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This new OER is a culmination of conversations, pedagogical practices, and ways of being together that developed as a collaboration between co-authors Borbala Gaspar and Chantelle Warner (at the University of Arizona) and the engaged group of students who took part in a year-long series of extracurricular gatherings, which served as an exploratory space for the ideas shared in this handbook. The poetry club evolved from the authors’ shared desire to create a space adjacent to the classrooms in their...
Representatives from CERCLL will be at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) convention in Philadelphia this year. There are several ways to learn about our resources and projects there: Exhibit Hall Show Visit us in the exhibit hall at booth 519, Friday November 22 to Sunday November 24, 2024, where all sixteen of the Title VI-funded Language Resource Centers will have materials on hand to let you know what resources and professional development opportunities are available...
Currently under development, this project has created resources that offer authentic materials to examine contemporary social issues in India, touching upon linguistic provisions, cultural diversity and more. The materials are being developed by Dr. Jieun Ryu (Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Arizona), Dr. Poonam Chauhan (Continuing Lecturer in the ME/SA Studies program, University of California Davis), and Srijeet Mukherjee (Hindi Language Consultant, Fulbright FLTA 2017-2018). The elementary language level has been completed: it includes Devanagari typing instruction, five individual lessons,...
Mindfulness Practices for Creating an Inclusive Classroom Presenter: Angelika Foerst (Chandler High School) LaTeS is a biannual in-person workshop that takes place at the University of Arizona; this Fall, we are offering a virtual attendance option for the first time. It is intended for K-12 language teachers to share ideas and issues that are specific to their community; they will leave LaTeS events with methods and materials that they can implement into their own classrooms. Arizona Continuing Education credit is...
Click here to visit the WELL website The Worlds of Experience: Immersive International Virtual Field Experiences with Language Teachers project is a Professional Development initiative that has guided educators across the US to create Virtual Field Experiences (VFEs) for their classrooms, bringing together digital technologies and cultural learning to advance participating teachers’ and their students’ global and digital literacies. The goal is to encourage a global perspective and open doors to multilingualism, for students at the K-12 and community college...
A free online workshop: October 18-20, 2024. This workshop invites language experts across the US to share evidence-based insights on how to help recruit and sustain enrollments in critical LCTLs. The initial focus is at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, with presentations expanding to LCTLs at other institutions. Invited presenters will provide strategies for student recruitment, retention, and success, and discuss ways in which they have integrated AI and other platforms into their classes. October 18, Panel 1: Hispanic-Serving Institution Missions Karla...
Call for Proposals Arts and Education without Borders Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference 2025 Date: January 17-18, 2025 Location: The University of Arizona New deadline for proposals: October 28, 2024 at 11:59 pm Arizona/PDT View the full CFP for GCCC 2025 here. The University of Arizona’s U.S. Department of Education Title VI Centers — Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), Center for Latin America Studies (CLAS) and Center for...
Join us in our Fall series of free professional learning webinars for language educators! Often, opportunities to connect with peers abroad are limited to students who have the time and financial means to travel and stay for extended periods of time. Open Doors reports that less than 10% of U.S. undergraduates study abroad. As a low-cost or no-cost opportunity, virtual exchange has the potential to enable all students to connect and collaborate with peers from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds...
Digital Multimodal Composition in Language Education The call to broaden our understanding of literacy is not new. Over the past 20 years, scholars have been calling for the need to extend the range of literacy practices by bringing new forms of representation and communication, especially those of the digital age, into the L2 classroom. This call reflects a view of communicative competence which today is understood as multimodal communicative competence. The multimodal turn in language education is an outcome of the...
The word plons in Dutch describes the noise made by something splashing into a surface and is thus an apt name for the Professional Learning Online Network Space (PLONS), which is designed to create a ripple effect, by fostering linkages between language teaching, research and practice, and shared ideas and resources between educators. Intended for language educators in K-16 settings: elementary/middle school, high school and post-secondary institutions. 2024 PLONS: Bringing Ungrading to Language Teaching This PLONS is meant...