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Leaders: Regents Professor Kathy G. Short, Dr. Dorea Kleker, and Narges Zandi, University of Arizona June 2-5, 2025 9 am – 4 pm at Worlds of Words, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona Join us for a four-day, in-person workshop to engage in experiences and books that invite children to immerse themselves in literature about refugee and immigrant experiences. In this interactive workshop, you will explore new picturebooks and novels for your work with students and participate in engagements...
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) will host the annual U of A Language Fair on April 3, 2025. Get ready for an amazing event at The University of Arizona that’s all about celebrating the diverse range of languages and cultures we have on campus. You don’t want to miss out on the chance to see all the awesome departments, programs, and centers representing languages from all around the world and spoken in our community....
Join us for 2025’s first series of FREE professional learning webinars for language educators! This series is planned to coincide with the publication of a new book forthcoming in 2025, The Routledge Handbook of Language Program Development and Administration, the editors of which (one of whom is CERCLL Director Beatrice Dupuy) will present the first, introductory webinar. The series will delve into some of the 52 chapters in this volume, to focus on practical issues in language program development...
Virtual Exchange in Language Education 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 on projects that model the encounters they will have in...
Effective Strategies and Activities for Interpersonal Communication Presenter: Cecile Nedellec (San Diego State University) Date: February 15, 2025 Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (AZ Time) LaTeS is a biannual in-person workshop that takes place at the University of Arizona. It is intended for K-12 language teachers to share ideas and issues that are specific to their community, and they will leave LaTeS events with methods and materials that they can implement into their own classrooms. Arizona Continuing Education credit is...
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...