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Professional Organizations

Международная ассоциация преподавателей русского языка и литературы (МАПРЯЛ)
Неправительственное общественное объединение, созданное с целью популяризации, сохранения, развития и изучения русского языка и литературы как части мировой культуры.  
Publication: Русский язык за рубежом


American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Language (AATSEEL)
Serves to advance the study and promote the teaching of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, and cultures on all educational levels. 
Publication: Slavic and Eastern European Journal (SEEJ)

 
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Leading international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and Eastern Europe in regional and global contexts. It supports teaching, research, and publication relating to the study of the region.
Publication: Slavic Review


American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. 
Publications: The Language Educator, Foreign Language Annals


American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
Professional organization of scholars who are interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics. AAAL members promote principled approaches to language-related concerns, including language education, acquisition and loss, bilingualism, discourse analysis, literacy, rhetoric and stylistics, language for special purposes, psycholinguistics, second and foreign language pedagogy, language assessment, and language policy and planning.
            
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)
Represents the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) in the United States and is devoted to strengthening the less commonly taught language professions through enabling its members to work toward "shared solutions to common problems.
Publication:  Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages


Central Association of Russian Teachers of America (CARTA)
Consolidates and coordinates the efforts of the Russian language and area studies in order to enhance and expand Russian studies in the region, provide professional and moral support for existing programs, and to create new programs of need and interest to students at all levels of public, private, secondary, and higher educational institutions. C.A.R.T.A. officially includes the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas but is open for professionals from other states.

Canadian Association of Slavists
Interdisciplinary gathering of scholars and professionals whose interests focus on the social, economic and political life of the Slavic peoples, as well as their languages, diverse cultures and histories.
Publication: Canadian Slavonic Papers


Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA)
Affiliate of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) and pursues a fourfold mission:
to promote Cognitive Linguistics, and particularly to encourage graduate students  and junior faculty to pursue research on the Slavic languages in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics; to encourage and support training in research methodologies, including experimental methods, data collection, corpus methods, and statistical analysis; to encourage practical application of Cognitive Linguistics, particularly in the development of pedagogical materials for the teaching of Slavic languages; to encourage interdisciplinary applications of Cognitive Linguistics, particularly in the area of literary analysis.
Publication: Cognitive Linguistics
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