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Language Organizations

Language organizations play a critical role in the teaching of languages in the United States. Their professional membership provides expertise in language, culture, area and ethnic studies though programming, teaching, translation, research, policy and financial support at the international, national, state and local levels.

ACTFL Regional - Central States Conference (CSC) 

ACTFL Regional - Northeast Conference (NECTFL) 

ACTFL Regional - Pacific Northwest Council for Languages (PNCFL) 

ACTFL Regional - Southern Conference (SCOLT) 

ACTFL Regional - Southwest Conference (SWCOLT) 

African Language Teachers Association (ALTA) 

Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers 

Alaskans for Language Acquisition 

American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 

American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) 

American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) 

American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) 

American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) 

American Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) 

American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK) 

American Association of Teachers of Persian (AATP) 

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) 

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) 

American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT) 

American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC) 

American Classical League 

American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) 

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 

American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA) 

American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese (AOTP) 

American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA) 

Arizona Language Association 

Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association 

Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) 

California Association of Japanese Language Teachers 

California Language Teachers Association 

Cantonese Language Association (CLA) 

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition 

Center for Applied Linguistics 

Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL) 

Chinese Language Association for Secondary/Elementary Schools (CLASS) 

Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) 

Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers 

Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium 

Concordia Language Villages 

Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching 

Connecticut Council of Language Teachers 

Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian and Malay (COTIM) 

Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL) 

Delaware Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 

Esperanto League of North America (ELNA) 

Florida Foreign Language Association 

Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA) 

Foreign Language Association of Georgia 

Foreign Language Association of Maine 

Foreign Language Association of Missouri 

Foreign Language Association of North Carolina 

Foreign Language Association of North Dakota 

Foreign Language Association of Virginia 

Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) 

Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey 

Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey (FLENJ) 

Greater Washington, DC Assoc. of Teachers of Foreign Languages 

Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad (GUAVA) 

Hawaii Association of Language Teachers 

Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture 

Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 

Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association 

International Association of Teachers of Czech 

Iowa World Language Association 

Kansas World Language Association 

Kentucky World Languages Association 

Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 

Louisiana Foreign Language Teachers Association 

Maryland Foreign Language Association 

Massachusetts Foreign Language Association 

Michigan World Languages Association 

Middlebury Language Schools 

Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 

Mississippi Foreign Language Association 

MLA Regional - Midwest MLA 

MLA Regional - Northeast MLA 

MLA Regional - Pacific Ancient and MLA 

MLA Regional - Rocky Mountain MLA 

MLA Regional - South Atlantic MLA 

MLA Regional - South Central MLA 

Modern Greek Language Teacher Association  

Modern Language Association (MLA) 

Montana Association of Language Teachers 

National Association for Bilingual Educators (NABE) 

National Association of District Supervisors for Foreign Languages 

National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) 

National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) 

National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) 

National Council of Secondary Teachers of Japanese (NCSTJ) 

National Council of State Supervisors for Languages (NCSSFL) 

National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland 

National Network for Early Language Learning 

Nebraska International Language Association 

Network of Businesses Language Educators 

New Hampshire Assoc. of World Language Teachers 

New Mexico Organization of Language Educators 

New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers 

North American Association of Celtic Language Teachers (NAACLT) 

North American Catalan Society (NACS) 

Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) 

Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America (NorTANA) 

Ohio Foreign Language Association 

Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers' Association 

Pacific Northwest Council for Languages 

Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association 

Professional Language Association of Nevada 

Rhode Island Foreign Language Association 

Romanian Studies Association of America (RSAA) 

SCOLA 

South Asian Language Teachers Association (SATA) 

South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers' Association 

South Dakota World Languages Association 

Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) 

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 

Tennessee Foreign Language Institute 

Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association 

Texas Foreign Language Association 

University of Utah, Second Language Teaching and Research Center 

Utah Foreign Language Association 

Vermont Foreign Language Association 

Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers 

West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association 

Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers 

Wyoming Foreign Language Teachers Association

 

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