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The NFLRC Team @ ACTFL 2017

Going to the 2017 ACTFL Conference in Nashville? The NFLRC team and a number of our intensive summer institute participants will be presenting

Project-Based Language Learning

Despite the natural match between PBL and the needs of language learners, the application of PBL in world language curricula ...

Online Professional Development

The NFLRC will develop and conduct a series of 4 online professional development institutes ...

Language Learning & Technology

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

Reading in a Foreign Language

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

Language Documentation & Conservation

Fieldwork methods and ethical issues are only two of the many topics covered in Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C), a fully refereed open-access...

2017 International Society for Language Studies (ISLS)

The International Society for Language Studies, co-sponsored by the University Hawaii - Manoa, will hold a conference from June 15-17, 2017 at the University of

2017 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Intensive Summer Institute: ...

Further develop your PBLL Project Blueprints with guidance from experts in the field

NFLRC Listserv

Subscribe to the NFLRC News for our latest announcements on publications, events, and more!

Support the ACTFL PBLL Special Interest Group (SIG)

Sign up to support the ACTFL PBLL Special Interest Group (SIG)

Project-Based Language Learning: Promoting Child Literacy in Brazil

Meet Rachel Mamiya Hernandez who has applied principles of project-based learning (PBL) in a Portuguese language class.

Language Resource Centers

Explore free resources from 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers. Learn more about this program filling a critical need.

With Aloha and Appreciation for Dick Schmidt

It is with great sadness that we announce that Dr. Richard (Dick) Schmidt passed away on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Dick was the longest serving NFLRC director

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

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

2016 Materials Development for Online Language Courses

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2017 Online Symposium: The Power of Project-Based Language ...

On Jan 11-12, 2017, the PBLL Online Symposium will provide a free forum on the power of project-based language learning

2017 Fundamentals of Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Online ...

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

Pragmatics & language learning, volume 14

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2014 International Conference of Pragmatics and Language Learning at Indiana University.

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

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LRC Brochure

This brochure highlights work of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers.

Student learning outcomes assessment in college foreign language ...

NFLRC's NEWEST : Changes in accreditation policies and institutional practices leads to the emergence of student learning outcomes assessment as an important

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...

Noticing and second language acquisition: Studies in honor ...

Celebrates the life and groundbreaking work of Richard Schmidt, the developer of the influential Noticing Hypothesis in the field of second language acquisi...

Developing, using, and analyzing rubrics in language assessment ...

Rubrics are essential tools for all language teachers in this age of communicative and task-based teaching and assessment—tools that allow us to efficiently...

Aozora: Intermediate-advanced Japanese communication (second edition)

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

NFLRC Resouces on ScholarSpace

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

Pragmatics and Second Language Learning

The NFLRC has carried out numerous research projects concerning the pragmatic aspects of second language use and learning, a number focusing on the investigatio

NFLRChawaii YouTube channel

A repository of both general and language-specific resources for teachers and learners of Asia-Pacific, The NFLRChawaii YouTube channel...

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...

Teaching Assistant Survival Society (TASS)

TASS is an informal professional development forum for language Teaching Assistants

Center for Language & Technology

The Language Learning Center (LLC) offers workshops each semester to enhance language teaching and learning in the College of Languages, Linguistics, and...

NFLRC Funding Continued to 2018

The University of Hawai‘i has been selected to serve as one of a small number of national Language Resource Centers established to improve language education.

Manchu: A textbook for reading documents (second edition)

“...a welcome event in the field of Manchu studies.” --Journal of the American Oriental Society 130.4 (2010)View the table ...

Tala fa`asamoa e faitau fa`atasi, Samoan stories to ...

These three charming stories — “Speak to Me in Samoan,” “The Girl Who Plays Golf,” and “Lani and Lili...

Summer Institutes for Professional Development

NFLRC has carried out summer institutes since 1991, providing training and professional development for K-16 language educators on conten...

History

NFLRC was among the first three Language Resource Centers established. The number has now grown to fifteen centers nationwide...