Funding YOUR LCTL PD Event! 

Are you organizing/hosting any professional development events, webinars, or workshops related to LCTLs? The NLRC supports such events through its Collaborative Professional Development initiative.

Money can be used for speaker fees or for general sponsorship of an event like a webinar, workshop, or conference.

We expect funding for events to be in the $200-500 range per award. The next deadline for this academic year is December 15th!  

Find out more information on the Collaborative Professional Development page.

Meet the 2023-2024 ViVID Fellows! 

The Virtual Video-Based Inquiry for Development of Teachers of LCTLs (ViVID) Project is proud to introduce their 2023-2024 cohort! 

Representing languages from Hungarian to Japanese, the fellows teach at high schools, heritage language schools, and universities. 

Find out more on the 2023-2024 ViVID Fellows page and click on each of their profiles to learn more about them! 

Early Bird registration for SLCTLS and NCOLCTL!

MSU's long-standing collaborative symposium with the University of Chicago, the Shared LCTL Symposium will be held as a pre-conference event of the NCOLCTL Conference on April 18th. The topic of the keynote and panel is "Differentiated Instruction." 

Don't forget to register before December 15th for the best registration rates! 

We hope to see you there! 

NLRC Social Media Highlight

Holiday season is upon us! This past month, the NLRC celebrated the beginning Native American Heritage Month, as we remember and acknowledge the peoples, families, diasporas, and cultures that first called this land home, and we continue to provide resources that can be used for all languages, including for Indigenous languages. We also marked World Children’s Day and introduced several of our new NLRC student assistants! Make sure to follow our social media pages as we recognize more culturally significant days in the following months, such as Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas!  

Are you following our social media? Check us out!

• NLRC Facebook Page
• NLRC Twitter

LCTLs and Innovation: The MAFLT LCTL Innovation Awards

These awards recognize outstanding, innovative, and transformative uses of technology in the teaching of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs). Up to three prizes ranging between $250 and $500 will be awarded this year. 

Find out more and submit your application here by January 31st, 2024.

Oral Communicative Tasks

Engage in best practices for designing and facilitating synchronous and asynchronous oral communicative tasks for both presentational and interpersonal modes of instruction. Design scaffolded task progressions in order to meet all your language objectives in rigorous fashion. 

Spring session starts: January 29

Creating Engaging Materials

Develop in-depth expertise for developing engaging online materials. Build a portfolio of 3-6 sets of materials in a variety of domains of your choice (vocabulary or grammar, reading or listening, and culture or pragmatics) for use in your online or hybrid courses. 

Spring session starts: March 4

Purposeful Technology Integration

Explore novel and alternative technology-supported pedagogical approaches, identify technology-enabled practices with the most transformative potential, and design an intentional “new normal” for what language instruction might look like for you in the near future.

Spring session starts: April 1