Some General Foreign Language Advocacy Sites


Global Involvement - Advocacy 101
http://www.languagepolicy.org/gi.html

Foreign Language Advocacy (Early Foreign Language Learning, CAL)
http://www.cal.org/earlylang/faadvc.htm

Why learn another language? - Knowing other languages brings opportunities
http://www.adfl.org/resources/knowing_other_languages.htm

 

Seventeen Values of Foreign Language Study

http://www.ade.org/adfl/bulletin/v28n1/281044.htm

 

Second Language Studies Curriculum: Purpose

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/second_languages/purpose.htm

 

Why Ask Why Study a Foreign Language?

http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/languages/whystudy/

 

A Rationale for Foreign Language Education

http://www.ncssfl.org/rationale.htm

 

Language Deficiencies in the Education System

http://www.eisenhowerinstitute.org/programs/democracy/homelandsecurity/Whitman4report.htm

 

Foreign Language Study and the Brain

http://ivc.uidaho.edu/flbrain/

 

Foreign Language Learning – An Early Start

http://www.penpages.psu.edu/penpages_reference/28507/285073032.HTML

 

The Glastonbury Language Program

http://www.educ.iastate.edu/nnell/glastonb.htm

 

Why Your Child Should Study Foreign Languages

http://mum.neric.org/~jnotarni/parent~1.htm

 

Why Learn a Language Other than English

http://lxc.binghamton.edu/lote.htm

 

Workplace Trends – “Demand for foreign language speakers”

http://www.andreakay.com/trends/art_6004.htm

 

Foreign Language Study – If Scandalous in the 20th Century, what will it be in the 21st Century?

http://language.stanford.edu/about/conferencepapers/panettapaper.pdf

 

Second Language Learning: Everyone Can Benefit

http://www.kidlanguages.com/archives/000062.html


Southern Conference on Language Teaching - Foreign Language Advocacy
http://www.valdosta.edu/scolt/advocacy.html

Advocacy - Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
http://www.centralstates.cc/17states.html

Foreign Language Association of Georgia - Advocacy for Foreign Languages
http://www.flageorgia.org/advocacy.htm

Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (see "Advocacy Video")
http://mafla.org/

 NYSAFLT Foreign Language Advocacy
http://www.nysaflt.org/advocacy.htm

The Alliance for Language Learning (FLANC)
http://www.wfu.edu/education/vision2010/advocacy.html

World Language Advocacy (PSMLA)
http://psmla.mercyhurst.edu/Advocacy.asp

Why study a foreign language in Tennessee?
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/why.html

Texas Foreign Language Association - Advocacy
http://www.tfla.info/advocacy.htm

Vermont Foreign Language Association Advocacy Page
http://www.vfla.org/film.htm

Foreign Language Association of Virginia Advocacy Page
http://www.flavaweb.org/advocacy.htm

Glastonbury Foreign Languages - Advocacy
http://www.foreignlanguage.org/advocacy/

 

National Security Education program

http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/EI62.asp

 

The State of Foreign Language capabilities in National Security and the federal Government

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2000_hr/hr_091400.html

 

Beef Up This Country’s Foreign Language Skills (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A36489-2001Oct22

 

Bilingual Education under Siege

http://www.americas.org/item_106

 

Famous Bilingual People

http://www.pitt.edu/~flsites/bilingual/