KANSAS WORLD LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION

ADVOCACY RESOURCES

These links will lead you to helpful websites where you’ll find information and suggestions about implementing various approaches to advocacy. Some of them focus on issues other than foreign language education, but the techniques they describe will work for you as well. Still others contain links to other websites with useful information.  

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• ACTFL’s Discover Languages site

• The Language Educator Article - Getting the Word out About Language Learning

• The Language Educator Article on Advocacy – You Don’t Have to Be an Experienced Lobbyist to Make a Difference 

• ACTFL informational brochures

• Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC)

• FLANC informational brochures

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

• Wisconsin Clearinghouse For Prevention Resources 

• Wake Forest University Alliance for Language Learning

• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)

• CAL: Benefets of Early Language Learning

• NAFSA Association of International Educators 

• NAFSA Advocacy Handbook 

• JNCL-NCLIS Advocacy Resource 

• Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures - Brochure  

• Posters available from the Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures

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