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Building U.S. Global Competence

View videos highlighting efforts to promote global competence in the U.S.

U.S. K-12 Foreign Language Survey

Results of recent K-12 foreign language survey conducted by the Center for Applied Linguistics.

What Business Wants: Language Needs in the 21st Century

Report prepared by the Language Flagship-Creating Global Professionals

Business Language Research and Teaching Grants

The 2010 CIBER Business Language Research Grant program is now accepting applications. Deadline is: February 8, 2010.

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Welcome

The Network of Business Language Educators (NOBLE) is a space which provides opportunities for  faculty across disciplines to develop  relationships, exchange ideas, and to make connections with other professionals in order to better prepare students to excel in the 21st century work place.3-Dworld2620177Small

What NOBLE Aims to Achieve:

  • Promote value of language and cross-cultural proficiency in today’s workforce
  • Understand the value of business and technology as part of every day life skills
  • Foster global literacy through interdisciplinary connections
  • Increase competitiveness of our students by increasing their awareness of global perspectives
  • Improve articulation among secondary and post-secondary institutions
  • Encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty of foreign language,  business, and other professional schools
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