The United States Department of Education has awarded grants to a small number of institutions for the purpose of establishing, strengthening, and operating national foreign language resource and training centers to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Presently there are fourteen Title VI Language Resource Centers nationwide. Each Language Resource Center focuses on a particular aspect of language teaching, and conducts research, develops resources for dissemination, and provides professional development opportunities, including intensive summer institutes
The Fourteen LRCs
- Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research, Pennsylvania State University
- Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota
- Center for Applied Second Language Studies, University of Oregon
- Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region, Indiana University
- Center for Language Education And Research, Michigan State University
- Chapel Hill Slavic and East European Language Resource Center, Duke University and UNC
- Language Acquisition Resource Center, San Diego State University
- National African Languages Resource Center, University of Wisconsin
- National Capital Language Resource Center Georgetown University, CAL, George Washington University
- National East Asian Languages Resource Center, Ohio State University
- National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii
- National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, Iowa State University
- National Middle East Language Resource Center, Brigham Young University
- South Asia Language Resource Center, University of Chicago