
Interactive Modules
for Education and
Assessment
(MIMEA)
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CLEAR @ Michigan
State University
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Modules based on
video clips showing
native speakers and
NNS interacting in
unscripted situations.
Interactive exercises
reinforce language
and cultural topics
that spring from the
scenarios.

50. Materials for Specific
Languages

51. All this and more…
is just a click away at the Common LRC
Website:
http://www.nflrc.org