Federal funding for the Title VI Language Resource Center (LRC) Program has been abruptly discontinued after 35 years of work in world language education. As a result, many LRCs including the NFLRC will be unable to carry out most of their activities planned for the fourth year of the current funding cycle (2025–2026). Learn More

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Teaching & Learning Languages in the United States (TELL-US)

2025 TELL-US podcast series: “Bringing Language and Culture To Life Through Authentic Resources in World Language Education”

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Online Korean

Online High School Korean Courses and Professional Learning for teachers of Korean

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Pragmatics & Language Learning, Volume 15

Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World

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Teacher Portfolio & Preparation Series (TiPPS)

Free 8-module self study online course designed to help future language educators prepare for the job market they will face upon graduation

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Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)

Register today! Course open January 5-June 30, 2026.

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Online Language Pedagogy (OLP) Series

2025 Japanese OLP lessons are now available.

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Project-Based Language Learning (Pebbles) Repository

Project ideas with standards-based blueprints to guide implementation

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Manchu: A textbook for reading documents (2nd edition)

This book offers students a tool to gain a basic grounding in the Manchu language and includes audio recordings to assist students with the pronunciation of the texts.

Current Initiatives

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Project-Based Language Learning

Explore our immense array of resources for educators interested in incorporating PBLL into their language classrooms.

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Online Language Pedagogy

Professional learning resources for online language teaching through webinars & TED-Ed lessons.

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Teaching & Learning Languages in the United States (TELL-US)

Podcast:​ Bringing Language and Culture To Life Through Authentic Resources in World Language Education (2025)

Upcoming Events

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2025 TELL-US podcast series: November 4, 11, & 18 2025

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Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) MOOC: January 5-June 30, 2026

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Event Calendar

See what’s coming up or go back in time!

Professional Learning

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Online Courses, Webinars, & Series

Browse professional learning resources.
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Conferences & Symposia

Learn more about our many academic events.

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Summer Institutes

Intensive professional learning for K-16 language educators.

Teaching Resources

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Mentoring Resources

Check out our resources for mentoring online language teachers and project-based language learning teachers.

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Universal Design for Learning in World Languages

7-episode podcast on how we can use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in our work as language educators

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High Leverage Teaching Practices

7 TED-Ed lessons based on the book Enacting the World of Language Instruction: High-Leverage Teaching Practices

Open Access Journals

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Language Learning & Technology

The refereed online journal Language Learning & Technology seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the U.S. and around the world on issues related to technology and language education. The latest ISI  Journal Citation Reports® Ranking for 2021 showed that LLT had an Impact Factor of 4.694, placing it 10th out of 194 Linguistics journals and 31st out of 267 Education and Educational Research journals. Est. 1997

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Language Documentation & Conservation

Est. 2006

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Reading in a Foreign Language

Est. 1983

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Second Language Research & Practice

Est. 2020

Materials & Publications

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Open Educational Resources

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Pragmatics Series

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Podcast Collection

Language Resources

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Less Commonly Taught Languages

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Heritage Language Learning

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Language for Specific Purposes

Assessment

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Integrated Performance Assessments

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Rubrics in Language Assessment

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Program Evaluation in Foreign Language Education