main 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.



Announcements


Webinars Next LARC/CALPER Assessment Webinar will be held on Thursday, February 23, 3:30 pm Eastern Time - that is 12:30pm Pacific Time. See Webinar Page for more information.
Email Service In order to serve foreign language educators better, we migrated our mailing list into an email service (Constant Contact). To receive our occasional E-News Flash, you will need to add us to your white-list or safe list. We have noticed that some colleagues block Constant Contact to deliver emails to them, which means our updates will not reach them. We make an effort to archive each update on our site. The link to the subscription and archive page is here.
Like Us If you have benefitted from the materials and professional development opportunities created and provided by CALPER, "like" us on FB to show your support of Title VI LRCs. Also consider adding your "like" to the SAVE Title VI Funding Page" on FB.


Featured Publications


Dynamic Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Teacher's Guide. 2nd Edition.
James P. Lantolf & Matthew E. Poehner
Advancing in Russian Through Narration
Aneta Pavlenko & Victoria Driagina Hasko
Teaching German Modal Particles: A Corpus-based Approach
Nina Vyatkina & Karen E. Johnson
Free Resources from the LRCs
The LRCs developed many teaching and professional materials that we make available for free. To download a PDF click here . Or go to the Common LRC Page and search the database under Resources and Products.



Penn State Language Teaching Workshops

The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research together with 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.