Resources and Links
The future security and economic vitality of the nation requires a new focus on educating a multilingual and globally competent workforce. The Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Labor launched the 2007 U.S. Language Summits: Roadmap to Language Excellence project to initiate state-centric action plans to identify and address the need for foreign language skills in the workforce.
Resources
- Bibliography
- Resources for Promoting Language Learning (pdf)
- Texas Standards for Languges Other Than English (pdf)
- 2007 U.S. Language Roadmaps: Summary
Sponsors and Other Summits
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National Security Education Program
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The Language Flagship
- Oregon Language Summit
- Ohio Language Summit
Additional Links
- Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages
- Arabic Flagship, University of Texas at Austin
- Databases of U.S. Immersion Programs and Two-Way Immersion Programs
- Hindi-Urdu Flagship, University of Texas at Austin
- MLA Report, Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World
- Ñandutí: Foreign language learning grades preK–8
- Ohio Language Roadmap (pdf)
- Oregon Language Roadmap (pdf)
- Texas Language Roadmap (pdf)
- Texas Two-Way Dual Language Education Consortium
