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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 Fall, the series focuses 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...
We have extended the deadline for proposals to be submitted for the Ninth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence (ICC), the theme of which is: Intercultural Learning, Global Citizenship and Peacebuilding ICC 2024 is a hybrid event taking place February 22-25, 2024, in Tucson, Arizona, and online. New proposal submission deadline: August 4, 2023. Visit the conference website for all the details: http://ICC.Arizona.edu. Plenary Speakers: Larisa Kasumagić Kafedžić, University of Sarajevo Peace in Language Education: A...
We are excited to be funding four CERCLL Faculty Research Fellowships this year: congratulations to CERCLL Faculty Research Fellows Dr. Jhonatan Henao-Muñoz, Dr. Liudmila Klimanova, Dr. Shelley Staples, and Dr. Phyllis Taoua! Jhonatan Henao-Muñoz, Assistant Professor of Practice, W.A. Franke Honors College Creating Inclusive Spanish Language OER for Additional & Heritage Language Classrooms Over the last decade, there has been a growing focus on Inclusive Spanish Language, consisting of the use of non-normative forms such as latin@, latine, and latinx....
The half-time Communication and Social Media Assistant position is a Graduate Research Assistant for the 2023-2024 academic year, for which University of Arizona graduate students can apply. The position will be shared equally by the Title VI centers at the UArizona: the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). The new hire will work with the...
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! Kate Paesani (University of Minnesota) Using Language Forms to Communicate About Texts: A Multiliteracies Perspective...
Curriculum Development Support for Middle Eastern or Foreign Language Topics Extended Application Deadline: June 5, 2023 Faculty from community colleges in Arizona and New Mexico are eligible to apply for these awards. This fellowship program supports faculty from community colleges in Arizona and New Mexico, who wish to work collaboratively with colleagues at the University of Arizona main campus, on projects aimed to upgrade foreign language courses or to internationalize community college course curricula with Middle Eastern content. Faculty from...
2023 Call for PLONS Participants: Conceptualizing and Creating the Syllabus A project by The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) and the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), May 29 to August 7, 2023 Led by Beatrice Dupuy (CERCLL Co-Director, University of Arizona) and Elyse Petit (Santa Rosa Junior College, California) The word plons in Dutch describes the noise made by something splashing into a surface and is thus an apt name for the Professional Learning Online Network...
The Ninth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence Intercultural Learning, Global Citizenship and Peacebuilding In 2015, The United Nations (UN) adopted a 2030 agenda, which included peace at its core. Based on this blueprint, the UN member states agreed to… Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. Peacebuilding here is focused at the macrolevel of government actors and...
Join us for the annual UArizona Language Fair! Date: April 5, 2023 Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Location: University of Arizona Mall, across from the Memorial Student Union and Old Main The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) will host the annual UArizona Language Fair on April 5, 2023, an event designed to raise the visibility of the wide range of languages that students study at The University of Arizona. Departments, programs, and UA student clubs representing the...
LaTeS is back! May 6, 2023 CERCLL’s Language Teacher Symposium (LaTeS) is normally a biannual in-person workshop at which K-12 language teachers can share ideas and issues that are specific to their community, leaving with methods and materials that they can implement into their own classrooms. Because of the pandemic, we have not been able to host this event since 2019, and we are excited to be back in-person with LaTeS once again! Performance-Based Activities for the World...