CARLA - Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition

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The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) is an internationally known research and resource center devoted to improving language teaching and learning based at the University of Minnesota. Launched in 1993, CARLA supports language teachers around the world with summer institutes, workshops, conferences, and research-based instructional and professional development materials.

CARLA’s LRC INITIATIVES (2022–2026)

As a federally-funded Title VI Language Resource Center, the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota will carry out seven initiatives and ongoing dissemination in two focal areas: Language-Content Integration and Teacher Education and Advocacy. LANGUAGE-CONTENT INTEGRATION

These three CARLA initiatives will enhance language learning through cultural and academic content:

LITERACIES IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION will strengthen language teachers’ understanding and use of multiliteracies pedagogy by creating a database of instructional activities and enactment videos; organizing cohort-model workshops and lesson plan development for less commonly taught language (LCTL) teachers; and disseminating templates, tools, and teaching materials. SECONDARY DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION (DLI): MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH will support the increase in secondary DLI programs by developing a repository of content-and language-integrated teaching materials; conducting design-based research on the creation of these materials; and offering workshops for immersion teacher educators at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI). SOCIAL JUSTICE IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION will improve understanding and application of critical pedagogies by researching student and teacher learning in social justice-oriented language classrooms and offering a suite of professional development activities. TEACHER EDUCATION & ADVOCACY

These four CARLA initiatives will enhance teachers’ instructional capacity, support for their students, and communication with stakeholders:

EQUITY & ACCESS TO STATE SEALS OF BILITERACY will provide more equitable access to seals of biliteracy by conducting a national needs analysis; creating customizable toolkits for students, parents, and employers in ten LCTLs; developing assessment supports in six LCTLs; and disseminating materials through social media, the CARLA website, and national partnerships. INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE (ILTE) will provide a forum for language teacher educators to share research and practice by hosting the 12th ILTE; organizing symposia for LCTL, MSI, community college (CC) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) educators; and publishing a conference proceedings. LANGUAGE PROGRAM DIRECTION (LPD) will support novice and aspiring LPDs by publishing interactive, web-based learning modules; facilitating a professional learning community; and supporting the publication of Second Language Research & Practice. PRACTICAL PROGRAM EVALUATION, in collaboration with ACTFL, will improve understanding and implementation of program evaluation by offering summer institutes and workshops for teachers in LCTL, CC, HBCU, MSI, and heritage language programs; creating Open Educational Resources to support program evaluation; and disseminating materials through the CARLA and ACTFL websites and CARLA presentation series. CARLA’s extensive website also offers many resources from these past initiatives: Articulation of Language Instruction; Assessment of Second Language Learning; Content-Based Language Instruction; Culture and Language Learning; Immersion Education and Research; Learner Language Tools for Teachers; Less Commonly Taught Languages; Maximizing Study Abroad Learning; Pragmatics and Speech Acts; and Strategies for Language Learning.

05/28/2026

REGISTER BY MAY 29!
Save $50 by registering with the discount code: CARLA50
Seals of Biliteracy: Establishing and Expanding Programs in Schools or Districts
June 16–18, 2026
Online–Synchronous
This institute provides secondary educators and administrators with tools to support the establishment and/or expansion of Bilingual Seals programs equitably and locally.
Learn more and register: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2026/bilingualseals

05/27/2026

Register by Friday, May 29!

This institute focuses on how to create social justice lesson plans that integrate language and content and foster students’ critical thinking abilities using a planning template created for CARLA’s Social Justice in Language Education initiative.

Learn more and register: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2026/socialjustice

05/26/2026

The registration deadline is Friday, May 29!

Learn more and register: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2026/schedule
2026 CARLA Summer Institutes:
ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS INSTITUTES
* Seals of Biliteracy: Establishing and Expanding Programs in Schools or Districts
* Secondary Dual Language Immersion: Achieving the Promise of Continuation Programs
* Curating Language in the Wild: Social Media as Classroom Text
IN-PERSON INSTITUTE—on the University of Minnesota campus
* Planning Social Justice Lessons: Critical Pedagogies in Action

05/12/2026

REGISTER BY MAY 29!
Save $50 by registering with the discount code: CARLA50

Seals of Biliteracy: Establishing and Expanding Programs in Schools or Districts
June 16–18, 2026
Online–Synchronous
This institute provides secondary educators and administrators with tools to support the establishment and/or expansion of Bilingual Seals programs equitably and locally.
Learn more and register: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2026/bilingualseals

04/24/2026

The regular registration deadline is Friday, May 29!
Learn more and register: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2026/schedule
2026 CARLA Summer Institutes:
ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS INSTITUTES
* Seals of Biliteracy: Establishing and Expanding Programs in Schools or Districts
* Secondary Dual Language Immersion: Achieving the Promise of Continuation Programs
* Curating Language in the Wild: Social Media as Classroom Text
IN-PERSON INSTITUTE—on the University of Minnesota campus
* Planning Social Justice Lessons: Critical Pedagogies in Action

03/24/2026

This institute has been specifically designed for second language teachers who want to meaningfully incorporate social media resources into their teaching.
Learn more and register: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2026/socialmedia

03/19/2026

This institute focuses on how to create social justice lesson plans that integrate language and content and foster students’ critical thinking abilities using a planning template created for CARLA’s Social Justice in Language Education initiative.

Learn more and register: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2026/socialjustice

03/17/2026

This institute provides secondary educators and administrators with tools to support the establishment and/or expansion of Bilingual Seals programs equitably and locally.
Learn more and register:
https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2026/bilingualseals

03/13/2026

Due Today! (March 13, 2026)
Attention world language educators who are currently teaching at a two-year Community College (CC), postsecondary Minority Serving Institution (MSI), or Historically Black College/University (HBCU) in the United States and/or are currently teaching a Less Commonly Taught Language (LCTL) in the United States.
Apply now for the Language Teacher Priority Scholarship Program!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0bln2wtk1w2sI8LJfIvr5Qz0cIfjCMBB0kBSVyENOfH0_DA/viewform

03/05/2026

Check out the Spring CARLA Update!
Priority Teacher Professional Development Scholarship Opportunity
New Social Justice thematic resources and open access article
New Secondary Dual Language Education language arts curricular unit
And more!
Read the full CARLA Update and sign up for the mailing list!
https://carla.umn.edu/about/carlaupdatenews

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