African Language Teachers Association

About ALTA

THE ALTA MISSION

To develop a field of African Language Teaching where members can share common interests and concerns having to do with the study of African languages;
To identify for each African language, with priority given to those most commonly studied, sets of learning materials for beginning, intermediate and advanced study;
To establish needs and priorities for new learning materials and resources, both generic and for specific languages, and then to develop new learning materials for these languages;
To provide training on pedagogy, computer use, and language program design to its members;
To link efforts of teachers and researchers in Africa with those outside of Africa.

Contact the Secretariat:
1900 E 10th Street, 708 Eigenmann Hall

Bloomington, IN 47406

Tel: 8128564185; Fax: 8128564189