ACTFL® Assessments: The Gold Standard in Higher Education

Why ACTFL Assessments Are the Gold Standard in Higher Education Language Assessment  When it comes to language assessment, accuracy of scoring and credibility are non-negotiable. For institutions making key decisions about student placement, waiver, and graduation requirements, ACTFL assessments are one of the most trusted measures of language abilities globally.  Delivered exclusively through Language Testing International® (LTI), ACTFL assessments are the only tests that deliver ACTFL scores and […]

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Bridging Care and Communication: How a Language Micro-Credential Transforms Nursing Education

Note: This article was written based on a recorded interview with Dr. Lucia Osa-Melero, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Hispanic Studies at Duquesne University. It was more than fifteen years ago when a simple question sparked what would become a transformative partnership at Duquesne University: Could nursing students take an elective in […]

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Leveraging Language, Connecting Students to Employment Opportunities – LTI Blog

How many bilinguals or multilinguals are there in the US? In 2020, researcher François Grossjean suggested that the number of bilinguals is particularly hard to nail down because the Census Bureau doesn’t track the number of people who use multiple languages in their everyday lives. However, they do ask some specific language-related questions: “Does this […]

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College and Career Readiness: Where Does Language Fit?

Spoiler alert: language education is important for college and career readiness (CCR)! Recently, Education Week (EdWeek) launched an informal poll among K-12 language educators on LinkedIn and found that nearly 75% of the roughly 1,900 respondents listed “adaptability as the most important skill graduates need.” Other skills mentioned were ability to focus, empathy, resilience, critical […]

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