The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at the Pennsylvania State University is one of fifteen Title VI Language Resource Centers (LRCs) in the United States which are funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

CALPER's particular focus is to improve the environment of advanced-level foreign language teaching and learning, and assessment.

Summer Workshops 2013

June 3-4, 2013 - Discourse Analysis and L2 Teaching and Materials Development Susan Strauss, Penn State June 6-7, 2013 - The Interface of Language and Culture Jim Lantolf, Penn State The workshop on Language e-Portfolios has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Featured Publication

Social and Interactive Perspectives on Japanese Language Proficiency NEW by Junko Mori, University of Wisconsin-Madison Through guided observations of video-recorded interactions among speakers of Japanese, this monograph encourages the reader/viewer to reflect on underlying assumptions concerning language, language learning, and language learners, which affect the design of language textbooks and classroom practices. Go to Teacher Development Publications.

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Penn State Language Teaching Workshops

The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research and the Center for Language Acquisition at Penn State conducts the Penn State Language Teaching Workshop Series during the academic year and holds a number of in-service workshops for Penn State instructors and local and regional world language teachers.