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The MODES Framework: Scaffolding Digital Multimodal Composing in the World Language Classroom
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...
Footprints: Geo-Literacies and Place-Based Language Learning
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...
2025 CERCLL Faculty Research Fellows
Two CERCLL Faculty Research Fellowships are funded in 2025. Congratulations to CERCLL Faculty Fellows Dr. Yousra Abourehab, and to Drs. Sandiway Fong and Liudmila Klimanova!
El-Mumtaaz, Contemporary Beginning Egyptian Arabic
"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...
ICC 2026 Plenary Speakers Announced!
Three plenary presenters will speak at our Tenth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, the theme of which is Intercultural Competence in a Rapidly Changing World: Supporting Sustainable Futures for All. ➣ Read their...
Spring 2025 Webinar Series Recordings: Current Directions in Postsecondary Language Program Administration
Current Directions in Postsecondary Language Program Administration This series was 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...
Empowering High School and College Students to Learn and Maintain Languages for Life Through Courses on Multilingualism
Presented by Peter Ecke (University of Arizona). Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 2-3:30 PM Arizona/MST (UTC -7). To see when it begins where you are, click here. Join us for an enlightening webinar with our own Dr. Peter Ecke! Discover how his successful decade-long...
CFP: 2025 CERCLL Faculty Fellowships
We have extended the application period for the 2025 CERCLL Faculty Research Fellowships by one week! Extended application deadline: Monday, April 7, 2025. The CERCLL Faculty Fellows program promotes scholarly work connected to the mission of CERCLL as a Title VI...
Artificial Intelligence & Online Tools in Middle East Language Pedagogy: Opportunities, Challenges, & Risks
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) View recordings for the Virtual day (the program is linked at the button below). Recently, Artificial...
CFP: 2026 Intercultural Competence Conference
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,...