Envisioning PBLL

Learn the fundamentals of project-based language learning (PBLL).

 

Naiyi Xie Fincham

Assistant Faculty Specialist in Instructional Design

Second Language Research and Practice

Introducing our new journal! Grounded in the discipline of Applied Linguistics, the SLRP journal aims to disseminate scholarship on topics relevant to postsecondary language education and language program direction

Online Language Pedagogy

Check out our many resources for online language teaching

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Language Learning & Technology

Rated in top 20 journals both in linguistics and education by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports since 2007, LLT...

High-Leverage Teaching Practices

Expand your knowledge of HLTPs guided by experienced professionals in the field.

Reading in a Foreign Language

Literacy and reading are the focus of Reading in a Foreign Language, a refereed international online journal published twice y...

Interested in Blended Learning?

Explore the potential of blended learning

Tim Murphey tips (YouTube playlist)

Tim Murphey’s information is invaluable and his enthusiasm infectious. Access samples of Dr. Tim Murphey lectures on inventive ways to teach any language.

Teacher Portfolio & Preparation Series (TiPPS)

TiPPS is designed to help future language educators (specifically graduate students in language departments at UHM) prepare for the job m...

Cultura-inspired intercultural exchanges: Focus on Asian and Pacific ...

Although many online intercultural exchanges have been conducted based on the groundbreaking Cultura model, most to date have been between and among European...

Aozora: Intermediate-advanced Japanese communication (second edition)

Develops intermediate students’ oral and written communicative skills and provides insights into Japanese society and culture...

NFLRC Resources on ScholarSpace

NFLRC maintains a large searchable archive of free language research and teaching materials on ScholarSpace...

New perspectives on Japanese language learning, linguistics, and ...

Covers several important topics on teaching and learning spoken and written Japanese and culture in and beyond classroom settings, but also includes research...

Teaching Russian reading in a distance classroom: A ...

In the spring of 1997, the author team-taught a Russian Reading course at the UH via a distance classroom. A brief report on the course is found at this site.

Introducing action research into post-secondary foreign language teacher ...

The teaching of foreign languages at the post-secondary level in the USA increasingly reflects an interest in developing communicative proficiency, but...

Explicit and incidental instruction and learner awareness

Explicit instruction can facilitate learner awareness of the surface features of a language, but does not guarantee it. Similarly, learne...

Foreign languages on ITV

The use of interactive television (ITV) is on the rise in the foreign language teaching field, bringing previously unavailable educationa...

Explicit instruction and JFL learners' use of interactional ...

Study of the explicit instruction of Japanese discourse markers to English-speaking, intermediate learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language. It was found...

Community language resources: A handbook for teachers

The aim of the project is to capitalize on community language resources in developing programs and products to improve foreign language education. Approache ...

2000 Summer Institute evaluation: Performance-based Chinese language instruction

Evaluation of the 2000 NFLRC Summer Institute, Performance-Based Chinese Language Instruction.

2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Developing web-based foreign language ...

Evaluation of the 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute, Developing Web-Based Foreign Language Learning Environments.

2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Web-based workshops for advanced ...

Evaluation of the 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute, Web-Based Workshops for Advanced Reading & Writing Development & Maintenance.

2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Korean pedagogy workshop: Task-based ...

Evaluation of the 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute, Korean Pedagogy Workshop: Task-Based Language Teaching.

2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Samoan pedagogy institute

Evaluation of the 2002 NFLRC Summer Institute, Ia Faalautele Lau Gagana Samoan Pedagogy Institute.

2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Heritage learners and national ...

Evaluation of the 2000 NFLRC Summer Institute, Heritage Learners and National Language Needs.

2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Web-based workshops for advanced ...

Evaluation of the 2002 NFLRC Summer Institute, Web-Based Workshops for Advanced Reading & Writing Development & Maintenance .

2003 NFLRC summer institute for professional development: Southeast ...

Report on a series of site visits and faculty development workshops at US-supported advanced study abroad programs in Southeast Asia. Workshops for advanced...

2003 NFLRC summer institute: Corpus Linguistics for Korean ...

Evaluation of the 2003 NFLRC summer institute, Corpus Linguistics for Korean Language Learning and Teaching.

2004 NFLRC/COTSEAL Workshop: New Visions for Southeast Asian ...

Evaluation of the 2004 NFLRC/COTSEAL Workshop, New Visions for Southeast Asian Language Teaching.

2004 NFLRC conference evaluation: FAGASA

Full title: Final report on the 2004 13th annual conference of the Association for the Teaching of the Samoan Language in Aotearoa (FAGA...

2004 NFLRC conference: Cultural Diversity & Language Education

Final report on the 2004 NFLRC Cultural Diversity & Language Education Conference co-sponsored by the University of Hawai`i Center for Se...

2004 selected papers from the NFLRC symposium: Distance ...

These eight papers were presented at the Distance Education, Distributed Learning, and Language Instruction Symposium held July 27-30, 2...

Mandarin Chinese: Four-year instructional goals, curriculum outline, and ...

This curriculum outline includes student profiles, objectives, and an instructional outline for a Chinese language core program which uti...

2007 Second International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching: ...

2009 NFLRC Summer Institute For Non-native Teachers of ...

Evaluation of the 2009 NFLRC Summer Institute For Non-native Teachers of Chinese held at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, from June 22 to July 3.

2009 NFLRC summer institute: Web-based two-week intensive language ...

This document reports on, and evaluates the 2009 NFLRC summer institute: Web-based two-week intensive language course for non-native teac...

Using surveys for understanding and improving foreign language ...

The goal of this guide is to help language educators develop surveys that produce useful information for evaluation in language programs....

New technologies and language learning: Cases in the ...

In recent years, the National Security Education Program (NSEP) has supported an increasing number of programs for teaching languages usi...

Task-Based Language Teaching: A demonstration module

This Research Note illustrates Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) as developed by Michael H. Long. The set consists of a demonstration v...

Mark Warschauer

Co-Editor, Language Learning & Technology Journal

Stephen Tschudi (Fleming)

Specialist in Technology for Language Education

Carol Chapelle

NFLRC Advisory Board Member

Cynthia Ning

NFLRC Project Director

Richard Day

Co-Editor, Reading in a Foreign Language Journal

Richard Schmidt

NFLRC Senior Consultant

David Hiple

NFLRC Senior Consultant

Our Kuleana

Celebrating 25 years in 2015, we dedicate ourselves to improving the learning and teaching of all languages...

Virtual connections: Online activities and projects for networking ...

Computer networking has created dramatic new possibilities for connecting language learners in a single classroom or across the globe. Th...

Linguistics and language teaching: Proceedings of the sixth ...

This volume contains 18 articles revolving around linguistic issues, sociolinguistics, and language teaching and learning.

Telecollaboration in foreign language learning: Proceedings of the ...

A sampling of presentations on electronic networking for foreign language teaching and research, including electronic discussion and conferencing, internatio...

New trends and issues in teaching Japanese language ...

In recent years, Japanese has become the fourth most commonly taught foreign language at the college level in the United States. As the n...

Foreign language teaching & language minority education

This volume seeks to examine the potential for building relationships among foreign language, bilingual, and ESL programs towards fosteri...

A communicative framework for introductory Japanese language curricula

In recent years the number of schools offering Japanese nationwide has increased dramatically. Because of the tremendous popularity of Ja...

Corpus linguistics for Korean language learning and teaching

Dramatic advances in personal-computer technology have given language teachers access to vast quantities of machine-readable text, which ...

Bridging gaps with technology in the ITV classroom

This short presentation interpolates discussion of the implementation of desirable pedagogical principles in the interactive television-based foreign language..

Integration of national standards in a Japanese language ...

This 20-minute video plus guidebook familiarizes pre-service and in-service teachers of Japanese with the "five C" goals of the Japanese ...

LSEV: Learner self-evaluated videos

Regularly videotaping students’ conversations for them to analyze gives holistic data from which the students can learn and improve. LSE...

Shadowing and summarizing

Shadowing and summarizing are deceptively simple tasks that can greatly enhance learning. This video shows an actual class going through ...

NPRM – Near Peer Role Modeling

Here's a sample. For more, visit our Tim Murphey Tips playlist."Near peer role models" are people near to us in possibly several ways, ...

Group dynamics in the language classroom

Here's a sample. For more, visit our Tim Murphey Tips playlist.Group dynamics is one of the most, if not the most, important areas for...

Juggling with language learning theories

Learning to juggle has become popular among corporate training programs as it shows participants how to appreciate mistakes and use "Intelligent Fast Failure...

Hoping and language learning

To what degree do our methods provide productive pathways and confidence to aid our language learners? During this sixth annual presentat...

Young learner development with co-learning adults

If we just depend on occasional lessons in schools, we are not realizing the potential of our everyday learning environments for allowing...

Agency and student voice

In this video, Dr. Murphey explains how listening to what students say works and doesn't work in their own second-language education can ...

Inviting altruistic agency among students

Agency is normally understood as the capacity to act, to have a degree of self-determination and control over one’s self and the world. Altruistic agency is...

Present Communities of Imagination (PCOIz)

Using group dynamics as an umbrella term for overlapping literatures on community, cooperative, and collaborative practices, I introduce ...

Ideal Classmates and Reciprocal Idealizing

Tim Murphey describes an easy action research/activity done in the spring of 2012 with 488 students in four Tokyo area Japanese universities. It had a big...

Integrating language and content instruction

Students who participate in immersion programs not only become proficient in the immersion language, they also achieve academically...

Thai Language and Culture for Beginners (Book 1+CD+DVD)

Auxiliary materials no longer available through UH Press are now available for free download on ScholarSpace. Thai Language and Culture f...

Proceedings 2014: Selected papers from the eighteenth college-wide ...

In a Word

Bridget Beaver

Curriculum Development Project

Developing Courses in Languages for Specific Purposes

Language for Specific Purposes courses provide an invaluable alternative or supplement to general language courses...

2013 NFLRC Summer Institute: Language for Specific Purposes ...

This document reports on, and evaluates NFLRC 2013 Summer Institute:“Language for Specific Purposes” at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa...

Ivan Banov

Managing Editor, Language Learning & Technology Journal

Proceedings 2015: Selected papers from the nineteenth college-wide ...

In a Word

Mitsuko Suzuki

Managing Editor, Reading in a Foreign Language Journal

NFLRC Short Course: Intersections Between High-Leverage Teaching Practices ...

Explore the intersections between HLTPs & PBLL

Tim Murphey-Best of, volume 1

By popular demand! This "best of" collection includes four hour-long Tim Murphey video presentations on two DVDs...

Song and music in language learning

Tim demonstrates ways in which music and song can facilitate language acquisition, healthy living, and positive group dynamics...

2019 NFLRC Webinars: Harnessing High-Leverage Teaching Practices (HLTPs) ...

Interested in the intersections between HLTPs and PBLL? Join our webinar!

Going to ACTFL 2019 in Washington DC? Come join us!

Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language ...

This edited collection of fourteen articles examines connected speech is of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL...

2015 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in Action Intensive ...

2015 Summer Institute

Mentoring Program for Online Language Teachers

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Singing Our Way to Well-Becoming

Well-being is a state of general “wellness” which can make us lazy in our efforts to improve the world. I have proposed “well-becoming” as a more active, proced

Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Fall Symposium

The annual HALT Fall Symposium features hands-on workshops on ways to integrate technology into language teaching

Teaching Assistant Survival Society (TASS) (2008-2017)

TASS is an informal professional development forum for language Teaching Assistants

5th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation ...

5th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC): Linking Language & Wellbeing

2016 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT)

The Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) comes to Hawai‘i in 2016

4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation ...

The 4th ICLDC, “Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application,” was held February 26-March 3, 2015

2015 Fundamentals of Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Online ...

Learn the fundamentals of project-based language learning (PBLL) and earn your digital badge!

Hawaiʻi Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Spring Conference

The annual HALT Spring Conference features keynote addresses, paper presentations, roundtables, and a publishers' exhibit