The NCOLCTL Conference

The 15th National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) Annual Conference will be held in Madison, WI on April 26-29, 2012. The theme of the conference will be "Promoting Advanced Language Proficiency and Intercultural Competency in LCTL's.

On offer at the conference will be professional development workshops for proffesionals working in the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) field, along with keynote presentations from various experts in the field. Scholars will also be afforded an opportunity to present papers in various areas which include methodology, curriculum, technology, L2 research, testing and assessment, teacher training and development and other innovations in the realm of LCTLs.
The NCOLCTL general assembly will meet for their annual meeting and the Walton Award will be presented to an outstanding contributor to LCTLs at this conference.

                         About NCOLCTL

NCOLCTL's mission is to increase the number of Americans who choose to learn one or more of the less commonly taught languages as a means of enhancing cross-cultural communication among citizens of the United States. NCOLCTL's work focuses on the less commonly taught languages which are becoming increasingly vital to the security, economic, social and political welfare of the United States. NCOLCTL seeks to improve the teaching and learning of these languages and to make them more generally available. NCOLCTL is the national voice for organizations and individuals who represent the teaching of these less commonly taught languages at both the collegiate and precollegiate level. NCOLCTL also promotes the use of technology, especially computers and the Internet, to enable a new era in cross-cultural understanding, communication, and language education.

NCOLCTLl constitutes a national mechanism devoted to strengthening the less commonly taught language professions through enabling its members to work toward "shared solutions to common problems." NCOLCTL principally directs its efforts toward building a national architecture for the LCTL field and in making the field's resources easily accessible to language programs and individual learners around the United States.

Learn More at www.ncolctl.org

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