CERCLL was created as a Language Resource Center in 2006 with its first round of funding from the U.S. Department of Education. If you are interested in the resources completed in previous grant cycles, click here.

2022-2026 grant cycle: Clusters, areas, projects, and created resources:

 

I. Innovative Pedagogies, Curricula, and Materials:

Socially-Situated Materials for LCTLs

  • Developing Sociopragmatic Competence in L2 Arabic, Mahmoud Azaz (University of Arizona). To see a recent publication and learn more about what is coming from this project, click here.
  • A Corpus-based Chinese Language Textbook for Intercultural Communication, Wenhao Diao (University of Arizona), Yi Xu (University of Pittsburgh), Jie Zhang (University of Oklahoma)
  • Multimodal Persian Dictionary, Narges Nematollahi (Indiana University). A previous iteration of this dictionary is available here; an updated version will be available in 2025.
  • Learning Hindi Online through Current Social Issues, Jieun Ryu (University of Arizona), Poonam Chauhan (University of Arizona and University of California, Davis)
  • Foreigncy, Learning LCTLs with Current News. The original Foreigncy materials are here; the site is under development in 2024 and 2025.

L2 Multiliteracies in Action

  • Global Citizenship in Multiliteracies-Oriented L2 Curricula, Tara Hashemi (California State University, Fresno) and Beatrice Dupuy (University of Arizona)
  • Multiliteracies Language Teaching in World Language Classrooms, Kristen Michelson (Texas Tech University) and Bruna Sommer-Farias (Michigan State University)
  • A Framework for Scaffolding FL Students’ Digital Multimodal Composition, Blaine Smith (Vanderbilt University)

Intercultural Perspectives in K-12 Classrooms

New L2 Pedagogies

  • Bringing Ungrading to Language Learning Contexts, Nicole Coleman (Wayne State University) and Janice McGregor (University of Arizona):
  • Language and Culture Programs as Sites of Well-Being, Chantelle Warner (University of Arizona)
  • Making Gender-Just Language Education Happen, Kris Aric Knisely (University of Arizona). New research and resources related to the Gender-Just Language Education project coming in 2025.

 

II. Teaching and Learning Communities:

  • Language Teacher Symposia (LaTeS)
  • Professional Learning Online Network Spaces (PLONS)
  • Summer Institutes (the 2025 summer institute is an expansion of the hugely successful 2024 programming)

 

III. Knowledge Sharing and Building: