From 2017 through 2019, STARTALK funded an infrastructure project to develop materials and resources to support an ever-growing number of dual language immersion programs.
Projects and initiatives
STARTALK offers tuition-free language learning courses for students and professional development opportunities for teachers in critical need languages and free resources for teachers of all languages.
PEARLL seeks to create a common vision for high-quality world language learning and develop new models of professional development and support materials for language educators.
A free resource with over 15,000 items in more than one hundred languages and dialects.
The TELL project empowers educators to take charge of their professional development toward effective world language teaching, through products and processes just for language teachers.
The NFLC offers customizable Advanced Language Courses for Government Service that range in length from 45 to 150 hours.
A desktop application to build, deliver and score multistep tests that can incorporate audio, video, images and text prompts
Resources
If you want language learning that goes beyond what is commonly taught in the classroom and want to encounter authentic materials from all corners of the globe, the National Foreign Language Center has something for you. We administer STARTALK, a national network of summer language programs for students from kindergarten to college in several less commonly taught languages. Upper-level students will find a wealth of videos, texts, and activities to help them learn more than one hundred languages.
From STARTALK, a national network of summer language programs created in partnership with the federal government, to our lessons and materials in more than one hundred languages, the National Foreign Language Center has a wealth of programs, materials, and opportunities for teachers.
It is easy to find materials for you or your staff to learn more about French and Spanish. But what about lesser-known African and Asian languages? The National Foreign Language Center has materials to assess language levels and improve skills in more than one hundred languages from around the globe for professionals—and for anyone who loves learning languages. We also have training modules to help advance critical thinking and other domains.
