PROGRAM GUIDE - American Council on The Teaching of Foreign ...

ExPLANATION OF ACRONYmS
AAAL <strong>American</strong> Association for Applied Linguistics
AACC <strong>American</strong> Association of Community Colleges
AAPPL ACTFL Assessment Performance toward Proficiency in Languages
AATA <strong>American</strong> Association of Teachers of Arabic
AATF <strong>American</strong> Association of Teachers of French
AATG <strong>American</strong> Association of Teachers of German
AATI <strong>American</strong> Association of Teachers of Italian
AATJ <strong>American</strong> Association of Teachers of Japanese
AATSP <strong>American</strong> Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
AAUSC <strong>American</strong> Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators
ACE <strong>American</strong> <strong>Council</strong> on Education
ACL <strong>American</strong> Classical League
ACTFL <strong>American</strong> <strong>Council</strong> on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
ACTR <strong>American</strong> <strong>Council</strong> of Teachers of Russian
ADFL Association of Departments of Foreign Languages
AP Advanced Placement
APLS Association of Proprietary Language Schools
CAL Center for Applied Linguistics
CALICO Computer Assisted Learning Instruction Consortium
CALPER Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research
CARLA Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
CASL Center for the Advanced Study of Languages
CASLS Center for Applied Second Language Studies
CCNAA (Chinese) Coordination <strong>Council</strong> for North <strong>American</strong> Affairs
CCSSO <strong>Council</strong> of Chief State School Officers
CEFR Common European Framework of Reference
CeLCAR Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIEE <strong>Council</strong> on International Education Exchange
CLASS Chinese Language Association of Secondary–Elementary Schools
CLEAR Center for Language Education and Research
CLTA Chinese Language Teachers Association
CSCTFL Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
DLI Defense Language Institute
DoD Department of Defense
ELP European Language Portfolio
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FLAP Foreign Language Assistance Program
FLEA Foreign Language Exhibitors Association
FLES Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools
FLEX Foreign Language Exploratory/Experience Programs
FSI Foreign Service Institute
IALLT International Association of Language Learning Technologies
IB International Baccalaureate
ILR Interagency Language Roundtable
INTASC Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium
IPA Integrated Performance Assessment
JNCL- Joint National Committee for Languages-National <strong>Council</strong> for
NCLIS Languages and International Studies
LARC Language Acquisition Resource Center
LCTL Less Commonly Taught Language
LLC Language Learning for Children SIG
LTI Language Testing International
MLA Modern Language Association
MOPI Modified Oral Proficiency Interview (Workshop)
NABE National Association for Bilingual Education
NADSFL National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages
NAEP National Assessment of Educational Progress
NALRC National African Language Resource Center
NCACLS National <strong>Council</strong> of Associations of Chinese Language Schools
NCATE National <strong>Council</strong> for Accreditation of Teacher Education
NCLRC National Capital Language Resource Center
NCSSFL National <strong>Council</strong> of State Supervisors for Languages
NEALRC National East Asian Language Resource Center
NECTFL Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
NEH National Endowment for the Humanities
NFLC National Foreign Language Center
NFLRC National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center/National Foreign Language
Resource Center
NFMLTA National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations
NLRC National Language Resource Centers
NMELRC National Middle Eastern Language Resource Center
NNELL National Network for Early Language Learning
NSA National Security Agency
OPI Oral Proficiency Interview
OPIc Oral Proficiency Interview–computer
PNCFL Pacific Northwest <strong>Council</strong> for Languages
PSMLA Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association
SALRC South Asia Language Resource Center
SCOLT Southern Conference on Language Teaching
SEELRC Slavic and East European Language Resource Center
SIG Special Interest Group (ACTFL)
SWCOLT Southwest Conference on Language Teaching
TPR Total Physical Response
TPRS Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling
UbD Understanding by Design
WPT Writing Proficiency Test
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