Resources

Further Reading

Sources Cited in the Module

American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 1983. ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. Revised 1985. Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: ACTFL Materials Center

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 1996. Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the 21st Century. National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project.

Lave, Jean and Etienne Wenger (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Scott, Virginia M. (ed.). 2009. Principles and Practices of the Standards in College Foreign Language Education. AAUSC Issues in Language Program Direction. Heinle.

Language Teaching Methods Textbooks

Brandl, K. 2009. Communicative Language Teaching in Action. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Brown, H. D. (2006). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. Pearson.

Horwitz, E. (2007). Becoming a Language Teacher: A Practical Guide to Second Language Learning and Teaching. Allyn & Bacon.

Lee, J. and B. VanPatten. (2003). Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen. McGraw-Hill.

Omaggio Hadley, A. (2000). Teaching Language in Context. Heinle.

Richards, J. and T. S. Rogers. (2001). Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.

Shrum, J. and E. Glisan. (2009). Teacher's Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction. Heinle.

Professional Organizations for Language Teachers

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
http://www.aaal.org

American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA)
http://www.aataweb.org

American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
http://www.frenchteachers.org

American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
http://www.aatg.org

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
http://www.aatseel.org

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
http://www.aatsp.org

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
http://www.actfl.org

American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC)
http://www.aausc.org

Association of Departments of Foreign Language (ADFL)
http://www.adfl.org

Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)
http://clta-us.org

Modern Language Association (MLA)
http://www.mla.org

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
http://www.tesol.org

The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning
http://consortium.dartmouth.edu

University of California Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching
http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu