Languages

The NFLRC resources for languages are extensive and reach back many years. Use the filters below or search for a specific language you are interested in.

Method Comparison Analysis Examining the Relationship Between Linguistic Tone, Melodic Tune, and Sung Performances of Children’s Songs in Chicahuaxtla Triqui: Findings and Implications for Documentary Linguistics and Indigenous Language Communities

by A. Raymond Elliott

Sample content from Language Documentation & Conservation. Tap to read on!

PBLL in Action: Professional Learning & Research

PBLL in Action is a two-part initiative by the NFLRC that supports language teachers in designing high-quality Project-Based Language ...

Online Korean

Thanks to a partnership between the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the ...

Pragmatics & language learning, volume 15

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2022 international Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference.

Publishing Success: Insights from Journal Editors (3-Session series)

This special series is organized by the Center for Language & Technology (CLT) and the National Foreign Language Resource Center ...

2025 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in Action Summer Institute

At various points in our lives, we each find ourselves immersed in experiences that move us in deeply powerful ways, inspiring ...

Project Manager for Online Korean Course Development

The National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the Center for Urban Language Teaching ...

Discontinuing X

Aloha! The NFLRC will be discontinuing its X account on October 16, 2024. If you’d like to continue receiving NFLRC social media ...

8th Foreign Language Education and Technology (FLEAT) Conference

It’s time to mark your calendar for June 25 – 28, 2025 for the FLEAT 8 conference in Hawaiʻi! IALLT and the Japan Association for ...

2024 OLP Series: Russian Online Language Pedagogy

Developed for in-service teachers teaching Russian online, this year’s OLP series highlights themes related to adapting materials ...

9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Navigating New Realities in Diaspora Communities

The 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) March 6-8, 2025 Navigating ...

Intensive Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Design Studio

The Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Design Studio is a professional learning program offered by the National Foreign ...

Mastering Mentoring: Conversations with Accomplished Mentors

The Mastering Mentoring: Conversations with Accomplished Mentors series provides a valuable resource, addressing, in particular, the ...

Teaching and Learning Languages in the United States (TELL-US) podcast series

The NFLRC is pleased to announce our new Teaching and Learning Languages in the United States (TELL-US) podcast series. This ...

2024 SWCOLT/HALT Conference

The Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) is a regional world language teachers' organization that hosts ...

Teacher Portfolio & Preparation Series (TiPPS)

TiPPS is designed to help future language educators prepare for the job market they will face upon graduation. 8 Module, 19 lessons - ...

2023 OLP Series: Chinese Online Language Pedagogy

3-day Chinese Online Language Pedagogy (OLP) summer workshop Digital badge & CEU credit available Monday, June 26 | ...

ISMIL 26 / ISLOJ 9 Symposia

The Department of Linguistics and the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are pleased to ...

2023 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in Action Summer Institute

At various points in our lives, we each find ourselves immersed in experiences that move us in deeply powerful ways, inspiring ...

Envisioning PBLL

A 5-week open-enrollment MOOC for language educators beginning to learn about Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL). Successful ...

Fall 2022 NFLRC Graduate Assistant position

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a new NFLRC GA position and different from the other one advertised in August 2022. NFLRC Graduate ...

Congratulations to Stephen L. Tschudi on his retirement!

STEPHEN L. TSCHUDISpecialist in Technology for Language EducationCenter for Language & Technology,Language Flagship Technology ...

NFLRC Funding Continued to 2026

The University of Hawai‘i has again been selected to serve as one of a small number of national Language Resource Centers (LRC) ...

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 ...

8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Centering Justice in Language Work

The 8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) March 2-5, 2023 Conference ...

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 ...

Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Promote Achievement for All with Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)

In our two-part NFLRC Webinar titled Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Promote Achievement for All With Project-Based ...

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in World Languages

Expand your knowledge of Universal Design for Learning guided by experienced professionals in the field

Chinese Blended Learning Online Workshop

Calling all Chinese language teachers interested in blended learning! Have you ever wondered about "flipping" your classroom? ...

2022 Pragmatics & Language Learning (PLL) Conference

The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and the Center for Applied Second Language Studies ...

2022 OLP Series: Engaging Online Language Learners through SEL

This series will highlight how online language instructors can use the Social Emotional Learning Framework to engage students in the ...

31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS)

Call for Proposals deadline: January 3, 2022

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 ...

2021 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Summer Institute

2021 PBLL Summer Institute (Richmond, VA)

2021 Online Language Pedagogy Series: “Supporting Students in Online Language Learning: Voices of Experience”

Free resources open to the public starting May 1, 2021.

NFLRC Mentoring Program for Project Based Language Learning

Resources for Mentoring for PBLL

more...

Korean for professionals volume 5

The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...

Supporting Students in Online Language Learning: Voices of Experience

“Supporting Students in Online Language Learning: Voices of Experience” was developed for in-service online language teachers against ...

ACTFL DL SIG / NFLRC Mentoring Program for Online Language Teachers

more...

Online Language Pedagogy Resources

A collection of resources from the Online Language Pedagogy project.

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 ...

2020 NFLRC Webinars: Enacting Performance Assessment through Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)

In our two-part NFLRC Webinar titled Enacting Performance Assessments through Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL), we will explore ...

7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Recognizing Relationships

Recognizing Relationships The 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) University of Hawai‘i ...

Language Resource Centers

Explore free resources from 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers. Learn more about this program filling a critical need.

Our Kuleana

Celebrating 30 years in 2020, we at the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) dedicate ourselves to improving the learning ...

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 ...

Integrated Performance Assessments

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

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...

2020 Summer Institute: Planning for Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)

2020 Summer Institute

30th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) – Event Canceled

CANCELED: The 30th SEALS Conference has been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Map

NFLRC Privacy Disclosure Statement

Privacy Statement Your privacy is important to the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC). This privacy statement ...

History

NFLRC was among the first three Language Resource Centers established. The number has now grown to 16 centers nationwide...

2015 NFLRC/CLT Graduate Assistantship

Managing Editor for the Language Learning & Technology Journal Application Deadline: March 15, 2015 THE APPLICATION DEADLINE ...

NFLRC Funding Continued to 2018

The University of Hawai‘i has been selected to serve as one of a small number of national Language Resource Centers established to ...

Language Resource Center Brochure

NFLRC Badges

Get your NFLRC badge

NFLRC Listserv

Subscribe to the NFLRC News for our latest announcements on publications, events, and more!

Project-Based Language Learning: Promoting Child Literacy in Brazil

Meet Rachel Mamiya Hernandez who has applied principles of project-based learning (PBL) in a Portuguese language class.

2019 NFLRC/CLT Graduate Assistantship

Graduate Assistant, Center for Language & Technology (CLT) and National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC), College of ...

With Aloha and Appreciation for Dick Schmidt

It is with great sadness that we announce that Dr. Richard (Dick) Schmidt passed away on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Dick was the ...

Support the ACTFL PBLL Special Interest Group (SIG)

NFLRC Funding Continued to 2022

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 ...

NFLRC Short Course: Intersections Between High-Leverage Teaching Practices (HLTPs) and Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)

Explore the intersections between HLTPs & PBLL

NFLRC @ 2019 ACTFL Conference

Going to ACTFL 2019 in Washington DC? Come join us!

2019 Selecting and Adapting Materials for Online Language Learning and Teaching

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

Korean for professionals volume 4

The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...

2019 Summer Institute: Exploring Project-Based Language Learning

2019 Summer Institute

Exploring Project-based Language Learning

2019 Summer Institute

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 ...

2019 NFLRC Webinars: Harnessing High-Leverage Teaching Practices (HLTPs) in Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)

Interested in the intersections between HLTPs and PBLL? Join our webinar!

High-Leverage Teaching Practices

Expand your knowledge of HLTPs guided by experienced professionals in the field.

6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (2019)

ICLDC 6: Connecting Communities, Languages & Technology

The NFLRC Team @ ACTFL 2018

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

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 ...

4th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition (CILC4): Educational Enskillment, Event, and Ecology (2018)

Call for Abstracts deadline: February 1, 2018.

Blended Learning

Explore the potential of blended learning

PEBBLES

A curated collection of projects developed and implemented by world language professionals.

Online Language Pedagogy Modules Project

Participate in our survey - extended deadline November 4, 2020!

Summer Institutes for Professional Development

NFLRC has carried out summer institutes since 1991, providing training and professional development for K-16 language educators on conten...

Korean for professionals volume 3

The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...

2018 Pragmatics in Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Intensive Summer Institute

2018 Summer Institute

2018 PBLL Intensive Summer Institute Designer Badge

more...

Beyond a Limited Scope: Chinese for Specific, Academic, & Professional Purposes (超越有限视界：特殊、学术及专业用途汉语研究) (2018)

The 6th Business Chinese Workshop in Conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Business Chinese Education

2018 Fundamentals of Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Online Institute

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

2018 Online Symposium: Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)

On Jan 17-18, 2018, the PBLL Online Symposium will provide a free introductory forum on project-based language learning

2018 Fundamentals of PBLL Online Institute – Start page

more...

2018 Fundamentals of PBLL: Badge Criteria

more...

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 ...

2017 Assessment in Online Language Courses

more...

2017 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Intensive Summer Institute: Pathways to PBLL

2017 Summer Institute

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

2017 International Society for Language Studies (ISLS)

The International Society for Language Studies, co-sponsored by the University Hawaii - Manoa, will hold a conference from June 15-17, ...

5th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (2017)

5th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC): Linking Language & Wellbeing

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 ...

2017 Fundamentals of Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Online Institute

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

2017 Online Symposium: The Power of Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)

On Jan 11-12, 2017, the PBLL Online Symposium will provide a free forum on the power of project-based language learning

2017 Fundamentals of PBLL: Badge Criteria

more...

2017 Fundamentals of PBLL Online Institute – Start page

more...

The NFLRC Team @ ACTFL 2016

Going to the 2016 ACTFL Conference in Boston? Come see Online Language Pedagogy and Project-Based Language Learning presentations by ...

Project-Based Language Learning Workshop (2016)

more...

2016 Materials Development for Online Language Courses

more...

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 ...

2016 Project-Based Language Learning & Interculturality Intensive Summer Institute

2016 Summer Institute

2016 PBLL Intensive Summer Institute Designer Badge

more...

The NFLRC team @ CALICO 2016

Going to the 2016 CALICO Conference at Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)? The NFLRC team will be there with 4 exciting ...

2016 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT)

The Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) comes to Hawai‘i in 2016

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

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

2016 Fundamentals of PBLL: Badge Criteria

more...

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

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

The NFLRC Team @ ACTFL 2015

Going to ACTFL 2015? Come see our 6 exciting presentations related to Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) and Online Language Pedagogy!

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 ...

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

In a Word

2015 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in Action Intensive Summer Institute

2015 Summer Institute

2015 PBLL Intensive Summer Institute Designer Badge

more...

4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (2015)

The 4th ICLDC, “Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application,” was held February 26-March 3, 2015

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

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

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

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 ...

Design-Based Research

Design-based research (DBR) is an approach to research that is particularly suitable to improve processes ...

Dissemination

The primary NFLRC vehicles for dissemination are its publications division and NFLRC-hosted conferences, symposia, workshops, and ISIs ...

Intensive Summer Institutes

NFLRC has carried out summer institutes since 1991, providing training and professional development for K-16 language educators ...

Pragmatics and Second Language Learning

The NFLRC has carried out numerous research projects concerning the pragmatic aspects of second language use and learning, a number ...

PBLL Curriculum Development

Curriculum development initiatives, including efforts to create new curriculum or redesign courses for Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, ...

Online Professional Development

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

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 ...

PBLL Teacher Badge

more...

PBLL Implementer Badge

more...

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 ...

Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) Summer Institute (2013)

2013 Summer Institute

3rd International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Sharing Worlds of Knowledge (2013)

The 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), “Sharing Worlds of Knowledge,” will be h...

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...

Assessments for Japanese Language Instruction (2012)

2012 Summer Institute

International Symposium on Chinese Linguistics & Language Teaching (2012)

Linguistics is concerned with discovering and defining the form and structure of languages. Recent achievements in Chinese linguistics in...

7th International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21st Century (TCLT7) (2012)

Co-sponsored with Hamilton College, the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the National Resource Center East Asia (NRC...

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 ...

Online Learning Communities for Less Commonly Taught Languages (2011)

2011 Summer Institute

2nd International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Strategies for Moving Forward (2011)

The 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), "Strategies for Moving Forward," will be held Februa...

Foreign Language Outcomes Assessment and Program Evaluation

Foreign language (FL) educators are asked to engage in evaluation of many kinds and for many reasons, such as traditional program reviews...

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...

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...

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...

Online Summer Institute for Non-native Teachers of Chinese & Japanese (2009)

2009 Summer Institute

1st International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Supporting Small Languages Together (2009)

The 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation will be held at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa from March...

Second Language Research Forum 2008

With the theme, Exploring SLA: Perspectives, Positions, and Practices, SLRF returns to UH Mānoa for the third time.v This year, we invest...

Teaching Assistant Survival Society (TASS) (2008-2017)

TASS is an informal professional development forum for language Teaching Assistants

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

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...

Online Cafés for Heritage Learners of Filipino, Japanese, Samoan, and Chinese (2008)

2008 Summer Institute

2nd International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching (2007)

Researchers and educators from around the world will gather at University of Hawaiʻi to learn from one another’s innovations in tas...

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

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...

Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Summer Seminar West (2007)

Chairs of foreign language departments from across the U.S. will meet at the University of Hawaiʻi for an intensive (and fun!) exchange o...

Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs (2007)

2007 Summer Institute

17th International Conference on Pragmatics & Language Learning (2007)

The conference addresses a broad range of topics in pragmatics, discourse, interaction and sociolinguistics in their relation to second a...

Filipino as a Global Language: Future Directions & Prospects (2007)

The conference will be a venue for bringing together scholars, writers, language teachers, researchers and other practitioners from aroun...

NAKEM Centennial Conference (2006)

The conference is aimed to bring into focus the various critical practices of the Ilokanos in the United States, the Philippines, and oth...

Conversation Analysis Seminar: L2 Learning as Discursive Practice (2006)

Conversation Analysis (CA) is increasingly adopted to examine second language interactions as sites for and evidence of L2 learning as a ...

Language Documentation

By some estimates, there are roughly 6,900 languages currently spoken on earth, approximately half of which are spoken in the countries ...

Online Cafes for Heritage Learners of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and Samoan

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

Foreign Language Program Evaluation

College and university foreign language (FL) programs are asked to engage in evaluation of many kinds and for many reasons, such as trad...

CHILDES/SLA-Web

This project has two parts. Part one is a project initiated by the University of Oregon and funded by a Title VI IRS grant to make data ...

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...

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 ...

Pragmatics in the CJK Classroom (2006)

The University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa National Resource Center East Asia in conjunction with the National Foreign Language Resource Center at t...

CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) 2006

CALICO 2006 will again feature uses of cutting edge technologies in foreign language teaching and learning with a focus on collaboration....

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 ...

Designing Effective Foreign Language Placement Tests (2005)

2005 Summer Institute

Designing Effective Foreign Language Placement Tests (2005)

It is not uncommon for instructors in a language program to find themselves confronted with the need to oversee, create, or revise a plac...

Cultural Diversity & Language Education Conference (2004)

This conference focuses on theories, policies, and practices associated with cultural and language diversity in educational contexts. The...

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...

Distance Education, Distributed Learning and Language Instruction (2004)

Language education has been revolutionized by the availability of electronic resources. The boundaries between distance education and tra...

FAGASA (2004)

From July 5 through July 9, 2004, the National Foreign Language Resource Center played host to the 13th annual conference of the Associat...

COTIM (Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian & Malay) Pre-Institute Teacher Training Workshop (2004)

The COTIM (Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian & Malay) Pre-Institute Teacher Training Workshoptook place May 31-June 4, 2004 at Un...

AFAP (Advanced Filipino Abroad Program) Pre-Institute Teacher Training Workshop (2004)

The AFAP (Advanced Filipino Abroad Program) Pre-Institute Teacher Training Workshop took place May 24-28, 2004 at De La Salle University,...

NFLRC/COTSEAL Workshop: New Visions for Southeast Asian Language Teaching (2004)

The 27 workshop participants who attended this workshop represented a range of national stakeholders in the teaching and learning of Sout...

2004 Southeast Asian pedagogy workshops

NFLRC sent workshop leaders to in-country programs for advanced American learners of Southeast Asian languages inCambodia, Indonesia, th...

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...

Corpus Linguistics for Korean Language Learning and Teaching (2003)

2003 Summer Institute

COTIM (Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian & Malay) Pre-Institute Teacher Training Workshop (2004)

The COTIM (Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian & Malay) Pre-Institute Teacher Training Workshop took place June 3-9, 2003 at Univer...

CLAN for Conversation Analysis (2003)

Conversation Analysis (CA) needs more than good transcriptions. Immediate access to sound and/or video data at all times is essential for...

2003 Southeast Asian pedagogy workshops

A series of teacher training workshops will be conducted for faculty teaching at advanced study abroad programs in Southeast Asia. Worksh...

Web-Based Workshops for Advanced Reading & Writing Development & Maintenance (2002)

For the second year, NFLRC Hawaiʻi repeats its 2 two-week intensive language courses for non-native-speaking teachers currently or immine...

Continuation of the journal <i>Language Learning & Technology</i> (2002-2006)

Continuation of the journal Language Learning & Technology (2002-2006)

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

Corpus Linguistics for Language Teaching and Learning

Readily available collections of written or spoken language and easy-to-use analytical tools offer exciting possibilities for using the t...

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...

Elicited Imitation as an Oral Proficiency Measure

This project will develop elicited imitation, sometimes referred to as "sentence repetition," as a standardized measurement instrument of...

Interactive Web-Based Performance Tests

project proposed but not funded or implementedAn innovative aspect of the foreign language assessment project during the 1999–02 grant cy...

Conversation Analysis as an Approach to Second Language Acquisition

This project uses the analytical tools of Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine the learning activities afforded by different activities ...

Reading in a Foreign Language

Reading in a Foreign Language is a refereed international journal of issues in foreign language reading and literacy, published twice yea...

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...

Heritage Language Education

NFLRC is cooperating with the University of Hawai`i Center for Second Language Research in supporting the development of heritage languag...

Assessment Scales in Foreign Language Testing

project proposed but not funded or implementedThis testing project involves research into how assessment scales are developed and applied...

Issues in Placement

This testing project involves the development of a manual of best practices in placement in modern language programs. The focus is placed...

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...

Ia Faalautele Lau Gagana Samoan Pedagogy Institute (2002)

2002 Summer Institute

Heritage Learners and National Language Needs (2002)

This two-day symposium provides practical information, theoretical considerations, and program/curriculum models for language education t...

‘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...

Korean Pedagogy Workshop: Task-Based Language Teaching (2001)

The opening session of this three-day summer institute willprovide an overview of the rationale for Task-Based Language Teaching(TBLT) ...

Web-Based Workshops for Advanced Reading & Writing Development & Maintenance (2001)

NFLRC Hawaiʻi offers 2 two-week intensive language courses to non-native-speaking teachers currently or imminently in service teaching Ch...

Developing Web-Based Foreign Language Learning Environments (2001)

2001 Summer Institute

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 ...

Performance-based Chinese Language Instruction (2000)

2000 Summer Institute

Computer-based Tests for Less Commonly Taught Languages (2000)

2000 Summer Institute

2017 PBLL Intensive Summer Institute Designer Badge

more...

Hawaiʻi Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Spring Conference

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

2016 Fundamentals of PBLL Online Institute – Start page

more...

2015 Fundamentals of PBLL (Option 1)

more...

Center for Language & Technology

The Language Learning Center (LLC) offers workshops each semester to enhance language teaching and learning in the College of ...

2015 Fundamentals of PBLL: Badge Criteria

more...

Advanced East Asian Courses Online

The NFLRC offers distance learning opportunities in advanced Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language via the World Wide Web on an ongoing ...

2015 Fundamentals of PBLL (Option 2)

more...

NFLRC National Conference Presentations

Our annual presentations at ACTFL & CALICO

Task-based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Education

The purpose of this project is two-fold: (i) to design, implement, and evaluate a prototype task-based language teaching (TBLT) program f...

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 ...

Disseminating Technology-based Models for Distance Education in Critical Languages

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

Teaching the Pragmatics of Indonesian as a Foreign Language

The NFLRC will develop materials, activities, and strategies for teaching the pragmatics of Indonesian as a foreign language (IFL). The p...

Continuation of the journal <i>Language Learning & Technology</i> (1999-2002)

Continuation of the journal Language Learning & Technology (1999-2002)

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

Community-based Service Learning in Heritage Languages

This project focuses on Mandarin Chinese as a prototypical heritage language and brings ethnic undergraduate students and members of the ...

Drawing on Community Language Resources to Improve Foreign Language Education (K-12)

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

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...

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 ...

Self-Directed Learning: Materials & Strategies (1999)

1999 Summer Institute

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...

Advancing Language Immersion Education: Pacific Perspectives & International Applications (1998)

Drawing on the dynamic successes of language immersion programs in the Pacific, the 1998 Summer Institute united experts from East and We...

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 ...

Foreign Language Instruction via Distance Education (1997)

WORKSHOP - July 7-18, 1997: "Tools and Techniques for Foreign Language Instruction via Interactive Television"This two-week workshop tra...

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...

Sociolinguistics and Cross-cultural Pragmatics

A recent review of studies on interlanguage pragmatics (Kasper & Schmidt, 1996) documented that pragmatic development in adult nonnative ...

Pragmatic Development and the Instruction of Pragmatics in the Japanese as a Foreign Language Classroom

Nonnative speakers' sociolinguistic and pragmatic competence has been a research focus of the University of Hawai‘i faculty for a number ...

Action Research and the Preparation of Foreign Language Teachers

The teaching of foreign languages at the post-secondary level increasingly reflects an interest in developing communicative proficiency, ...

Performance and Portfolio Assessment

The purpose of this project is to develop alternative methods of language testing that will be appropriate for assessing communicative an...

Computerized Testing Protocol for Mandarin Chinese

Professor Tao-Chung (Ted) Yao was hired at the University of Hawai‘i in 1995 to serve as the overall language program coordinator for the...

A Multi-Language Comparison of Syntactic Complexity Measures and Their Relationship to Foreign Language Oral Proficiency

Joint project with the University of Melbourne and Kwansei Gakuin University, with the collaboration of the Center for Applied Linguistic...

Foreign Language Partnership

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

East Asian Role Plays

A team consisting of David Hiple (NFLRC), Kyoko Hijirida (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Soo-ah Kim Yuen (East Asian Languages & Li...

Model Hawaiian Immersion Curriculum

Work is underway to establish a model program for developing Hawaiian language immersion materials . Joint cooperation with native speake...

Evaluative Criteria for Computer-Delivered Language Learning Systems

This NFLRC project will result in the development of evaluative criteria for the design, selection, and utilization of computer-delivered...

Assessment of Cross-cultural Pragmatics

There are numerous existing methods for measuring grammatical and textual competence (syntax, vocabulary, cohesion, etc.), but no general...

<i>Language Learning & Technology</i>: Online Journal

Language Learning & Technology: Online Journal

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

Negative Feedback in Adult L2 Development

This project investigated the relative effectiveness of models and corrective recasts on adult learners' language development. Recasts ar...

Self-Instruction

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

Explicit and Implicit Factors in Foreign Language Learning

Controversies concerning the relative contribution of explicit and implicit factors in foreign language learning have always been core is...

Second Language Development in Writing: Measures of Fluency, Accuracy, and Complexity

In this project, we analyzed and compared the ways that fluency, accuracy, grammatical complexity, and lexical complexity have been measu...

Language Immersion

This initiative builds on a series of interrelated language immersion projects currently (see http://www.uatuahine.hawaii.edu/hana/Ittp/...

Reading Kanji

Professor Matsunaga carried out a study exploring the extent to which native speakers of Japanese associate kanji (Chinese characters) wi...

Distance Education

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

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...

New Technologies & Less Commonly Taught Languages (1996)

1996 Summer Institute

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...

Technology and the Human Factor in Foreign Language Education (1995)

1995 Summer Institute

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 ...

Hypermedia Kanji City

The Kanji City Project began as an exploration of hypertext and hypermedia as a new environment for language education and training. Trad...

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...

Chinese Curriculum Project

This continuing research project involves development and refinement of a Mandarin Chinese curriculum for the first through fourth years ...

Korean Language and Culture Materials

For six weeks in July and August of 1993, nine American musicians, educators, and scholars participated in the first annual Summer Instit...

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 ...