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The NFLRC has an over 30 year track history of publications. Over this period publications have taken the traditional print form, digital and online, software, journals and open educational resources (OERs). Browse our latest resources or explore the extensive collection of publications using the filtering tool below.
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Classroom Activities for Blended Learning in Beginning Chinese
This publication, CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES FOR BLENDED LEARNING IN BEGINNING CHINESE, focuses on in-class activities for beginning ...
Online Chinese Teaching and Learning in 2020 – 2020中文线上教学
This edited monograph includes 21 papers written by 41 contributors from 9 countries on four continents, sharing their teaching ...
Proceedings 2020: Selected papers from the twenty-fourth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics & literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures. View the complete list ...
Korean for professionals volume 5
The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...
Proceedings 2019: Selected papers from the twenty-third college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics & literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures. View the complete list ...
Download the Envisioning PBLL MOOC
This resource is an exported Moodle course, designed for installation in a Moodle course. The Envisioning Project-Based Language ...
Second Language Research & Practice
Introducing our new journal! Grounded in the discipline of Applied Linguistics, the SLRP journal aims to disseminate scholarship on ...
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...
Language Documentation & Conservation
Fieldwork methods and ethical issues are only two of the many topics covered in Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C), ...
Guidelines for submissions to the NFLRC Monographs & Pragmatics series
We invite submissions of materials for publication as NFLRC Monographs. Monographs discuss ongoing curriculum projects, report on the ...
Language Learning & Technology
Rated in top 20 journals both in linguistics and education by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports since 2007, LLT...
NFLRC Resources on ScholarSpace
NFLRC maintains a large searchable archive of free language research and teaching materials on ScholarSpace...
Identifying and responding to evaluation needs in college foreign language programs
Our goal is to build the capacity of college foreign language educators to engage with a variety of evaluation, assessment, and ...
Korean for professionals volume 4
The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...
Proceedings 2018: Selected papers from the twenty-second college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics & literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures. View the complete list ...
Proceedings 2017: Selected papers from the twenty-first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics & literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures. View the complete list ...
Korean for professionals volume 3
The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...
NFLRC 2017 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Intensive Summer Institute: Pathways to PBLL
This document reports on, and evaluates the NFLRC 2017 Intensive Summer Institute more...
Pragmatics & interaction: Vol. 4. Interactional competence in Japanese as an additional language
This volume of Pragmatics & Interaction is the first to focus on interaction in Japanese
Proceedings 2016: Selected papers from the twentieth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics & literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures. View the complete list ...
Tim Murphey tips (YouTube playlist)
Tim Murphey’s information is invaluable and his enthusiasm infectious. Access samples of Dr. Tim Murphey lectures on inventive ...
Proceedings 2015: Selected papers from the nineteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics & literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures. View the complete list ...
Pragmatics & language learning, volume 14
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2014 International Conference of Pragmatics and Language Learning at ...
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 ...
NFLRC 2015 Intensive Summer Institute: Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in Action
This document reports on, and evaluates the NFLRC 2015 Intensive Summer Institute more...
Developing Courses in Languages for Specific Purposes
Language for Specific Purposes courses provide an invaluable alternative or supplement to general language courses...
Korean for professionals volume 2
The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...
Student learning outcomes assessment in college foreign language programs
NFLRC's NEWEST : Changes in accreditation policies and institutional practices leads to the emergence of student learning outcomes ...
LRC Brochure
This brochure highlights work of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers.
4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) evaluation report
This document reports on, and evaluates the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) held at the ...
Proceedings 2014: Selected papers from the eighteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literature
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2014 NFLRC Summer Institute: Language for Specific Purposes evaluation report
This document reports on, and evaluates the 2014 NFLRC Summer Institute: Language for Specific Purposes held at the University of ...
Proceedings 2013: Selected papers from the seventeenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual conference for students in the UHM College of Languages, Linguistics, & Literature.
Cultura-inspired intercultural exchanges: Focus on Asian and Pacific languages
Although many online intercultural exchanges have been conducted based on the groundbreaking Cultura model, most to date have been ...
2013 NFLRC Summer Institute: Language for Specific Purposes evaluation report
This document reports on, and evaluates NFLRC 2013 Summer Institute:“Language for Specific Purposes” at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa...
Pragmatics of Vietnamese as native and target language
Download/view table of contents.AboutThe volume offers a wealth of new information about the forms of several speech acts and their soc...
New perspectives on Japanese language learning, linguistics, and culture
Covers several important topics on teaching and learning spoken and written Japanese and culture in and beyond classroom settings, but ...
Practical assessment tools for college Japanese
Each module presents a practical assessment idea that can be adopted or adapted for the reader’s own formative or summative assessment ...
NFLRChawaii YouTube channel
A repository of both general and language-specific resources for teachers and learners of Asia-Pacific, The NFLRChawaii YouTube channel...
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 ...
Korean for professionals volume 1
The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...
Pragmatics and language learning, volume 13
Examines the organization of second language and multilingual speakers’ talk and pragmatic knowledge across a range of naturalistic ...
Noticing and second language acquisition: Studies in honor of Richard Schmidt
Celebrates the life and groundbreaking work of Richard Schmidt, the developer of the influential Noticing Hypothesis in the field of ...
The 7th International Conference & Workshops on Technology & Chinese Language Teaching: Conference Proceedings 2012
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference & Workshops onTechnology & Chinese Language Teaching, held at the University of Hawai...
Present Communities of Imagination (PCOIz)
Using group dynamics as an umbrella term for overlapping literatures on community, cooperative, and collaborative practices, I introduce ...
Developing, using, and analyzing rubrics in language assessment with case studies in Asian and Pacific languages
Rubrics are essential tools for all language teachers in this age of communicative and task-based teaching and assessment—tools that ...
Proceedings 2012: Selected papers from the sixteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the College of Language...
Proceedings 2011: Selected papers from the fifteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the fifteenth annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the Universit...
Language Resource Centers bringing worlds together (LRC joint brochure 2011)
Overview of the fifteen Language Resource Centers nationwide (for the 2010–2014 grant period)...
‘O faia fa‘atumua o Samoa mai tala o le vavau
More so than most other Polynesian languages, the Samoan language is highly stratified. The common spoken form of Samoan used among frien...
Using surveys for understanding and improving foreign language programs
The goal of this guide is to help language educators develop surveys that produce useful information for evaluation in language programs....
L2 learning as social practice: Conversation-analytic perspectives
View table of contentsRead the review in Discourse StudiesThis volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to si...
Tala fa`asamoa e faitau fa`atasi, Samoan stories to read together
These three charming stories — “Speak to Me in Samoan,” “The Girl Who Plays Golf,” and “Lani and Lili...
The role of consciousness in second language learning
Richard Schmidt presents on the role of consciousness in second language learning at the 1988 SLRF Forum held in at the University of ...
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 ...
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 ...
2009 NFLRC Summer Institute For Non-native Teachers of Chinese Evaluation
Evaluation of the 2009 NFLRC Summer Institute For Non-native Teachers of Chinese held at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, from June ...
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 ...
2009 NFLRC summer institute: Web-based two-week intensive language course for non-native teachers of Japanese evaluation report.
This document reports on, and evaluates the 2009 NFLRC summer institute: Web-based two-week intensive language course for non-native teac...
Proceedings 2010: Selected papers from the fourteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawaiʻi
Pragmatics and language learning, volume 12
Examines the organization of second language and multilingual speakers’ talk and pragmatic knowledge across a range of naturalistic ...
Research among learners of Chinese as a foreign language
Cutting-edge in its approach and international in its authorship, this fourth monograph in a series sponsored by the Chinese Language ...
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...
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 ...
Proceedings 2009: Selected papers from the thirteenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...
Talk-in-interaction: Multilingual perspectives
Offers original studies of interaction in a range of languages and language varieties, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, ...
Second Language Research Forum 2008: Conference evaluation report
Evaluation of the 2008 Second Language Research Forum Conference.
Second language teaching and learning in the Net Generation
Today’s young people—the Net Generation—have grown up with technology all around them. However, teachers cannot ...
Toward useful program evaluation in college foreign language education
Innovative, useful evaluation work conducted within U.S. college foreign language programs. An introductory chapter scopes out the ...
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...
Fostering cohesion and community in asynchronous online courses
Powerpoint presentation at CALICO 2008 in San Francisco.
Proceedings 2008: Selected papers from the twelfth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...
Evaluation of the Language Learning Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Evaluation of the Language Learning Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Chinese as a heritage language: Fostering rooted world citizenry
Thirty-two scholars examine the socio-cultural, cognitive-linguistic, and educational-institutional trajectories along which Chinese ...
Case studies in foreign language placement: Practices and possibilities
Although most language programs make placement decisions on the basis of placement tests, there is surprisingly little published about di...
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...
Developing useful evaluation practices in college foreign langauge programs: Showcase session
This booklet summarizes three immediate outcomes of the authoring group’s work during the Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in Colle...
2007 Second International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching: Conference evaluation report
Evaluation of the 2007 Second International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching conference.
2007 17th International Conference on Pragmatics & Language Learning: Final report
Evaluation of the 2007 17th International Conference on Pragmatics & Language Learning.
Evaluation of the NFLRC summer institute 2007: Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs
Evaluation of the NFLRC summer institute 2007: Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs
Proceedings 2007: Selected papers from the eleventh college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...
Documenting and revitalizing Austronesian languages
The case studies in this volume lead to a discussion of changes in the field of linguistics and the alliances which are being built betwe...
Selected papers from Pragmatics in the CJK Classroom: The State of the Art
papers in this volume address current concerns in L2 pragmatics that range from the development of pragmatic competence by children ...
Aozora: Intermediate-advanced Japanese communication (second edition)
Develops intermediate students’ oral and written communicative skills and provides insights into Japanese society and culture...
Pingelapese “e” vs. “ae”: Do you know the difference?
This simple and colorful Pingelapese word book grew out of the authors' participation in the UH's Language Documentation Project. The ...
Thai Language and Culture for Beginners (Book 2+CD+DVD)
Auxiliary materials no longer available through UH Press are now available for free download on ScholarSpace. Thai Language and Culture f...
Proceedings 2006: Selected papers from the tenth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...
Usability test report for the National Foreign Language Resource Center Website
Usability test report for the NFLRC website update completed in December 2005. Includes description of the methodology plus results obtained.
Foreign language program evaluation: An annotated bibliography of resources for foreign language educators
The project's mission is to enable useful evaluation in support of foreign language programs. This is the annotated bibliography ...
Pragmatics and language learning, volume 11
Features cutting-edge research on L2 pragmatics from a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. It offers fresh ...
Pingelapese alphabet book
This simple and colorful Pingelapese word book grew out of the author's participation in the UHs Language Documentation Project. The ...
Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language speakers
This edited collection of fourteen articles examines connected speech is of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials ...
Communicating in Khmer: Reading and writing for beginners (includes 1 CD)
[no description available. Please contact the author Chhany Sak-Humphry]
Reanalysis of discernment from a social constructivist perspective: Academic consultation sessions in Japanese universities
From the social constructivist perspective, this paper examines speech style shifts in academic consultation sessions between professors ...
Manual for the Vietnamese elicited imitation test (manual plus 2 audio CDs)
Elicited imitation can be a reliable and valid measure of general competence, while also possibly serving as an instrument for ...
Proceedings 2005: Selected papers from the ninth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...
2005 NFLRC workshop: Designing Effective Foreign Language Placement Tests
Final report on the 2005 NFLRC workshop, Designing Effective Foreign Language Placement Tests. During this two-week workshop participant...
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 ...
2004 selected papers from the NFLRC symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning and Language Instruction
These eight papers were presented at the Distance Education, Distributed Learning, and Language Instruction Symposium held July 27-30, 2...
Las voces de las mujeres de Xelajú
Listen to the authentic voices of twenty ordinary Guatemalan women as you watch these interviewees share their unique views regarding ...
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...
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 ...
Issues in placement survey
The overall goal of the project is to develop a manual of best practices in placement testing that would be of use to those people ...
2004 NFLRC symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the field
Final report on the 2004 Symposium, Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the Field
Issues in placement survey [website]
The overall goal of the project is to develop a manual of best practices in placement testing that would be of use to those people ...
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/COTSEAL Workshop: New Visions for Southeast Asian Language Teaching
Evaluation of the 2004 NFLRC/COTSEAL Workshop, New Visions for Southeast Asian Language Teaching.
Proceedings 2003: Selected papers from the seventh college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...
Proceedings 2004: Selected papers from the eighth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the eighth annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the ...
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...
Listenership in Japanese: An examination of overlapping listener response
This study focuses on a particular listening pattern in Japanese which occurs by overlapping with the current speaker's incrementing utte...
Tagalog for health care providers
intended for nurses, social workers, and public health professionals. They are designed to strengthen the Tagalog speaking skills of ...
Online Chinese for minority-serving institutions
This video reports on an experimental two-year introductory course sequence in Mandarin Chinese is being developed and taught to ...
Pakinggan at unawain: Comprehending intermediate Filipino
Watching while listening promotes understanding and makes learning Filipino a lively and engaging experience. Pakinggan at unawain...
Mari belajar sopan santun Bahasa Indonesia
Filmed on location in East Java, Indonesia, the Mari Belajar Sopan Santun Bahasa Indonesia set consists of two videotapes, a ma...
2003 NFLRC workshop: CLAN for conversation analysis
Evaluation of the 2003 NFLRC workshop: CLAN for conversation analysis.
Proceedings 2001: Selected papers from the fifth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...
2003 NFLRC summer institute: Corpus Linguistics for Korean Language Learning and Teaching
Evaluation of the 2003 NFLRC summer institute, Corpus Linguistics for Korean Language Learning and Teaching.
2003 NFLRC summer institute for professional development: Southeast Asian pedagogy workshops
Report on a series of site visits and faculty development workshops at US-supported advanced study abroad programs in Southeast Asia. ...
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 ...
Proceedings 2002: Selected papers from the sixth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics, and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...
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, ...
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...
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...
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 language needs
Evaluation of the 2000 NFLRC Summer Institute, Heritage Learners and National Language Needs.
Communicating in Khmer 1 (includes 1 CD)
Each text (Khmer 1 or Khmer 2) plus CD-ROM set contains fifteen lessons representing a second-year Khmer language course taught at the u...
Proceedings 1999: Selected papers from the third college-wide conference for students languages, linguistics and literatures
Selected papers from the first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures
An investigation of second language task-based performance assessments
volume describes the creation of actual performance assessment instruments and their validation. After briefly reviewing the ...
2002 Summer Institute evaluation: Web-based workshops for advanced reading & writing development & maintenance
Evaluation of the 2002 NFLRC Summer Institute, Web-Based Workshops for Advanced Reading & Writing Development & Maintenance .
New technologies and language learning: Cases in the less commonly taught languages (ONLINE VERSION)
In recent years, the National Security Education Program (NSEP) has supported an increasing number of programs for teaching languages usi...
Proceedings 2000: Selected papers from the fourth college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literature
Selected papers from the annual college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures at the University of Hawai...
New technologies and language learning: Cases in the less commonly taught languages
Seven chapters describe how different types of technologies (e.g., Web, ITV, and audio- or video-based materials) are used to support ...
Makinig at bumasa: Intermediate-advanced Filipino
To order, or for more information, contact Ruth Mabanglo mabanglo@hawaii.edu This Filipino/Tagalog interacti...
KÀN NA! Authentic Chinese reading & video (PC only)
A variety of authentic sources, including a newspaper report of a hijacking, a family letter to Chinese students in the US...
Communicating in Khmer 2 (includes 1 CD)
Each text (Khmer 1 or Khmer 2) plus CD-ROM set contains fifteen lessons representing a second-year Khmer language course taught at the u...
HANGUL-RO BOJA! Authentic Korean reading & video
A variety of authentic sources, including notes found on the family refrigerator, traditional folk tales, modern poetry...
‘O si Manu a Ali’i: A text for the advanced study of Samoan language and culture
'O si Manu a Ali'i is the first comprehensive guide for teachers of Samoan oratory and the Samoan language of respect...
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 ...
2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Developing web-based foreign language learning environments
Evaluation of the 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute, Developing Web-Based Foreign Language Learning Environments.
2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Web-based workshops for advanced reading & writing development & maintenance
Evaluation of the 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute, Web-Based Workshops for Advanced Reading & Writing Development & Maintenance.
A focus on language test development: Expanding the language proficiency construct across a variety of tests
This volume presents eight research studies which introduce a variety of novel, non-traditional forms of second and foreign language ...
2001 Summer Institute evaluation: Korean pedagogy workshop: Task-based language teaching
Evaluation of the 2001 NFLRC Summer Institute, Korean Pedagogy Workshop: Task-Based Language Teaching.
Mind, language, and epistemology: Toward a language socialization paradigm for SLA
Karen Watson-Gegeo’s plenary talk lays out the issues involved and argues for a language socialization paradigm for second language ...
Voices and visions in global perspective: Selected papers from the second college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures
Selected papers from the first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures
Motivation and second language acquisition
A wide range of theoretical and research methodological issues and also offer empirical results (both qualitative and quantitative) ...
Developing Korean language performance assessments
This Research Note reports on a task-based performance assessment development project for Korean as a foreign language through the Nation...
2000 Summer Institute evaluation: Computer-based tests for less commonly taught languages
Evaluation of the 2000 NFLRC Summer Institute, Computer-Based Tests for Less Commonly Taught Languages .
2000 Summer Institute evaluation: Performance-based Chinese language instruction
Evaluation of the 2000 NFLRC Summer Institute, Performance-Based Chinese Language Instruction.
Motivation, reported strategy use, and preferences for activities in foreign language classes at the UHM: Reliability and validity of instruments
NFLRC carried out a series of large scale data collection at undergraduate level foreign language classrooms in the university. The ...
Languages 2000 at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
This publication gives an overview of language departments, programs, and resources at the University of Hawai‘i. print booklet, free...
Four perspectives on L2 pragmatic development
An increasing body of research examines the development of L2 learners' pragmatic ability. While some earlier longitudinal studies ...
Japanese placement tests at the University of Hawai‘i: Applying item response theory
First-rate placement procedures are important for effective teaching and learning in any language program because they help create classe...
Identity and second language learning: Local Japanese learning Japanese in Hawai‘i
Ethnographic case study of four Japanese American university students studying the Japanese language in Hawai‘i investigates the role ...
Keys to Chinese character writing
A self-paced tutorial text plus video designed to address common problems students face when learning to write Chinese characters. Its ...
Manchu: A textbook for reading documents
As the first English-language Manchu textbook since Moellendorf's Manchu Grammar in 1892, this book offers students a tool to gain a good...
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...
Studies on Korean in community schools
The papers in this volume focus on language teaching and learning in Korean community schools. Drawing on innovative experimental work an...
Shadowing and summarizing
Shadowing and summarizing are deceptively simple tasks that can greatly enhance learning. This video shows an actual class going through ...
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 discourse markers in extended tellings
Study of the explicit instruction of Japanese discourse markers to English-speaking, intermediate learners of Japanese as a Foreign ...
Japanese language needs analysis 1998-1999
The results of the first stage of an on-going curriculum development project aimed at creating performance based tests for the first ...
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...
Nah, Baca! Authentic Indonesian readings (vol. 2, student workbook plus reading packet)
lessons, based on readings selected from the contemporary press, for the teaching of Indonesian as a second language. The accompanying ...
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...
L2 vocabulary learning strategies
Explicit instruction can facilitate learner awareness of the surface features of a language, but does not guarantee it. Similarly, learne...
Integration of national standards in a Japanese language classroom
This 20-minute video plus guidebook familiarizes pre-service and in-service teachers of Japanese with the "five C" goals of the Japanese ...
Introducing action research into post-secondary foreign language teacher education
The teaching of foreign languages at the post-secondary level in the USA increasingly reflects an interest in developing communicative ...
Nah, Baca! Authentic Indonesian readings (vol. 2, teacher’s edition plus readings packet)
This Teacher's Edition accompanies Nah, Baca! Volume Two, which offers thirty-two lessons, based on readings selected from the contempora...
Chinese language video clips
Chinese Language Video Clips are not lessons but "raw material" -- video segments shot in China to be used as you see fit. Enjoy fifty ...
The development of a lexical tone phonology in American adult learners of standard Mandarin Chinese
The study reported is based on an assessment of three decades of research on the SLA of Mandarin tone. It investigates whether difference...
UG access in L2 acquisition: Reassessing the question Colloquium papers from the Second Language Research Forum 1998 October 15–18, 1998 at the University of Hawai‘i
Reexamine the assumptions that went into the original UG-access research of the 1980s. Is the original access question a reasonable ...
The life of language, the language of life: Selected papers from the first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures
Selected papers from the first college-wide conference for students in languages, linguistics and literatures
Authentic Indonesian video (text + 3 videotapes)
Presents 20 intermediate to advanced lessons based on authentic programming and featuring language-learning activities with a key for ...
Designing second language performance assessments
This technical report focuses on the decision-making potential provided by second language performanc...
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...
Second language development in writing: Measures of fluency, accuracy, and complexity
In this book, the authors analyze and compare the ways that fluency, accuracy, grammatical complexity, and lexical complexity have been m...
Intermediate reader in technical and scientific Japanese
Intermediate Japanese students may learn complex grammatical structures and reading strategies at the same time that they acquire ...
Nah, Baca! Authentic Indonesian readings (vol. 1, teacher’s edition plus readings packet)
This Teacher's Edition accompanies Nah, Baca!, Volume 1, which is designed for a first year language course at the university level and i...
Teaching Russian reading in a distance classroom: A report
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 ...
Foreign language partnership
US policy makers and educators have tended to view immigrant languages as a "problem" rather than recognize these languages as "resources...
Bridging gaps with technology in the ITV classroom
This short presentation interpolates discussion of the implementation of desirable pedagogical principles in the interactive ...
Can pragmatic competence be taught?
The plenary at the 1997 TESOL Convention explores the 'teachability' of pragmatic ability in a second or foreign language. It is ...
Acquisition of Italian grammatical gender: L2 learners
This study investigated the sensitivity to gender cues exhibited by L2 learners of Italian. The participants were 64 students in first- a...
New trends and issues in teaching Japanese language and culture
In recent years, Japanese has become the fourth most commonly taught foreign language at the college level in the United States. As the n...
Nah, Baca! Authentic Indonesian readings (vol. 1, student workbook plus reading packet)
Contains twenty-two lessons, based on readings selected from the contemporary Indonesian press. The accompanying graded set of ...
Chinese language video lessons for classroom use (text plus 2 videos)
These fifteen lessons in Mandarin Chinese model a performance-based five-stage scheme for lesson development, derived from natural ...
Authentic Tagalog video (text + videotape)
Designed to supplement existing Tagalog curricula at the secondary and post-secondary school level. The twenty-one video lessons are ...
1996 New technologies and less commonly taught languages: Abstracts and other information from the NFLRC Symposium
This page includes abstracts and other information from the NFLRC Symposium held at the University of Hawai‘i, July 8-12, 1996.
Bilingualism and early literacy
1996 lecture presented at the University of Hawai‘i by Ellen Bialystok, Sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center.
Computer-mediated collaborative learning: Theory and practice
Explores the nature of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and examines its potential in promoting collaborative language learning....
Motivation for learning foreign languages
This DVD offers an informative and entertaining discussion of several studies on the role of motivation in second and foreign language le...
Pilot instruments for assessing cross-cultural pragmatics in nonnative learners of Korean
The instruments in this report are pilot versions of instruments that have been developed in order to provide means for researchers to ex...
Chinese language video clips for classroom use (video version)
Filmed on location in Beijing, mostly at Peking University, these naturalistic video clips, ranging from less than one minute to eight mi...
Korean language and culture materials
These materials were developed as a lightning-quick introduction to Korean language and to the intricacies of personal interaction with t...
Linguistics and language teaching: Proceedings of the sixth joint LSH-HATESL conference
This volume contains 18 articles revolving around linguistic issues, sociolinguistics, and language teaching and learning.
Telecollaboration in foreign language learning: Proceedings of the Hawai‘i Symposium
A sampling of presentations on electronic networking for foreign language teaching and research, including electronic discussion and ...
Six measures of JSL pragmatics
This book investigates differences among tests that can be used to measure the cross-cultural pragmatic ability of English speaking learn...
Motivational aspects of using computers for writing and communication
This sample chapter from Telecollaboration in Foreign Language Learning: Proceedings of the Hawai`i Symposium (Technical Report #12) desc...
Computer-mediated communication in foreign language education: An annotated bibliography
This literature review is designed to be an online resource to aid teachers and researchers seeking information on computer technology an...
A lesson in learning Hawaiian
Lise Winer of Southern Illinois University discusses her experiences learning both Hawaiian and hula, focusing on cognitive learning ...
Language learning motivation: Pathways to the new century
This volume chronicles a revolution in our thinking about what makes students want to learn languages and what causes them to persist in ...
Integrating language and content instruction
Students who participate in immersion programs not only become proficient in the immersion language, they also achieve academically...
The effect of planning in L2 Spanish oral narratives
This study reports on an experiment in which a group of 14 American learners of Spanish as a foreign language performed two monologic pro...
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...
Na Mea Ulu Hawai‘i/Ka Makani/Ka Wa‘a
Three separate resource units cover the topics "Hawaiian plants", "wind", and "canoes." In addition to authentic Hawaiian language ...
Performance and portfolio assessment (1985–1995): An extended annotated bibliography of sources useful for language teachers
This bibliography offers a collection of extended article summaries drawn from the performance and portfolio assessment literature of the...
Attention and awareness in foreign language learning
Issues related to the role of attention and awareness in learning lie at the heart of many theoretical and practical controversies in the...
Language learning strategies around the world: Cross-cultural perspectives
Language learning strategies are the specific steps students take to improve their progress in learning a second or foreign language. Opt...
Pragmatik im Fremdsprachenunterricht [Pragmatics in foreign language teaching]
Pragmatic competence has long been recognized as an important component of communicative competence. How can foreign language instruction...
Hawaiian Immersion Curriculum Development Project
This is a preview of a 1996 video documenting the progress of the project "Model Hawaiian Immersion Curriculum."
The role of phonological coding in reading Kanji: A research report and some pedagogical implications
Results and pedagogical implications of a study which she conducted on phonological coding in reading kanji using an eye-movement ...
Mandarin Chinese: Four-year instructional goals, curriculum outline, and institutional measures
This curriculum outline includes student profiles, objectives, and an instructional outline for a Chinese language core program which uti...
Virtual connections: Online activities and projects for networking language learners
Computer networking has created dramatic new possibilities for connecting language learners in a single classroom or across the globe. Th...
Developing prototypic measures of cross-cultural pragmatics
Although the study of cross-cultural pragmatics has gained importance in applied linguistics, there are no standard forms of assessment t...
Pragmatics of Chinese as native and target language
This technical report includes six contributions to the study of the pragmatics of Mandarin Chinese:*A report of an interview study cond...
Korean proficiency guidelines
Booklet plus two video tapes contain Korean oral proficiency guidelines for speaking listening, reading, and writing, as well as ...
Asian role play cards (Chinese)
These cards provide task-based role play situations for teaching and testing in East Asian cultural contexts. Specific sets have been ...
A bibliography of pedagogy and research in interpretation and translation
This volume includes four types of bibliographic information on translation and interpretation studies: Research efforts across discipl...
Asian role play cards (Korean)
These cards provide task-based role play situations for teaching and testing in East Asian cultural contexts. Specific sets have been ...
Asian role play cards (Japanese)
These cards provide task-based role play situations for teaching and testing in East Asian cultural contexts. Specific sets have been ...
A framework for testing cross-cultural pragmatics
This volume presents a framework for developing methods which assess cross-cultural pragmatic ability. Although the framework has been de...
Supplementary materials for conversational Tagalog (student book+reading text)
This collection of graded authentic reading materials, along with grammar and vocabulary exercises, has been prepared for students of Tag...
Pragmatics of Japanese as native and target language
This technical report includes three contributions to the study of the pragmatics of Japanese: A bibliography on speech act performance...
Research methods in interlanguage pragmatics
DISCONTINUED: for info contact mastersn@hawaii.edu This technical report reviews the methods of data collection employed in 39 studies o...
Samoan language for health care providers
This beginning text emphasizes vocabulary and conversation in the health care environment. Included are basic Samoan lessons, topical ...