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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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