NLSC at ACTFL conference

We went back to Orlando, but this time for the annual conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreigh Languages (ACTFL), November 20-23.  As with ATA earlier in the month, we had a booth, we were one of the event sponsors, and our Chief Linguist spoke at a couple of information sessions.

We talked with over 400 interested individuals among the conference's 6,500 attendees.

One of the interesting things we participated in was a "passport".  We were one of the exhibitors that appeared  in a paper language "passport" that encouraged attendees to circulate through the exhibitor's hall.  An attendee would seek out our booth and request a stamp in his or her passport.  Once s/he collected stamps from all of the passport exhibitors, s/he put it into a drum for a prize drawing at the end of the conference.  We're glad we were part of it because MANY of our visitors came by for a stamp and wound up sticking around to talk.