In Boston for ACTFL 2010

For the third year in a row the NLSC recruited at the annual conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). It was held in Boston, MA this year, over the November 19-21 weekend.


While our booth was a few aisles away from the main entrance of the exhibit all, we had strong traffic, including 19 people who completed applications on the spot (several were interested in applying on-line – we hope all who expressed that interest will follow through!).

Conference attendees included university professors and instructors, linguists, high school foreign language teachers, industry representatives and professionals in the federal government foreign language community. Organizers expected over 5,000 to attend, and about 400 of them visited the NLSC booth.


Dr. Bill Rivers, our Chief Linguist, spoke in a session about the NLSC’s effort to develop ASTM standards for language proficiency testing (which is currently going through the final ASTM approval procedures).