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This Fall, CERCLL offered a series of professional development webinars for language educators with an emphasis on career-focused language development. In 2019, ACTFL’s Making Languages Our Business report revealed the high and growing demand for language skills in the workplace with 9 out of 10 employers surveyed citing a reliance on bilingual employees and 1 in 3 reporting a language skills gap. Curricular offerings of language programs are not always balanced in a way that prioritizes the kinds of skills,...
We have extended the deadline by which full-time K-12 educators and full-time graduate students (and some recent graduates) can apply for a scholarship. The new deadline is December 8, 2023. Scholarships cover registration fees for the conference for graduate students; and registration fees for the conference and/or workshops for K-12 teachers. K-12 teachers are also eligible to apply for up to two nights of lodging if they are attending the whole conference. Details about eligibility and how to apply are...
Each year, CERCLL hosts one or more series of professional learning webinars for language educators, with topics selected from among requests that we have received from participants in our previous professional development events. This Spring, the series focuses on AI integration in the language classroom: Rebooting Language Educ-AI-tion In recent years, cutting edge tech tools such as neural machine translation (NMT), generative AI and extended reality (XR) have given rise to a mixture of excitement and concern as to their...
CERCLL and the other fifteen Title VI-funded Language Resource Centers will be at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) convention in November. There are several ways to learn about us there! Exhibit Hall Show Visit us in the exhibit hall in booth 4638, Friday November 17 to Sunday November 19, 2023, where all sixteen of our centers will have materials on hand to let you know what resources and professional development opportunities are available now, and...
Registration is open for the Ninth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence Intercultural Learning, Global Citizenship and Peacebuilding February 22-25, 2024At the University of Arizona and Online Important dates to know: Extended Scholarship Application Deadline: December 8, 2023Scholarships are available for K12 teachers (covering registration and lodging) and graduate students (registration). See application details. Early Bird Rate Registration Deadline: December 18, 2023 PLENARY PRESENTATIONS: Larisa Kasumagić Kafedžić, University of Sarajevo, Peace in Language Education: A Romanticized Ideal...
University of Arizona Regents Professor Kathy G. Short works with K-8 educators to internationalize their curriculum, with the Worlds of Words Center of Global Literacies and Literatures (WOW). Her various CERCLL projects began with the creation of CERCLL in 2006, and the production of language and culture kits that are sent into regional schools, often with international consultants that train teachers in their application in the classroom. Through research associated with this work, Dr. Short has collaborated on several free...
Globalizing the Community College Curricula (GCCC) Embracing Counternarratives for Global Learning GCCC 2024 Annual Conference Tucson, Arizona January 19-20, 2024 Proposal Submission Deadline: October 29th, 2023 Interested in submitting a proposal? Click here for more details –> GCCC 2024 Proposal The University of Arizona’s U.S. Department of Education Title VI Centers — Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), Center for Latin America Studies (CLAS) and Center...
CERCLL offered a series of professional development webinars for language educators over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year, in which presenters brought newer, multiliteracies approaches to address traditional topics in language teaching. Click on the titles below to access the recordings, slides and resources for the webinars in this series. You can also view all the recordings in our YouTube webinar playlist! Bruna Sommer-Farias (Michigan State University) Genre Pedagogies in the World Language Classroom This webinar...
LaTeS is a biannual in-person workshop at which K-12 language teachers can share ideas and issues that are specific to their community, and leave with methods and materials that they can implement into their own classrooms. Arizona Continuing Education is available. There is limited travel funding available for participants who wish to participate from outside the Tucson area, See all the details below! Small Changes – Big Impact, Classroom Strategies for More Inclusion Presented by Sara Lee, Arizona State University...
A new website has been created for a CERCLL project by Mahmoud Azaz (University of Arizona). These resources are intended for Arabic instructors at the K-12 and college levels, who are teaching Intermediate language classes. The project was co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Graduate College at the University of Arizona. The Tasks for Linguistic Complexity in Arabic website is designed to help teachers to facilitate the enhancement of learner linguistic complexity–to aid students in creating...