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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...
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...