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Thank you to everyone who attended our 2024-2025 academic year webinars! We hosted 10 webinars with 14 presenters, and there were 3,407 registrants. View the recordings and partner resources by clicking on the series titles below. Or check out our YouTube playlist! https://tinyurl.com/cercllwebinars FALL: Virtual Exchange in Language Education ( 1 ) Overcoming Challenges and Barriers in Virtual Exchange, Robert O’Dowd (Universidad de Leon, Spain) ( 2 ) Advancing Civic Engagement through VE: Instructional Planning, Task Design,...
Currently under development, this project has created FREE resources that offer authentic materials to examine contemporary social issues in India, touching upon linguistic provisions, cultural diversity and more. Our aim is to empower the learner with the language skills to discuss these essential topics from diverse perspectives. The materials are being developed by Dr. Jieun Ryu (Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Arizona), Poonam Chauhan, MPhil (Continuing Lecturer in the Middle East / South Asia Studies program, University of California...
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. This PLONS is intended for language educators in K-16 settings: elementary/middle school, high school and post-secondary institutions. Application deadline: August 22, 2025. Click here to...
The extended proposal submission deadline is August 11, 2025 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 Online Plenary Presenters Vanessa Andreotti (University of Victoria) Irina Golubeva (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Ricardo Römhild (University of Passau) Details are on the conference website! In 2015, 191 United Nations (UN) member states adopted the...
Transforming Language Teaching Materials: From Selection and Adaptation, to Creation, to Successful Implementation 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...
These modules are for educators who are interested in becoming postsecondary language program directors (LPD) or in learning more about what LPDs do and the multiple facets of this complex and rewarding job. Although the intended audience is novice and aspiring LPDs, experienced LPDs will also gain from the various perspectives and resources provided, including the extensive LPD bibliography and project-sponsored activities at the International Language Teacher Education Conference hosted by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)....
The MODES Scaffolding Framework website is a free resource developed by Dr. Blaine Smith (Vanderbilt University) with the goal of helping teachers to integrate digital multimodal composing–visuals, sounds, text and movement–in the classroom. The site offers a guide for World Languages teachers to design instruction related to digital multimodal composing and specific strategies for supporting students during this process. On the MODES website, you will find a linked white paper that explains the benefits of this approach, and details the...
Footprints is an open educational resource (OER) designed to support educators in integrating local environments, community knowledge, and spatial awareness into language education. Co-created by Liudmila Klimanova (University of Arizona) and Lara Lomicka Anderson (University of South Carolina), with contributions from graduate students, this resource draws on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of applied linguistics, human geography, and pedagogy. The site offers a conceptual foundation for understanding and implementing place-based pedagogies and second language (L2) geoliteracies – practices of reading...
2025 CERCLL Faculty Research Fellows Congratulations to the recipients of two 2025 CERCLL Faculty Research Fellowships! Dr. Yousra Abourehab received one award, and the other went to Dr. Sandiway Fong with Dr. Liudmila Klimanova. Many thanks to the ten University of Arizona faculty members who reviewed the proposals submitted for this competition! Yousra Abourehab, Assistant Professor of Practice in International Studies in Education and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching; Department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies, College of Education: Multilingual...
“A research-based approach to learning beginner-level contemporary Egyptian Arabic that puts culture up front.” As part of the Title VI grant that funds CERCLL, Mahmoud Azaz and Ayman Mohamed have authored El-Mumtaaz: Contemporary Beginning Egyptian Arabic (Georgetown University Press, 2025), a textbook that bridges the gap between traditional Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) instruction and the Arabic your students want to speak. Built around ACTFL’s world readiness standards, authors Dr. Mahmoud Azaz (Director, University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies;...