World Language Resources

State Board of Education (SBE) FAQs

Guidance from SBE on Washington state world languages.

Reports and Articles of Interest

• UPDATE: World Languages and the Washington State Seal of Biliteracy (2024)
• Visualization of Seals of Biliteracy Earned by District 2021-22

Language Associations, Centers, and Organizations

Washington State

• Chinese Language Teachers Association Washington State
• Confucius Institute of the State of Washington
• University of Washington Spanish Center
• Washington Association For Language Teaching (WAFLT)
• Washington State Coalition for International Education (See Resources: World Languages)

National

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)
• American Council on Immersion Education (ACIE)
• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
• Foreign Language Resource Centers (Federally funded by Title VI)
• National Council of State Supervisors for Language (NCSSFL)
• National Network of Early Language Learning (NNELL)
• State Foreign Language Associations (Links on Multilingual Books site)

Language-Specific

• American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA)
• American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
• American Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ)
• American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)
• American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
• American Sign Language Teacher Association (ASLTA)
• Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)

Grants and Funding

Language Flagship, U.S. Department of State
The Language Flagship leads the nation in designing, supporting, and implementing a new paradigm for advanced language education. Through an innovative partnership among the federal government, education, and business, The Language Flagship seeks to graduate students who will take their place among the next generation of global professionals, commanding a superior level of fluency in one of many languages critical to U.S. competitiveness and security.