Language Resource Center

The Language Resource Center (LRC) Program of the U.S. Department of Education, administered by the International Foreign Language Education Service under Title VI[1] of the Higher Education Act, funds grants to American universities for establishing, strengthening, and operating centers that serve as resources for improving the nation's capacity for teaching and learning foreign languages through teacher training, research, materials development, and dissemination projects.[2][3][4][5]

The common goal of the Language Resource Centers (LRCs) is to promote the learning and teaching of foreign languages in the United States through improving language teacher education, developing improved assessment measures, and conducting research. The US Department of Education established the first LRCs at US universities in 1990 in response to the growing national need for expertise and competence in foreign languages.[6] Led by nationally and internationally recognized language professionals, LRCs create language learning materials, offer professional development workshops, and conduct research on foreign language learning.

The Language Resource Centers created a common LRC Web Portal, which provides a searchable database to all of LRC the materials, resources, and professional development opportunities.

  1. ^ "International Education Programs Service - Title VI Programs: Building a US International Education Infrastructure". 7 December 2020.
  2. ^ U.S. Department of Education Language Resource Centers (2008). Language Resource Centers: Bringing Worlds Together. E. Lansing: Michigan State University. Downloadable at: (http://www.nflrc.org/)
  3. ^ Tarone, E. (2010). Impact of fifty years of Title VI on language learning in the U.S. In Wiley, D. & Glew, R. (eds.), Knowledge for the Nation’s Global Future: Fifth years of Title VI and Fulbright Hays Programs for Language and International Expertise in the U.S. East Lansing: Michigan State University.
  4. ^ Wiley, D. (2001). Forty years of the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays international education programs: Building the nation’s international expertise for a global future, in P. O’Meara, H. D. Mehlinger & R. Ma Newman (eds.), Changing Perspectives on International Education. (pp. 11–29) Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  5. ^ "Language Resource Centers | U.S. Department of Education". www.ed.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  6. ^ http://www.nflrc.org/lrc_broc_full.pdf Archived 2013-04-23 at the Wayback Machine PDF 14.1 MB