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These modules are for educators who are interested in becoming postsecondary language program directors (LPD) or in learning more about what LPDs do and the multiple facets of this complex and rewarding job. Although the intended audience is novice and aspiring LPDs, experienced LPDs will also gain from the various perspectives and resources provided, including the extensive LPD bibliography and project-sponsored activities at the International Language Teacher Education Conference hosted by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)....
This Fall CERCLL is offering several webinars and online workshops for language educators, most of which will be 90 minutes in length (the October 30 event is longer). Participants who attend live can request a certificate of attendance for 1.5 hours of continuing education for these events; also, live attendees will be contacted after each webinar with information about how to apply for a digital badge. Translating Google Translate: Instructional Strategies for Machine Translation in the Language Classroom Wednesday, September...
Incorporating Translation in the World Language ClassroomA Teacher’s Guide to Best Practice by Dr. Sonia Colina and Sarah Albrecht, University of Arizona. Published as an OER in 2021, this handbook is designed to help teachers incorporate translation into their world language classroom as a mediational tool for student acquisition of linguistic and cultural meaning. For the purposes of this manual, translation is understood as a process of mediation across languages rather than linguistic transfer or equivalence. Section 1 presents the...
In Spring/Summer 2021, CERCLL hosted two two-part professional development webinar series for language and culture educators that focused on Multi-Modal Literacies and Intercultural Communication in the L2 Classroom. In addition, directors and collaborators working on four CERCLL projects presented webinars in which they train educators to use the materials that they have created over recent years. These events were recorded, and several have accompanying materials including further resources that can be used in the classroom, and references that may be...
Inspired by the 7th International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence organized by CERCLL in 2020, CERCLL Co-Directors Dr. Beatrice Dupuy and Dr. Chantelle Warner have edited a special issue of Intercultural Communication Education entitled Intercultural communicative competence and mobility: Perspectives on virtual, physical, and critical dimensions (ICE Volume 4, Issue 1, April 2021). Many of the authors whose work is published within this volume have been presenters at the Intercultural Competence Conference and at other professional development...
We are pleased to announce the recipients and funded research projects in two CERCLL fellowship programs with awards for Faculty made in Summer 2021 and a Graduate Fellowship for Fall 2021. Congratulations to Dr. Liudmila Klimanova, Dr. Kris Knisely, and Jessica Tiegs. CERCLL Faculty Research Fellows: Liudmila Klimanova, Assistant Professor, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies Equity-Mindedness and Inclusion in Online Language Instruction: Teacher and Student Perspectives Do teachers and learners have similar or disparate notions of inclusive and...
This educators’ handbook on Foreign Languages in the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE) is a culmination of ideas, resources, and pedagogies that have been developed over the past several years as a collaboration between Joanna Luks, Carl Blyth, Chantelle Warner, and the many materials designers, workshop participants, and students who have been a part of the FLLITE project. By exploring and exploiting the apparent tension between the literary and the everyday, the FLLITE approach provides teachers and students with a set...
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) is part of a network of sixteen Language Resource Centers across the United States. Each with a different focus, these centers are funded by grants from the US Department of Education that are intended to promote and improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages. CERCLL creates resources and professional development opportunities that center on incorporating cultural awareness and multiliteracies into language teaching in multiple languages. Details about the...
Consortium of Middle East National Resource Centers’ Virtual Language Workshop Transformative Paradigms in the Middle East Language Classroom: Learning, Pedagogy, and Curriculum Development The 2016 Western Consortium Middle East Language Workshop saw the importance of preparing language learners to operate in an environment enriched with digital technologies. The 2021 Middle East National Resources Centers Virtual Language Workshop seeks to build on this knowledge and to examine the transformative paradigms emerging as we move more and more into the online realm....
In the absence of cultural gatherings, celebrations and events during the pandemic, CERCLL has asked friends and colleagues to share traditions that are important in their culture in our Culture and Language Exchange (CLÉ). These short videos are shared on CERCLL’s social networking websites to showcase the richness of culture present in our community. Videos are in the original language (without subtitles) in an effort to create an immersive language experience. Currently videos focus on language and culture in Chinese,...