language teaching
Advocacy for World Languages
Promoting the Value of Language Learning and Multilingualism
Advocacy can mean anything from political action to a class activity that makes a good news item on the school website. What can you do to strengthen your world language program and promote multilingualism overall?
Advocacy Resources
The Padlet collection below began as a discussion board prompt in FLT 817 in Spring 2022. It includes resources on policy and policy makers, but many of them are here entirely to help language educators like you or your colleagues make the case to your program’s many stakeholders that language learning and multilingualism should receive as much support as they can give.
I hope it will be helpful to you, feel free to share, and let us know ([email protected]) if you want to recommend other posts for this board. Thanks for all your advocacy, past and potential!
Open the Padlet: Padlet.com/LanierPedPad/advocacy_maflt
Relevant Posts
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World Readiness for a World in Conflict – Language Magazine
Language Magazine – November 2023 | “World Readiness for a World in Conflict” | Our most prevalent standards for language learning guide us to focus on “world-readiness,” but I find that language educators are more wary of conflict in their classrooms than they are concerned about the effects of world conflict on their everyday lessons.
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Language Advocacy Days 2023 with JNCL-NCLIS
Have you talked to your legislators lately? JNCL-NCLIS LAD23 – Building Opportunity through Multilingualism
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Advocacy for World Language Programs
Also published on the MAFLT blog: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/program-news. Advocacy has been a prevalent theme for world language teachers and programs in the U.S. recently. Teachers are overworked, programs are closing, funding is drying up, new programs are not getting off the ground, and less-commonly-taught languages remain less common unless they are important for national security reasons.…
