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Foreign Language Assessment Directory
Learn more about our free, searchable online directory of information on nearly 200 tests in over 90 languages.

Understanding Assessment
View the online companion tutorial to the FLAD designed to help educators select appropriate foreign language assessments.

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Written permission is required to reprint or reproduce material from any copyrighted CAL publication or product. Learn more.

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Celebrating 50 Years:
1959 - 2009
Visit the CAL50 Web site to learn more about CAL's history, new resources, and special anniversary events.

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Discover Languages

Ask the Language Experts
CAL has compiled answers to frequently asked questions about language education, linguistics, and cultural education.

  

Resources

The Center for Applied Linguistics provides a comprehensive range of research-based language and cultural education resources and testing tools. CAL's experienced staff of researchers and educators is committed to using the results of our research and projects to develop practical resources related to language learning, cultural orientation, linguistics, and more.

We invite you to browse our resources described in this section, from publications to frequently asked questions about language learning, from searchable databases and directories to free downloadable materials.

Online Resources
Free online resources, including downloadable digests, informational brochures, frequently asked questions and more.

Databases / Directories
Searchable databases and directories that are housed at CAL, such as the Directory of Foreign Language Immersion Programs in U.S. Schools and the Online Directory of ESL Resources.

Publications
An alphabetical list of all publications currently available from CAL.

Links
CAL has developed this section to provide helpful links to online information relating to issues of language and culture.

CAL Resources Archive
We have created an archive to provide access to older, but still relevant, project resources and deliverables.

New Resource

Headphones and MicrophonesCAL American Dialect Recordings Now Available Online NEW!
As part of the Library of Congress American Memory series, the CAL Collection of American English Dialect Recordings has been digitized and is now accessible online. This collection of interviews and other speech recordings, primarily from dialect research and oral history projects, provides a centralized source of North American dialect samples, preserving valuable linguistic resources that might otherwise be lost. The collection was donated by CAL to the Library of Congress in 1986 and has been accessible only by personal visit to the Library since then.  Browse the Collection.

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For your convenience, CAL has created a Web page with links to a wide variety of information about the ARRA of 2009. Learn more.