The Language Resource Center (LRC) Program of the U.S. Department of Education, administered by the International Foreign Language Education Service under Title VI of the Higher Education Act

Higher Education Act of 1965

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, funds grants

Grant (money)

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 to American universities

University

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 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

Research

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, materials development, and dissemination projects.

The common goal of the Language Resource Centers (LRCs) is to promote the learning and teaching of foreign language

Foreign language

A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her...

s in the United States

United States

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 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. Led by nationally and internationally recognized language professionals, LRCs create language learning materials, offer professional development

Professional development

Professional development refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from college degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning...

 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.

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15 LRCs were funded in the FY 2010-2013 grant cycle: CALPER (Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service... CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition), University of Minnesota (U of M) University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557... CASLS (Center for Applied Second Language Studies), University of Oregon (UO) University of Oregon -Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :... CERCLL (Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy, University of Arizona (UA) University of Arizona The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885... CeLCAR (Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region), Indiana University (IU) Indiana University Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000... CLEAR (Center for Language Education and Research), Michigan State University (MSU) Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,... COERLL (Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning), University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin... LARC (Language Acquisition Resource Center), San Diego State University (SDSU) San Diego State University San Diego State University , founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area , and is part of the California State University system... NALRC (National African Language Resource Center), University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) NCLRC (National Capital Language Resource Center), Georgetown University (Georgetown) Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States... , George Washington University (GWU) George Washington University The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...  and Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) Center for Applied Linguistics The Center for Applied Linguistics is a private, nonprofit organization that describes its mission as “working to improve communication through better understanding of language and culture”... NEALRC (National East Asian Language Resource Center), Ohio State University (OSU) Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States... NFLRC (National Foreign Language Resource Center), University of Hawaii (UH) University of Hawaii The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment... NHLRC (National Heritage Language Resource Center), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) & UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching NMELRC (National Middle East Language Resource Center), Brigham Young University (BYU) Brigham Young University Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students... SEELRC (Slavic and East European Language Research Center), Duke University (Duke) Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

15 LRCs were funded in the FY 2006-2009 grant cycle: Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (Penn State), Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (U of M), Center for Applied Second Language Studies (UO), Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (UA), Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (IU), Center for Language Education and Research (MSU), Language Acquisition Resource Center (SDSU), National African Language Resource Center (UW-Madison), National Capital Language Resource Center (Georgetown, GWU, CAL), National East Asian Language Resource Center (OSU), National Foreign Language Resource Center (UH), National Heritage Language Resource Center (UCLA), National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (Iowa State University (ISU) Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of... ), National Middle East Language Resource Center (BYU), South Asia Language Resource Center (University of Chicago (UC) University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... ).

12 LRCs were funded in the FY 2002-2005 grant cycle: Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (Penn State), Center for Applied Second Language Studies (UO), Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (IU), Center for Language Education and Research (MSU), Language Acquisition Resource Center (SDSU), National African Language Resource Center (UW-Madison), National Capital Language Resource Center (Georgetown, GWU, CAL), National East Asian Language Resource Center (OSU), National Foreign Language Resource Center (UH), National Middle East Language Resource Center (BYU), South Asia Language Resource Center (UC), Slavic and East European Language Research Center (Duke).