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Worlds of Experiences for Language Learning (WELL) is an innovative project that aims to provide professional learning support to language teachers in designing immersive experiences to globalize their curriculum. Educators participating in the program come from K-16 contexts across the US, with a few taking part internationally. The Spring session is coming to an end and it’s time for this semester’s participants to showcase their Virtual Field Experiences (VFEs). Their work has been amazing and their VFEs offer so many...
Presented by Kathy G. Short, Dorea Kleker, and Narges Zandi (University of Arizona). With Julie Kasper (Childhood Education International) and participating writer/illustrator Erika Meza, author of To the Other Side. May 30-31, 2024, at the University of Arizona Join us for an IN-PERSON two-day workshop at the University of Arizona, to engage in experiences and books that invite children to immerse themselves in literature about refugee and immigrant experiences! In this interactive workshop, participants will explore new picturebooks and novels...
LaTeS is a biannual 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 to those who participate. Read below to see the topics presented in 2024. Spring 2024 LaTeS, April 27: Creating an LGBTQ+-Inclusive Learning Environment for All Learners in the Language Classroom and Beyond Presented by Ben Fisher-Rodriguez (Seattle, Washington) Click the...
Apply for a 2024 CERCLL Faculty Fellowship! Application deadline: Friday, March 29, 2024. The CERCLL Faculty Fellows program promotes scholarly work connected to the mission of CERCLL as a Title VI National Language Resource Center: to research and develop the teaching of culture, language and literacy, especially within less commonly taught languages (LCTLs). In 2024, we particularly invite proposals focused upon research related to AI and critical digital literacy; critical global citizenship and language/culture learning; multimodal/multimedia literacies and LSP practice;...
We are seeking a Student Outreach Assistant to join our team this Spring! This position is for an undergraduate student enrolled in a program in-person at the University of Arizona. It is for the Spring 2024 semester, but there may be options to continue into June and in the 2024-2025 academic year. Please share with undergraduate students who might be interested in working with us! We’d like to hire an energetic person who can work well with individuals from diverse...
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) will host the annual UArizona Language Fair on April 17, 2024. For all the details, including the performance schedule and list of languages, cultures, and participating campus units (and images/videos from previous years!), visit https://cercll.arizona.edu/ualangfair/. This event is designed to raise the visibility of the wide range of languages that students study at The University of Arizona. Come see several departments, programs, and UA student clubs representing the languages and...
During the Fall 2023 semester, 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...
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...