While browsing through twitter this past week I came across the acronym ACTFL. In today's world there are a plethora of acronyms most of which I have no idea what they mean, including this one. My curiosity urged me to look into the significance of this phrase, which lead me to Charla Lorenzen's twitter account where I learned that ACTFL stands for American Council of on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. This took me my surprise because I am a junior in college studying to be a language teacher and have never heard of this council before. As I further looked into ACTFL and Charla's twitter feed I was connected to the site for the program guide for the most recent ACTFL convention. Here I noticed that their conventions focus on new ideas and technologies to teaching world languages, and the more I read the more I was able to learn about the myriad of techniques that can be used to teach languages. Seeing this gave me hope that the days of instructing languages strictly through text books and learning conjugations will come to an end sooner rather than later.
Link to Charla Lorenzen's twitter
Link to ACTFL program guide
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