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Language Connects Foundation Announces Inaugural Board of Directors
This inaugural Board includes individuals with decades of experience in education, language policy, business, and beyond who will serve as champions of the transformative power of language learning.
ACTFL Celebrates Achievement in Language Education
ACTFL and Language Connects Foundation (LCF) are pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the ACTFL & LCF Professional Awards, an annual program in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of language education.
ACTFL Awards 2024 National Language Teacher of the Year
ACTFL is honored to announce Alicia Dallman Shoemaker as the 2024 National Language Teacher of the Year.
ACTFL Introduces new 2024 Board Members
ACTFL is pleased to announce the 2024 newly elected and appointed members to its Board of Directors.
Class Size as a Factor Influencing Language Learning
It is evident that class size impacts a multitude of factors related to teacher efficacy and student success across all disciplines, including K-20 World Language education. Communication is at the core of the World-Readiness Standards and students are learning to interact with cultural competence, connect with other disciplines, and use the language to investigate and interact in order to participate in multilingual communities. Maintaining smaller class sizes has a positive effect on student achievement and satisfaction.
Remote Assessment for World Language Teaching and Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to many ongoing inequities in education and has raised various challenges for assessing student progress in remote, in-person, and hybrid learning environments. Ensuring learners’ access to online learning and assessments remains a high priority. The myriad challenges of connecting to remote assessments and health, safety, and other considerations for in-person assessments show the complexity of assessment.
Diversity and Inclusion In World Language Teaching & Learning
ACTFL values diversity and strives for inclusion across world language teaching and learning contexts. It is committed to continuous reflection and evaluation of its specific practices and initiatives to promote access, anti-bias, diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism. ACTFL believes strongly in equal access to world language study and equitable opportunities for all individuals to develop linguistic and cultural competence and pedagogical knowledge. No individual should experience marginalization of their contributions or talents because of their unique attributes.
The Role of Technology in Language Learning
ACTFL strongly recommends that a language educator be responsible for the planning, instruction, assessment, and facilitation of any language course, leveraging technology to support language learning. Language instruction is best guided by language educators rather than solely delivered via a computer program or by a non-content specialist.
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