Books published by National Foreign Langauge Resource Center

The Korean Language Flagship Center (KLFC) aims to produce professionals who can function in Korean in their chosen fields. This volume is the fifth in the series, a compilation of the students' research on critical Korean issues.

The Korean Language Flagship Center (KLFC) aims to produce professionals who can function in Korean in their chosen fields. This volume is the fourth in the series, a compilation of the students' research on critical and controversial issues in Korea or Korea-US relations. It is published by KLFC at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Although many online intercultural exchanges have been conducted based on the groundbreaking Cultura model, most to date have been between and among European languages. This volume presents several chapters with a focus on exchanges involving Asian and Pacific languages. Many of the benefits and challenges of these exchanges are similar to those reported for European languages; however, some of the difficulties reported in the Chinese and Japanese exchanges might be due to the significant linguistic differences between English and East Asian languages. This volume adds to the body of emerging studies of telecollaboration among learners of Asian and Pacific languages.

Changes in accreditation policies and institutional practices have led to the emergence of student learning outcomes assessment as an important, increasingly common expectation in U.S. college foreign language programs. This volume investigates contemporary outcomes assessment activity, with a primary focus on useful assessment, that is, assessment that is put to use proactively by foreign language educators. Authors approach the topic from distinct perspectives, ranging from a study of national trends in outcomes assessment practices, to reflections on assessment experiences by program leaders, to case studies highlighting language educators' implementation and uses of outcomes assessment for diverse curricular and pedagogical purposes.