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Language Program Direction Self-Study Modules
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,...

Fall 2021 Webinars and Online Workshops
This Fall CERCLL is offering several webinars and online workshops for language educators, most of which will be 90 minutes in length (the October 30 event is longer). Participants who attend live can request a certificate of attendance for 1.5 hours of continuing...

Teacher’s Guide to Incorporating Translation in the World Language Classroom
Incorporating Translation in the World Language ClassroomA Teacher's Guide to Best Practice by Dr. Sonia Colina and Sarah Albrecht, University of Arizona. Published as an OER in 2021, this handbook is designed to help teachers incorporate translation into their world...

Spring/Summer 2021 Webinar Recordings
In Spring/Summer 2021, CERCLL hosted two two-part professional development webinar series for language and culture educators that focused on Multi-Modal Literacies and Intercultural Communication in the L2 Classroom. In addition, directors and collaborators working on...

Intercultural Communicative Competence and Mobility: Perspectives on Virtual, Physical, and Critical Dimensions
Inspired by the 7th International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence organized by CERCLL in 2020, CERCLL Co-Directors Dr. Beatrice Dupuy and Dr. Chantelle Warner have edited a special issue of Intercultural Communication Education...

2021 CERCLL Fellows, Faculty and Graduate
We are pleased to announce the recipients and funded research projects in two CERCLL fellowship programs with awards for Faculty made in Summer 2021 and a Graduate Fellowship for Fall 2021. Congratulations to Dr. Liudmila Klimanova, Dr. Kris Knisely, and Jessica...

The Literary in the Everyday: A Literacy-based Approach for the Language Classroom
This educators’ handbook on Foreign Languages in the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE) is a culmination of ideas, resources, and pedagogies that have been developed over the past several years as a collaboration between Joanna Luks, Carl Blyth, Chantelle Warner, and...

Spring/Summer 2021 CERCLL Project Webinars
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) is part of a network of sixteen Language Resource Centers across the United States. Each with a different focus, these centers are funded by grants from the US Department of Education that...

CERCLL Projects and Pedagogical Tools at the Consortium of Middle East National Resource Centers’ Virtual Language Workshop
Consortium of Middle East National Resource Centers’ Virtual Language Workshop Transformative Paradigms in the Middle East Language Classroom: Learning, Pedagogy, and Curriculum Development The 2016 Western Consortium Middle East Language Workshop saw the importance...

Culture and Language Exchange (CLÉ )
In the absence of cultural gatherings, celebrations and events during the pandemic, CERCLL has asked friends and colleagues to share traditions that are important in their culture in our Culture and Language Exchange (CLÉ). These short videos are shared on CERCLL's...
