The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is an American

United States

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 organization aiming to improve and expand the teaching and learning of all language

Language

Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...

s at all levels of instruction. ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 10,600 foreign language educators and administrators from elementary

Elementary school

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 through graduate education, as well as government and industry.

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Presidents:

• 2009: Eileen Glisan
  Eileen Glisan
  Eileen Glisan is a professor of Spanish language and Spanish language education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She was elected as the President of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages for 2009.-References:...
  
  , Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  Indiana University of Pennsylvania is a public university in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA. The university is northeast of Pittsburgh. It is the largest university in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and is the commonwealth's fifth largest university...
  
  
• 2008: Ray Clifford
• 2007: Rita Oleksak, Glastonbury Public Schools
• 2006: Paul Sandrock