| AAAL |
American Association of Applied Linguistics |
| AACC |
American Association of Community Colleges |
| AATA |
American Association of Teachers of Arabic |
| AATF |
American Association of Teachers of French |
| AATG |
American Association of Teachers of German |
| AATI |
American Association of Teachers of Italian |
| AATSP |
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese |
| AAUSC |
American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators |
| ACL |
American Classical League |
| ACTFL |
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages |
| ACTR |
American Council on the Teaching of Russian |
| ADFL |
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages |
| AERA |
American Association of Educational Research |
| AP® |
Advanced Placement |
| APLS |
Association of Proprietary Language Schools |
| BALLI |
Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory |
| CAL |
Center for Applied Linguistics |
| CALICO |
Computer Assisted Learning Instruction Consortium |
| CALPER |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research |
| CARLA |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition |
| CASL |
Center for Advanced Study of Languages |
| CASLS |
Center for Applied Second Language Studies |
| CCNAA |
(Chinese) Coordination Council for North American Affairs |
| CCSSO |
Council of Chief State School Officers |
| CEFR |
Common European Framework |
| CeLCAR |
Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region |
| CERCLL |
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literature |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
| CIEE |
Council on International Education Exchange |
| CLASS |
Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools |
| CLEAR |
Center for Language Education and Research |
| CLTA |
Chinese Language Teachers Association |
| CSCTFL |
Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages |
| DLI |
Defense Language Institute |
| DOD |
Department of Defense |
| DOE |
Department of Education |
| ELP |
European Language Portfolio |
| ERIC |
Educational Resources Information Center |
| FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FLAP |
Foreign Language Assistance Program |
| FLEA |
Foreign Language Exhibitors Association |
| FLNAEP |
Foreign Language National Assessment of Educational Progress |
| FLES |
Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools |
| FLEX |
Foreign Language Exploratory Programs |
| FSI |
Foreign Service Institute |
| IALLT |
International Association of Language Learning Technology |
| IB |
International Baccalaureate |
| ILR |
Interagency Language Roundtable |
|
Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium |
| IPA |
Integrated Performance Assessment |
| ISTE |
International Society of Technology in Education |
| JNCL |
Joint National Committee for Languages |
| LARC |
Language Acquisition Resource Center |
| LCTL |
Less Commonly Taught Languages |
| LLC |
Language Learning for Children |
| LTI |
Language Testing International |
| MLA |
Modern Language Association |
| MOPI |
Modified Oral Proficiency Interview |
| NABE |
National Association for Bilingual Education |
| NADSFL |
National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages |
| NAEP |
National Assessment of Educational Progress |
| NAIS |
National Association of Independent Schools |
| NALRC |
National African Language Resource Center |
| NASSP |
National Association of Secondary School Principals |
| NCALS |
National Council of Associations of Chinese Languages Schools |
| NCATE |
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education |
| NCLB |
No Child Left Behind |
| NCJLT |
National Council of Japanese Language Teachers |
| NCLRC |
National Capital Language Resource Center |
| NCSS |
National Council for the Social Studies |
| NCSSFL |
National Council of State Supervisors for Languages |
| NEALRC |
National East Asian Languages Resource Center |
| NECTFL |
Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages |
| NEH |
National Endowment for the Humanities |
| NFLRC |
National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center |
| NFMLTA |
National Federation of Modern Language Teacher Associations |
| NHLRC |
National Heritage Language Resource Center |
| NLRC |
National Language Resource Centers |
| NMELRC |
National Middle Eastern Language Resource Center |
| NCSSFL |
National Council of State Supervisors for Languages |
| NNELL |
National Network for Early Language Learning |
| NCSSFL |
National Council of State Supervisors for Languages |
| NSA |
National Security Agency |
| NSEP |
National Security Education Program |
| NSLI |
National Security Language Initiative |
| NRCCUA |
National Research Center for College University Admission |
| OPI |
Oral Proficiency Interview |
| PAU |
Performance Assessment Unit |
| PNCFL |
Pacific Northwest Council for Foreign Languages |
| SALRC |
South Asia Language Resource Center |
| SCOLT |
Southern Conference on Language Teaching |
| SEELRC |
Slavic and East European Language Resource Center |
| SIG |
Special Interest Group (ACTFL, TESOL, AERA) |
| SWCOLT |
Southwest Conference on Language Teaching |
| TESOL |
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages |
| TPRS |
Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling |
| TPR |
Total Physical Response |
| UbD |
Understanding by Design |
| WPT |
Written Proficiency Test |
