Partners

The Utah Foreign Language Association exists to promote the learning of world languages and cultures in the state of Utah and beyond. Specifically, the mission of UFLA is to support world language teaching and acquisition at all academic levels, including traditional instruction and dual language immersion programs.

The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) promotes the study and teaching of the Spanish and Portuguese languages and their corresponding Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and other related literatures and cultures at all levels of education. The AATSP encourages, supports and directs programs and research projects involving the exchange of pedagogical and scholarly information.

SCOLT envisions an inclusive multilingual society that values language and culture as core components of the educational experience at all levels and fosters impactful World Language education for all learners by connecting and empowering language educators.

The AATF is the only national association devoted exclusively to the needs of French teachers at all levels. Our community of French educators at all levels works to promote and defend French programs, create and disseminate useful materials for the classroom, and provide opportunities to recognize professional excellence and student achievement.

The Southwest Conference on Language Teaching is a regional world language teachers’ organization that hosts an annual conference in partnership with state world language teacher associations. The purposes of the organization is disseminating and publicizing information, data, and materials which promote, develop, and enhance the study and teaching of languages together with their literatures and cultures.

PNCFL – Pacific Northwest Council For Languages – advocates for the value of world languages as a core curriculum and supports language policies that reflect this ideal. In order to foster professional growth among language educators, PNCFL connects them at regional and national levels. PNCFL inspires world language educators to improve instruction for all students through professional development and leadership opportunities.

Empowering all educators through meaningful opportunities that advance the teaching, learning, and understanding of languages and cultures, the Central States Conference envisions a global community where people are willing and able to connect with others.

The Ohio Foreign Language Association is committed to articulated, standards-based world language and culture study beginning in the primary grades, so that every learner, from early childhood through adulthood, acquires a high level of language proficiency and intercultural competence.

The New York State Association for Language Teachers was founded in 1917.  Its purpose was, and remains, to serve the needs of the profession dedicated to the development of second language skills and cultural awareness among students. NYSAFLT exists to promote the acquisition of languages and the exploration of cultural products, practices, and perspectives, as well as to support articulation at all levels of instruction.

It is the mission of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina to promote opportunities for all students from kindergarten through post graduate studies to develop a high level of competence in at least one language in addition to their own; to provide leadership, support and service to those committed to language learning; and to coordinate the efforts of all those involved in education to make language learning in programs of excellence a reality for all.

The AATG promotes the study of the German-speaking world in all its linguistic, cultural and ethnic diversity, and endeavors to prepare students as transnational, transcultural learners and active, multilingual participants in a globalized world.

ALTA aims to develop a culture of African language teaching where its members can share common interests and concerns having to do with the study of African languages and to link and consolidate efforts of government, teachers, administrators, students and researchers involved in the teaching of African languages.

The American Association of Teachers of Japanese is a non-profit, non-political organization of individuals and institutions seeking to promote the study of Japanese language, linguistics, literature, culture, and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction. AATJ fosters professional development, the promotion of Japanese and foreign language education, and the exchange of research, and seeks to coordinate its activities with related organizations to promote Japanese studies, including a network of state and regional affiliate organizations.

The Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocacy for the study and teaching of languages and cultures. While the majority of our members are educators of all levels (K-20) and all languages, we welcome anyone who supports our vision and mission to become a member.

The Northeast Conference serves educators in all languages, at all levels from kindergarten through university, in both public and private settings. In existence since the late 1940s, The Northeast Conference is the largest of five regional associations of its kind in the United States, representing educators from Maine to Virginia but exercising leadership nation-wide.

FLAVA is the Foreign Language Association of Virginia, a growing, dynamic organization of professionals in education and business, students, and all those who have a common interest in promoting and utilizing world languages to accomplish their various goals.

The Michigan World Language Association (MIWLA) is an organization for all elementary, secondary, college, and university teachers, supervisors, students, and friends of world languages. MIWLA endorses and seeks to achieve the following goals:

• Promote and strengthen world language study at all levels.
• Promote public awareness of the importance and value of world language study.
• Assist in providing professional development for teachers of world languages at all levels.

FLENJ advances and promotes the teaching of world languages in the state of New Jersey. To accomplish this, we work to bring about improvements in areas of concern for world language educators, such as: teacher training, articulation at all levels, and curriculum development.

Since its founding in 1980, the AAUSC has worked to promote, improve, and strengthen foreign language and second language instruction in the US; strengthen development programs for teaching assistants, teaching fellows, associate instructors, or their equivalents; promote research in second language acquisition and on the preparation and supervision of teaching assistants; and establish a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, and materials among those concerned with language program direction.

CLTA’s mission is to REIMAGINE world language education through inspired leadership; CREATE AND SUPPORT powerful world language programs and services designed to promote multilingualism, multiculturalism, and global readiness as defining features of transformative education; and ADVOCATE for policies that move our vision to action.

NCOLCTL represents the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) in the United States. More specifically, its website is designed to address the communication and information needs of the members of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), as well as those of other organizations, institutions, and individuals interested in the teaching and learning of the LCTLs in the United States.