Envisioning PBLL

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

 

Naiyi Xie Fincham

Assistant Faculty Specialist in Instructional Design

Integrated Performance Assessments

Expand your knowledge of performance assessments guided by experienced professionals in the field

Online Language Pedagogy

Check out our many resources for online language teaching

Project-Based Language Learning

Fall 2019: Short course on High-Leverage Teaching Practices (HLTPs) & PBLL | Browse PBLL resources and events sponsored by the NFLRC.

Resources for the Mentoring Program for Online Language ...

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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.

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...

NFLRChawaii YouTube channel

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

NFLRC Resources on ScholarSpace

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

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...

Online Learning Communities for Less Commonly Taught Languages

To address the LRC mandate for “the conduct and dissemination of research on new and improved methods for teaching foreign languages, inc...

Online Certificate Courses in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

This project to be carried out in the 2006-2010 funding cycle will enable students and government and civilian personnel to earn the UH a...

Second language teaching and learning in the Net ...

Today’s young people—the Net Generation—have grown up with technology all around them. However, teachers cannot assume that students’ familiarity with tech...

Multimedia Language Learning Software

This website was developed as a follow-up to the 1998 Invitational Symposium on Assessing and Advancing Technology Option in Language Learning. The goal of...

Checklist: Evaluative criteria for computer-delivered language learning systems

The Multimedia Language Learning Software website was developed as a follow-up to the 1998 Invitational Symposium on Assessing and Advanc...

2004 NFLRC symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning & ...

Final report on the 2004 Symposium, Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the Field

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...

Fostering cohesion and community in asynchronous online courses

Powerpoint presentation at CALICO 2008 in San Francisco.

Song Jiang

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Richard Medina

Assistant Director for Technology

Mark Warschauer

Co-Editor, Language Learning & Technology Journal

Julio C. Rodriguez

Director

Stephen Tschudi (Fleming)

Specialist in Technology for Language Education

Dorothy M. Chun

Co-Editor, Language Learning & Technology Journal

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...

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...

Online Chinese for minority-serving institutions

Online Cafés: Intercultural Learning Communities

This 25-minute video (view/download it online here) describes the Online Cafés project, in which language educators have worked together ...

Bridget Beaver

Curriculum Development Project

Ken Kiyohara

Graduate Assistant, Center for Language & Technology

Distance Education, Distributed Learning, and Introductory Language Instruction

The NFLRC has been carrying out a series of interrelated distance education projects since 1995. In the current grant cycle, a course she...

Continuation of the journal Language Learning & Technology ...

Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal, published exclusively on the World Wide Web, which began publication in July 1997. ...

Continuation of the journal Language Learning & Technology ...

A major initiative of the NFLRC during the 1996-1999 grant cyclewas the establishment of a new professional journal on technology andfo...

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...

Teacher Training via Interactive Television and Internet

This project explored the media of interactive television (ITV) and internet for teacher education. The context for the project was an in...

Language Learning & Technology: Online Journal

Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal, published exclusively on the World Wide Web, which began publication in July 1997. ...

Distance Education

Performance-based Multimedia Materials for Mandarin Chinese and Korean via an Integrated CD-ROM and World-Wide-Web Delivery FormatA new...

Susan Hojnacki

Curriculum Development Project

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

2018 Fundamentals of PBLL: Badge Criteria

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2019 Language Learning & Technology Graduate Assistant position

UH Mānoa graduate students - an employment opportunity with our LL&T journal

2019 Selecting and Adapting Materials for Online Language ...

Free online course on selecting & adapting materials for online language learning & teaching

2017 Fundamentals of PBLL: Badge Criteria

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Online Professional Development

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

2016 Fundamentals of PBLL: Badge Criteria

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2016 Fundamentals of PBLL Online Institute - Start ...

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The NFLRC Team @ ACTFL 2018

Going to the 2018 ACTFL Conference in New Orleans? The NFLRC team will be presenting there. Come join us!

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!

2015 Fundamentals of PBLL: Badge Criteria

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2015 Fundamentals of PBLL (Option 1)

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Mentoring Program for Online Language Teachers

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NFLRC National Conference Presentations

Our annual presentations at ACTFL & CALICO

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

2017 Assessment in Online Language Courses

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2016 Online Symposium: Project-Based Language Learning: Inspiring Teachers, ...

On Jan 12-15, 2016, the PBLL Online Symposium will provide a free forum on the potential for PBLL to transform and enhance language education.

2016 Materials Development for Online Language Courses

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2016 Fundamentals of Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Online ...

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

2015 Designing Interaction for Online Language Learning

Designed for in-service teachers of world languages in online environments, this course, offered in Fall 2015, focuses on the various kinds of interaction that

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

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

Online Summer Institute for Non-native Teachers of Chinese ...

2009 Summer Institute

Hawaiʻi Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Spring Conference

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