This is the onboarding course for Peace Corps Language and Cross-Cultural Facilitators, or LCFs.  As LCFs, you are at the very heart of Peace Corps training, opening the door to your communities and country by helping equip the Volunteers with the language and cultural know-how to thrive in their work and their daily lives.  Our hope is that this course will help you to understand what language training in Peace Corps is like, welcome you into the community of Peace Corps LCFs and provide you with some activities that will help guide you in understanding Communicative Language Teaching.

Learning local languages has long been considered fundamental to the success of Peace Corps Volunteers. With proficiency in language, Volunteers can more easily build the capacity of the community, share America with community members, and understand the community in which they work to bring back home. The adoption of technology, at the same time, has opened up the possibility of teaching and learning Peace Corps languages remotely.  With this opportunity, however, comes the need to support post staff and guide them in using LearningSpace to its maximum potential for language proficiency to develop.  And so, the Language Training Specialists at PC HQ have created this course to offer the principles and practices behind highly effective online language teaching.