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Author: C.Botelho Do you have a great idea for a project, but aren’t sure how to get started…or how to pay for it? Given ongoing cuts to education on the state and national levels, educators may find it necessary (or even be required) to actively seek “outside” funding for programs and courses. If you’ve never submitted a grant proposal, it may seem a daunting task…of course, for those who have submitted proposals, it’s still a daunting task. Fortunately, our own...
Project Directors: Jonathon Reinhardt (University of Arizona) and Julie Sykes (University of New Mexico) Digital games are socio-cultural practices and products, and gaming has become a mainstream, global cultural force. Applied linguists and FL educators have noted that gameplay is mediated by language use and social interaction, thereby also making it a potentially rich context for language acquisition. Off-the-shelf and online digital games are produced by a diversity of countries in a variety of languages. Despite the interest in and...
Project Director: Dr. Samira Farwaneh, Associate Professor, Arabic Language and Linguistics Project Assistant: Mohammed Tamimi, SLAT Ph.D. Candidate The L2 (or interlanguage) written Arabic corpus project is a gradually expanding database of written samples produced by L2 and heritage students studying Arabic as a second or foreign language. Most essays in the collection were initially handwritten, and later carefully typed by one assistant and proofread by another to ensure that errors in the originals were not unconsciously corrected by the...
From May 31 to June 10, 2011, CERCLL hosted its fourth summer series of professional development workshops tailored for K-16 language educators and university/graduate students. Educators were able to choose from six “hands-on” workshops that covered topics such as digital gaming, pedagogy of multiliteracies, teaching for literacy and semiotic awareness, visual arts, process drama and the basics of intercultural communication. Kicking off this year’s series was a two-day workshop that sprang from one of CERCLL’s core projects and was led...
Author: C. Botelho In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, Ian Wilhelm describes the 2013 White House budget proposal as a “mixed bag” for international educators. Of particular concern is the status of the Department of Education Title VI program, which funds 150 academic centers in the U.S., including CERCLL and 14 other Language Resource Centers (LRCs). President Obama would improve Title VI funding by 2.5% ($1.7 million) in the 2013 fiscal year. As Wilhelm notes, this “small increase [is] primarily to...
Each summer, CERCLL offers a series of professional development workshops designed to help language educators bring research-supported teaching techniques into their real-world classrooms. We call it our Summer Workshop Series (clever, right?). Inspired by the 2011 workshops, one teacher developed several creative projects over the past year. Her classes developed websites, recorded videos, played digital games and used social media in the service of learning a language while also exploring issues of culture and identity. Read about these projects and...
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