Professional Associations

Being active in teacher professional associations is an important way to stay engaged, find collaborators, and continue to learn and grow as a teacher.

Here are some professional teacher associations for foreign language teachers:

• The Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (MaFLA)
• The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL)
• The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
• The Language Opportunity Coalition
• The American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
• The American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese (AATSP)
• The Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools (CLASS)
• The American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA)