Post-Secondary Resources
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Click for summaryThe Career Hub for International Language Learning (CHILL) provides a central location for multilingual students and those just starting a language to consider professions in which world language skills are particularly valued. Visualizing possible careers and the steps necessary to reach them from the first semester of college helps identify and develop the kinds of tools and experiences that lead naturally to professional success. |
Click for summaryThe ACTFL Proficiency Institute for Higher Education is a free three-day, in-person program for postsecondary language educators seeking to deepen their knowledge of designing proficiency-based content, learning and instruction. The program is recommended for professors who prepare students for language teacher licensure or language majors, as well as for language researchers. |
Click for summaryThe MLA’s comprehensive study describes lower- and upper-level undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English in fall 2021 reported by 2,455 AA-, BA-, MA-, and PhD-granting colleges and universities in the United States. |
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The AAUSC is a national professional organization that supports program direction, language instruction, teacher professional development, and research in U.S. postsecondary language departments. The AAUSC holds an annual business meeting that provides networking opportunities for language program directors (LPDs) and maintains a website with numerous resources for LPDs.
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This initiative equips new and future postsecondary language program directors (LPDs) with the knowledge and skills necessary to support their daily work.
Click for summaryCAEP-approved teacher preparation program standards in world languages reflect the profession’s expectations for the specific knowledge, skills, and dispositions that world language teachers should have as they enter our classrooms. These standards will enable the profession to monitor the quality of language teachers being certified by institutions throughout the country. The new, updated 2026 Standards will be released by ACTFL soon! |
Click for summarySecond Language Research and Practice (SLRP) is a fully refereed, open-access journal that is published annually in the fall. Grounded in the discipline of Applied Linguistics, the journal aims to disseminate scholarship on topics relevant to postsecondary language education and language program direction, for example program articulation, curriculum development, teacher professional development, student learning, and assessment. SLRP is designed to be inclusive of diverse professional backgrounds, including tenure- and non-tenure-track faculty and graduate students, to appeal to researchers and practitioners across the educational spectrum, and to represent a wide range of languages. |
