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August 10, 2022 CERCLL is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded federal funding from the US Department of Education that will renew its status as a Title VI Language Resource Center through August 2026. The highly competitive grant competition has resulted in sixteen new and continuing centers across the country; we are pleased to be included among this national network of centers! This is the fifth round of funding that CERCLL has received, to develop resources for teaching and...
This set of open resources was created by Dr. Kris Aric Knisely (University of Arizona) to support language educators in engaging with trans knowledges and proactively planning for gender justice. It guides these educators in teaching gender-inclusive and non-binary language (INL) in ways that engage with trans knowledges and are increasingly affirming to trans, nonbinary, and other non-cis people. Specifically, strategies for proactively planning to teach INL and for resistance thereto are presented via a number of open educational resources (OERs),...
Multiliteracies at the Museum: A Resource Book for Language Teachers An open educational resource created by Chantelle Warner (University of Arizona) & Richmond Embeywa (now Emory University) published by CERCLL, published in summer 2022). The guide for teachers includes an introductory section on how museum-based pedagogies can help to facilitate genre awareness, visual literacy, and critical intercultural thinking in a new language. There are also sets of sample lessons and materials in German, Swahili, and English. As open materials, the...
This set of resources includes an archive of contemporary Socioscientific Issues (SSI) as they manifest in Korean media and discourses, and a manual and webinar that train educators in their use. The materials were developed, piloted and refined by a group of educators at the University of Arizona, led by Dr. Sunyoung Yang in the Department of East Asian Studies. They are intended to introduce SSI topics into beginning and intermediate LCTLs classrooms—with a focus on Korean language and culture...
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...