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Transforming Language Teaching Materials: From Selection and Adaptation, to Creation, to Successful Implementation
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...

CFP: 2025 CERCLL Faculty Fellowships
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...

2025 Summer Institute – Forced and Chosen Journeys: Refugee and Immigrant Experiences in Youth Literature
Leaders: Regents Professor Kathy G. Short, Dr. Dorea Kleker, and Narges Zandi (University of Arizona) Refugee Expert: Dr. Julie Kasper (University of Arizona) Authors: Kao Kalia Yang and Shifa Saltagi Safadi June 2-5, 2025 9 am – 4 pm at Worlds of Words, at the...

5th Annual UofA Language Fair!
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...

Free Webinar Series: Current Directions in Postsecondary Language Program Administration
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,...

Fall 2024 Webinar Series Recordings: Virtual Exchange in Language Education
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...

Language Teacher Symposium (LaTeS) – Spring 2025
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...

Multilingual Making in a Second-Language Poetry Club
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...

CERCLL is at ACTFL 2024!
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...

Learning Hindi Online through Current Social Issues
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...
