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Social Networking for Intercultural Competence
Project Director: Margherita Berti, University of Arizona These resources provide language educators with pedagogical strategies and practical suggestions for implementing social networking sites (SNSs) and social media for intercultural competence in beginner and...
CERCLL Graduate Fellow Competition: Deadline March 4
CERCLL is Inviting applications for the 2020 CERCLL Graduate Fellow program. Application deadline: March 4, 2020. The CERCLL Graduate Fellows Program is a one-semester professional development opportunity for foreign language GATs at the University of Arizona....

Intercultural Competence Conference
Intercultural Competence Conference Project Directors: Beatrice Dupuy and Chantelle Warner (UA).In collaboration with: the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), CMES , CIUA, COH, and SBS at the UA; and several other...

University of Arizona and CERCLL Projects Represented at ACTFL 2019
If you are going to the ACTFL convention in Washington DC, be sure to visit the Language Resource Centers' booth in the exhibit Hall, where you will find a plethora of information about resources and opportunities made available by the sixteen LRCs across the nation....

Instructional Design and Feature Film in Foreign Language Education
As an extension of the Film Clips for Foreign Language Culture and Literacy project, Dr. Mark Kaiser (Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center at the University of California Berkeley) considers the affordances of the film clip in the foreign language...

Dormtalk
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...

Online & Hybrid Course Portal for Slavic Languages & Literatures
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...

Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments – Writing & Speech (MACAWS)
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...

LiLaC: Literatures, Languages and Cultures in the 21st Century
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...

2019 CERCLL Fellows, Faculty and Graduate
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...
