Online Cafes for Heritage Learners of Chinese, Filipino, ...

The virtual equivalent of the neighborhood coffee house, the on-line cafe is a place for people to gather for conversation and social int...

Dissemination: Conferences, Workshops, Publications

Results from all projects undertaken by the NFLRC will be disseminated to the widest audience possible. The primary vehicles for dissemin...

Teacher Training for Southeast Asian Languages

The University of Hawai`i has strong programs in Southeast Asian languages, all of which are LCTLs in the US. Building on UH's strengths...

Summer Institutes for Professional Development (1999-2002)

The University of Hawai‘i has been offering summer institutes for professional development since 1991. These institutes have earned a sol...

Disseminating Technology-based Models for Distance Education in Critical ...

The University of Hawaiʻi and the UH NFLRC have a strong commitment to and significant experience in distance-education-delivered foreign...

Drawing on Community Language Resources to Improve Foreign ...

The goal of this project is to capitalize on community language resources in developing programs and products to improve foreign language...

Computer-based Tests for Less Commonly Taught Languages

James Dean Brown ThomHudson The goal of this project is to develop computer-based tests (CBTs) for less commonly taught languages, with ...

Foreign Language Partnership

Rationale and Objectives:United States educational policies and public attitudes have often reflected a narrow view of language needs a...

Self-Instruction

Instruction to would-be learners, both serious and casual, in the uncommonly taught languages is often completely unavailable unless the ...

Motivated Strategies for Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

This research project seeks to be integrative, bringing together a number of research strands within the field of foreign language learni...