Professional+Organizations

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=**Professional Organizations for Chinese Teachers**= (Note: Many of these organizations host annual conferences, publish professional journals, and also have state and/or local chapters that sponsor activities for students and offer resources for teachers.)

Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools (CLASS) http://www.classk12.org/

Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) http://clta.osu.edu/

=**Language Resource Centers**= (Note: There are 14 National Language Resource Centers in the U.S. These centers typically offer access to high quality classroom resources, professional development opportunities, and research. The //Foreign Language Resource Centers// link will take you to a page that lists all of them.)

Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) - Michigan State University http://clear.msu.edu/

Foreign Language Resource Centers http://nflrc.msu.edu/

National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) - Iowa State University http://www.nflrc.iastate.edu/

=**National World Language Organizations**=

American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) http://www.aaal.org/

American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC) http://www.aausc.org/

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) [|http://www.actfl.org]

Modern Language Association (MLA) http://www.mla.org/

National Council of State Supervisors for Languages (NCSSFL) http://www.ncssfl.org/

National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL) http://www.nnell.org

= = =**Regional World Language Organizations**= (Note: These organizations typically host annual conferences.)

Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSC) http://www.centralstates.cc/

Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) http://www.northeastconference.org/ http://www.dickinson.edu/nectfl/

Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) http://www.nemla.org/

South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) http://www.ou.edu/scmla/

Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) http://www.valdosta.edu/scolt/

Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) http://www.swcolt.org/

= = =**State World Language Organizations**= (Note: Most states have a state world language association. These organizations typically hold annual or bi-annual conferences, publish and distribute bulletins or newsletters several times per year, and sponsor events for students. For a complete list of state world language association websites, visit: http://multilingualbooks.com/forlangassoc.html#state

Alaskans for Language Acquisition (AFLA) http://www.afla-alaska.org/

Connecticut Council of Language Teachers (CCLT) http://www.ctcolt.org/

Foreign Language Association of Missouri (FLAM) http://flamnet.org/

Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey (FLENJ) http://www.flenj.org/

Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association (IFLTA) http://www.iflta.org/

Iowa World Language Association (IWLA) http://www.iowawla.org/

Kansas World Language Association (KWLA) http://kfla.lawrence.com/

Kentucky World Language Association (KWLA) http://www.kwla-online.org/

Michigan World Language Association (MiWLA) [|http://www.miwla.org]

Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) http://www.flanc.org/

New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT) http://www.nysaflt.org/

Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching (COFLT) http://www.coflt.net/

Utah Foreign Language Association (UFLA) http://organizations.weber.edu/ufla/

=**Professional Listservs**= (and online communities)

FLTEACH http://www.cortland.edu/flteach

MACUL http://maculspace.ning.com/

Nanduti http://www.cal.org/earlylang/about/why_the_name.html

=**Other Professional Organizations**=
 * for Administrators, Community Members, Curriculum Supervisors, Librarians, Parents, & Unions**

American Association of School Administrators (AASA) http://www.aasa.org/

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) http://www.aft.org/

American Library Association (ALA) http://www.ala.org/

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development (ASCD) http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/index.jsp/

National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) http://www.nassp.org/s_nassp/index.asp

National Education Association (NEA) http://www.nea.org/index.html

National Middle School Association (NMSA) http://www.nmsa.org/

National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) http://www.pta.org/

National School Boards Association (NSBA) http://www.nsba.org/site/index.asp

U.S. Department of Education (USDE) http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

**//Special Education//**
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) http://www.asha.org/default.htm

Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) http://www.cec.sped.org/

National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) http://www.nagc.org/

**//Technology//**
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) http://www.aace.org/

Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT) http://www.aect.org/default.asp

The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) http://calico.org/

Computer Using Educators (CUE) http://www.cue.org/

Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) http://www.cosn.org/

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) http://www.iste.org/

Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) http://www.macul.org/

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