Professional Organizations
Professional organizations set standards for learners, teachers, and programs, but they also provide a lot of resources and give you ways to connect with others and share your work.
Look at the big national and international organizations, but also look for your regional and state organizations for foreign language teaching, national and local organizations for each language (the “AATs” in the U.S.), organizations that are relevant to your context like CBHLS, and the national Language Resource Centers around the U.S., which each have a different focus.
Comprehensive lists of organizations:
- Language Consortium – Master List of Language-Specific Organizations
- America’s Languages Portal > Language Organizations
- ACTFL – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Council of Europe – CEFR – Common European Framework of Reference
- AAAL – American Association for Applied Linguistics
- MLA – Modern Language Association
- Consortium of Community Based Heritage Language Schools
Remote Learning and Teaching
If you want to see a list of language teaching resources specifically for remote and online learning:
- Go to Instructional Technology page
If you want to see recommendations that went out to teachers in Spring 2020… and are still useful today:
- Blog post: Tech-Savvy FL Teachers Recommend
- Blog post: Keep Teaching FLT for Proficiency
Language Learning Resources at MSU
MSU Library Research Guide to Language Learning Resources
National Foreign Language Resource Centers
There are Title IV language resource centers all over the U.S., each specializing in different languages and aspects of language teaching and learning. This page provides introductions to all of them, as well as a search engine that accesses resources from all of them:
Open Educational Resources
COERLL Language Resource Center at the University of Texas at Austin
These two links go to terrific summaries of OER language teaching resources, many of them curated and highly searchable:
- Availability of Foreign Language Materials in OER Repositories (COERLL blog)
- Introduction to OER – Modules in Canvas by COERLL
FLLITE Project
Foreign Language Literacy in the Everyday
The FLLITE Approach (project sponsored by COERLL and CERCLL)
