We encourage all language faculty to consider participation in one of the excellent summer institutes organized by the National Language Centers.

CARLA: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
Traditionally offers a broad range of summer courses on material development, assessments, immersion enviroments and FL pedagogy.
http://www.carla.umn.edu/

CLEAR Center for Language Education and Research
Broad range summer courses on FL pedagogy, strong focus on technology, assessemnt and Action Research.
http://clear.msu.edu

NEALRC National East Asian Languages Resource Center
Intensive language courses and teaching training in Japanese and Chinese.
http://nealrc.osu.edu

CASLS Center for Applied Second Language Studies
Developing online proficiency assessments for less commonly taught languages.
http://casls.uoregon.edu

NCLRC National Capital language Resource Center
Shorter 2-4 day institutes: Chinese, Arabic, French, Spanish & special topics.
http://nclrc.org

NALRC National African Language Resource Center
The center organizes an annual 10 day institute for curriculum development and methodology.
http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/nalrc

NMELRC National Middle East Language Resource Center
Teaching training seminars for Arabic and Hebrew.
http://nmelrc.org/

SEELRC Slavic and East European Language Resource Center
http://seelrc.org
The center organizes an annual summer institute for Slavic langaguages.

Foreign Language Resource Centers
Focus on policy and organizational and institutional development
http://nflrc.msu.edu/index-1.php

CALPER Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research
http://calper.la.psu.edu

CeLCAR Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar

NK-12FLRC National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
http://nflrc.iastate.edu

CERCLL Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy
http://cercll.arizona.edu

NHLRC National Heritage Language Resource Center
http://www.nhlrc.ucla.edu

SALRC South Asia Language Resource Center
http://salrc.uchicago.edu

NCLRC Summer Institutes for Teachers
http://nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html