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The 2025 Consortium of Middle East National Resource Centers Language Workshop April 4-5, 2025 (in-person at the University of Arizona) and April 19, 2025 (online) Registration is still open for the virtual day on April 19. Register here. Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and online tools have opened new opportunities for how to think about language learning and teaching in a myriad of environments and contexts. In particular, AI has offered personalized and optimized tools and platforms which use chatbots and...
We are accepting proposals for the 2026 ICC Conference! Intercultural Competence in a Rapidly Changing World: Supporting Sustainable Futures for All The Tenth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural CompetenceFebruary 27 – March 1, 2026A Hybrid Event in Tucson, Arizona, and OnlineSubmission deadline: July 21, 2025 Plenary Presenters Vanessa Andreotti (University of Victoria) Maria-José de la Fuente (George Washington University) Ricardo Römhild (University of Passau) In 2015, 191 United Nations (UN) member states adopted the UN Sustainable...
Summer series of FREE professional learning webinars for language educators! Language teaching and learning materials encompass a rich spectrum of resources—from traditional textbooks and teacher/student-generated content to digital applications, and authentic realia—serving as foundational elements in language programs and classrooms worldwide. These materials bridge the gap between theoretical pedagogical approaches and practical classroom implementation, while providing essential structure to the learning experience. The effectiveness of these resources, however, hinges critically on language educators’ ability to thoughtfully select, adapt, and...
Apply for a 2025 CERCLL Faculty Fellowship! Application deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025. The CERCLL Faculty Fellows program promotes scholarly work connected to the mission of CERCLL as a Title VI National Language Resource Center: to research and develop the teaching of culture, language and literacy, especially within less commonly taught languages (LCTLs). In 2025, we particularly invite proposals focused upon research related to AI and critical digital literacy; critical global citizenship and language/culture learning; multimodal/multimedia literacies and Languages for...
Leaders: Regents Professor Kathy G. Short, Dr. Dorea Kleker, and Narges Zandi (University of Arizona) Refugee Expert: Julie Kasper (University of Arizona) Authors: Kao Kalia Yang and Shifa Saltagi Safad June 2-5, 2025 9 am – 4 pm at Worlds of Words, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona To register, click here. 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...
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...