National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages

NCOLCTL was established in 1990 with the objective of raising awareness of the importance of less commonly taught languages and to build a framework for the development of professions focusing on the teaching and learning of these languages.

NCOLCTL was established with funding from the Ford Foundation to become a national alliances of organizations representing individual languages and language groups of less commonly taught languages in the United States. The mission of this alliance was to directly benefit the growth and development of these language-specific programs. Once established, NCOLCTL, in collaboration with the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC), worked to develop a conceptual framework designed to help sustain and enrich LCTL programs in American academic institutions by sharing resources and expertise across the country.

NCOLCTL meets its objectives by organizing series of activities designed to strengthen the teaching and learning of less commonly taught languages.

  • Yearly Conference - These conferences bring together professionals from Academia, Government, Private Sector and Students in the field of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) devoted to strengthening the less commonly taught languages professions and principally directs its efforts toward building a national architecture for the LCTL field and in making the fields resources easily accessible to language programs and language learners around the World.

  • Publications

    • Journal of the NCOLCTL(JNCOLCTL)

    • NCOLCTL Newsletter

    • Textbooks

  • Webinars & Teaching Seminars

 
 
 
 
 
 
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