Tennessee Foreign Language Institute

TFLI is the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute, an agency of the State of Tennessee created by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1986 with the purpose of coordinating and providing foreign language skills needed by state government, doing research into the most effective methods of foreign language instruction and disseminating that information, and improving the language skills and teaching methods of foreign language instructors at all levels in the state’s schools, colleges and universities. Since then, TFLI’s activities have broadened to include the provision of interpretation and translation services, teaching English as a second language, and training teachers of English as a second language.