A Language Resource Center
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota is one of several Language Resource Centers (LRC), whose role is to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively. Through United States Department of Education (USDE) Title VI Language Resource Center program funding, CARLA has sponsored a number of research and action initiatives designed to advance the quality of second language teaching, learning, and assessment.
Projects funded by the LRC
In 1993, CARLA was established as a Language Resource Center at
the University of Minnesota with funding from the USDE. Since that
time, CARLA has received a total of five LRC grants and is currently
funded through 2010.
The CARLA projects funded as part of the LRC for the periods between 1993–1996, 1996–1999, 1999–2002, 2002–2006 and 2006–2010 are:
| Immersion
Education and Research (1993-2010) |
| Less
Commonly Taught Language (1993-2010) |
| Language
Teacher Education Conference (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007) |
| Second
Language Assessment (1993-2010) |
| Web-Based Grammar Strategy Instruction
for Spanish (2006–2010) |
| Pragmatics/Speech
Acts (2002-2006) |
| Content-Based
Language Teaching with Technology
(1999-2006) |
| Culture
and Language Learning (1993-2002) |
| Second
Language Learning Strategies (1993-1996, 1999-2002) |
| Technology
Training for Language Teaching and Learning (1996-2010) |