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Project Director: Wenhao Diao, University of Arizona. In conjunction with the University of Arizona’s Department of East Asian Studies. Free modules for teachers and students to use as supplementary resources for the learning and teaching of Chinese. These materials are based on Chinese L2 learners’ actual engagement in authentic language use outside of the classroom, and are focused on recurring topics and patterns of organization in conversations between American study abroad students and their Chinese peers in the dormitory (the Dorm...
Project Directors: Liudmila Klimanova, University of Arizona; with Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University The LLC COMMONS is a web portal prototype for open source materials for online and hybrid use, built to respond to a national survey of online course offerings nationwide in Russian and Slavic Studies. The portal features: Searchable library of online authentic materials for teachers of Slavic languages (categorized per linguistic topic and level, including an internal search engine); Repository of fully developed interactive online modules\activities\media...
Project Director: Shelley Staples, University of Arizona Learner corpora can support exciting new SLA research and applications to language teaching. Although there are numerous learner corpora of English, less commonly taught languages still lack resources of this sort to support delivery of “high-quality, pedagogically sound, and cost effective instruction”. The MACAWS project has created a digital resource and online platform where researchers and instructors will have access to an online repository of students’ assignments (texts, spoken discourse, and multimedia products such...
CERCLL is leading a new initiative on campus in this series of events and professional learning communities for the University of Arizona’s faculty, administrators and graduate students to explore today’s best practices and models for foreign language, literature and culture departments. We are hosting the launch event on Friday, September 27, 2019 (2:00-5:00 pm, with reception following) in the Student Union. It will feature world-renowned speakers who have a record of innovative program development, and who will share transdisciplinary initiatives...
Our students live in a global world. The opportunities we offer through literature in our classrooms can invite them into the richness of cultural diversity and global communities. To globalize the text exemplar lists included in standards documents that guide instruction in many states and countries, we developed global book lists of fiction and nonfiction books organized by grade level bands and measures of complexity. These lists include books paired by theme and complexity with the exemplars from Common Core...
We are pleased to announce the recipients of two CERCLL fellowship programs. Click on the fellowship program subtitles for abstracts and further details about the projects to be funded and the materials that will be available on CERCLL’s website next year. CERCLL Faculty Fellows: Julieta Fernandez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with Janice McGregor, Department of German Studies: Discourses of Access to Study Abroad Hongyi Jia, Department of East Asian Studies: Curricular Development of K-12 Chinese Immersion Program in Arizona...
Inviting applications from University of Arizona faculty for 2019 Research Fellow grants. The application deadline for awards to be made for work taking place in Summer 2019 is March 25, 2019. The CERCLL Faculty Research Grant program promotes scholarly work connected to the mission of CERCLL as a Title VI National Language Resource Center, namely to research and develop the teaching of culture, language and literacy, especially within less commonly taught languages (LCTLs). These awards provide up to $5,000 to...
Exploring International and Intercultural Understanding through Global Literature by Susan Corapi and Kathy Short, provides examples of how K-12 teachers work together in study groups to integrate global children’s and adolescent literature in their schools. The guide includes links to teacher vignettes that provide rich details of classroom experiences and books that encourage global perspectives along with structures for teacher study groups Offered open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, the guide can be downloaded here. This...
Project Director: Dr. Linda R. Waugh (U Arizona) [In collaboration with CMES, CLAS, Partnership Across Languages, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese (UA); NMELRC] Description: Professional development is needed to enable teachers to help their students develop proficiency in the target language and an understanding of the cultures associated with it. This project will allow CERCLL to offer learning opportunities that directly respond to the needs of K-16 educators as identified in the CERCLL practitioner needs survey. The increasing number of schools...
The University of Arizona and CERCLL will be well-represented at ACTFL 2017 in Nashville! Take a look at the UA and CERCLL-affiliated presentations here and plan your schedule! CERCLL will be sharing a booth with the other fifteen Title VI-funded Language Resource Centers (LRCs) in the exhibit hall at ACTFL–come and visit us in booth 1333 near the exhibitor workshops. CERCLL’s Co-Directors Beatrice Dupuy and Chantelle Warner will be there giving a presentation about some of the teaching resources we have...