World Languages (Foreign Languages)

Standards and Guidelines|Resources|Professional Organizations for World Language Educators

Standards and Guidelines

There are not official New Hampshire Curriculum Frameworks for World Languages at this time.  There are, however, state-sponsored World Language Competencies for High Schools.

• World Language teachers (25 teachers from 12 high schools around the state) convened over 3 days in August 2007 to create and refine first drafts of course-level competencies for French, German, Latin (Greek) and Spanish. Follow-up meetings took place in February 2008 to review the draft competencies and work on assessment rubrics. The final model competencies for French, German, Latin, and Spanish are now available below. For more information contact Jan Hennessey at Dover High School: j.hennessey@dover.k12.nh.us

• Model course-level competencies & rubrics

• French
• German
  
• Latin (Greek)
  
• Spanish
  

New Hampshire High School Redesign

In lieu of state curriculum frameworks, educators are advised to access the NH Guidelines:

NH Guidelines:

The New Hampshire Association of World Language Teachers has developed guidelines which are closely modeled on the National Standards.  The New Hampshire Guidelines for World Language Learning K-College can be obtained by sending a check for $15 to:

NHAWLT

Attn: Guidelines

P.O. Box 1128

Nashua , NH 03061-1128

National Standards:

Information about the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. 450pp. (National Standards) can be found at the following Web site: http://www.actfl.org/.   The site contains links for downloading a free 8-page executive summary and ordering a complete copy of the standards.

Bringing the Standards into the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide : http://www.educ.iastate.edu/nflrc/pubs/standards/standards.html

This guide was written to assist teachers in aligning their present foreign language curriculum with the National Standards for student learning.   This project was initiated by the Iowa State University National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center and is an example of the types of resources developed by the Language Resource Centers

World Languages in NH Public High Schools (2009) including charters - based on certification data-not a survey 

American Sign Language

In 2005, the NH State Board of Education recognized American Sign Language as a World Language for the purposes of the High School minimum language requirement. A committee began to study how to implement this mandate in September 2006, and submitted a proposal for approval by the Professional Standards Board in September 2007. The certification for ASL as a World Language went into effect July 1, 2008.    see ED 507.37 Modern Language Teacher (document # 9306, eff 10/25/2008)

Resources

National Title VI Language Resource Centers (linked page)

Resources for Canadian Literature (linked page)

Languages and Children : Making the Match : Foreign Language Instruction for an Early Start Grades K-8 by Helena Curtain, Carol Ann Bjornstad Pesola

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801311403/qid=908556766/sr=1-3/002-0089767-9988226

In Other Words : The Science and Psychology of Second-Language Acquisition

by Ellen Bialystok, Kenji Hakuta (Contributor)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465032818/qid=908557314/sr=1-40/002-0089767-9988226

The Age Factor in Second Language Acquisition : A Critical Look at the Critical Period Hypothesis (Multilingual Matters)

by David Singleton (Editor), Zsolt Lengyel (Editor)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/185359301X/qid=908558025/sr=1-58/002-0089767-9988226

Center for Applied Linguistics ( CAL ) Resources

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) Online Resources: http://www.cal.org/resources/update.html .

CAL Digests and Resource Guides Online provide syntheses of research and best practices and include bibliographies for further study of a topic.

National Title VI Language Resource Centers

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:

Duke University and UNC - Chapel Hill Slavic and East European Language Resource Center : http://seelrc.org

University of Wisconsin National African Languages Resource Center : http://african.lss.wisc.edu/nalrc

Georgetown University , CAL , George Washington University National Capital Language Resource Center : http://www.nclrc.org

Iowa State University National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center : http://www.educ.iastate.edu/nflrc

Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research: http://clear.msu.edu

Ohio State University National East Asian Languages Resource Center : http://nealrc.osu.edu

San Diego State University Language Acquisition Resource Center : http://larcnet.sdsu.edu

University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center : http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu

University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition: http://www.carla.umn.edu

The Pennsylvania State University Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research: http://calper.la.psu.edu

University of Oregon The Center for Applied Second Language Studies: http://casls.uoregon.edu

Indiana University Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region: http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar

Brigham Young University National Middle East Language Resource Center : http://nmelrc.byu.edu

University of Chicago South Asia Language Resource Center : http://salrc.uchicago.edu

Join the NH World Language Distribution List

The Department receives a large amount of emails about curriculum materials, professional development opportunities, state and federal legislation and other matters of interest to World Language educators in New Hampshire.

If interested in having those mailings forwarded to you, please contact Kenneth Relihan at krelihan@ed.state.nh.us. Volume drops in the summer, so it is possible to suspend distribution during school vacation upon request.

Staff members:

Kenneth Relihan, Consultant, 603-271-6151 or krelihan@ed.state.nh.us

update Oct 28 09 (gjt)