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The Language Center's goal is to enhance second language instruction at the University of Minnesota. The Center provides audio, video and computer facilities and equipment, assists in the preparation of instructional materials and offers training and consultation to instructors with the application of new instructional technologies.

Diane J. Tedick, Editor (The Minnesota Articulation Project). This handbook for teachers was designed to provide world language teachers with the background knowledge, ideas, and resources for implementing proficiency-oriented language instruction and classroom-based performance measures into their curriculum. Tied to the national Standards for Foreign Language Education, the Handbook gives teachers a solid foundation of the principles and practices that are central to standards-based and proficiency-oriented language instruction and assessment. The Handbook gives teachers a wide variety of tasks and activities to use in the classroom along with ideas for adapting these activities for different levels and languages and longer curricular packages.The Handbook was originally created by members of the Minnesota Articulation Project. While the handbook is still available in print through the CARLAmworking paper series most of the handbook is now available online.

Welcome to the Minnesota Adult Basic Education (ABE) Fully-Accessible Online Disability Resource Guide. This guide is designed to equip ABE managers, teachers, volunteers and tutors to empower, educate and improve the lives of their students with disabilities. The guide includes knowledgeable contributions by Adult Basic Education and Disability Specialists.

My name is David Walonick and I'm a statistics professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. I originally wrote Survival Statistics for my students, but then realized how important the information was to everyone. If you're conducting a survey then you need to learn statistics. Survival Statistics focuses on concepts... not formulas.

Interest piece from news station in Minnesota about decrease in second language programs in elementary schools. Features Elaine Tarone from CARLA at University of MN.

VideoAnt is an online video annotation tool created by the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. It allows users to make time-line based textual comments in synchronization with online video. It's an ideal tool for providing feedback or facilitating peer reviews.