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

Headshot of Dr. Charlene Polio, editor of the NFLRC Monograph Second Language Development in Writing, which was ultimately canceled. She is smiling and wearing a lavender blouse.

    Charlene Polio

    Charlene Polio is the editor of the NFLRC Monograph Second Language Development in Writing. She is also the editor of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and professor in the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian, & African Languages at Michigan State University. Her main area of research is second language writing.