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Translating Google Translate: Instructional Strategies for Machine Translation in the Language Classroom A site dedicated to research-based pedagogical approaches to machine translation in language teaching and learning. By Emily Hellmich and Kimberly Vinall (University of California Berkeley). ➣ Visit the resource website, where you will find instructional strategies for how to navigate machine translation and related online tools in the second language classroom. In Fall 2021, Emily Hellmich (UC Berkeley Language Center; formerly University of Arizona) and Kimberly Vinall (UC Berkeley...
The UArizona Language Fair is back! After a three-year break caused by covid, we are excited to bring the Fair back to the University of Arizona Mall on April 6, 11 am to 2 pm! The Fair connects students with University of Arizona departments and programs representing the languages and cultures taught on our campus. This event is designed to raise the visibility of the wide range of languages that students study at The University of Arizona and is timed to take place just...
Announcing the 2022 CERCLL Faculty Fellows Competition! Apply for an award by the March 18th deadline. 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 2022, we particularly invite proposals focused upon research related to social justice and diversity, multimodal pedagogies, and teaching for interculturality, especially projects which...
This Spring CERCLL is offering several webinars for language educators. Participants who attend live can request a certificate of attendance for 1.5 hours of continuing education for each of these events; also, live attendees will be contacted after each webinar with information about how to apply for a digital badge. Translanguaging Pedagogies in the World Language Classroom Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 10-11:30 AM (Arizona) To see the time of this event where you are, visit: https://tinyurl.com/Trentmantime. Webinar presented by Emma...
An open educational resource website Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Second Language Teaching (DEI-SLT) has been created as a CERCLL resource, by Juan Godoy-Peñas (University of Cincinnati) and Claudia Quevedo-Webb (Northwestern University). The website holds resources detailing how to create a curriculum that combines the teaching of languages and social justice topics, as well as examples of pedagogical materials that are ready to be used and modified for educators’ own classrooms. Resources and materials will be added periodically. The website also allows...
Registration is open for CERCLL’s eighth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, a virtual event taking place January 27-30, 2022, on the theme of Decentering Mobility in Intercultural Education: Engagement, Equity, and Access. This event will focus on the ways in which intercultural communication and the teaching and learning thereof have been shaped through mobility – both virtual and physical. In particular, presentations address how the changing state of intercultural communication has been shaped by a...
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...