2024 PLONS: Bringing Ungrading to Language Teaching

PLONS: Professional Learning Online Networks   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 Space (PLONS), which is designed to create a ripple effect, by...

2024 CERCLL Faculty Research Fellows

We are proud to have awarded two CERCLL Faculty Research Fellowships this year. Congratulations to CERCLL Faculty Research Fellows Dr. Melissa Fitch and Dr. Hongyi Jia! Melissa A. Fitch, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College...

Teaching Chinese in US K-12 Schools

An open website was created by Project Leaders Wenhao Diao (University of Arizona), Yang Xiao-Desai (San Francisco State University), and Yi Xu (University of Pittsburgh), to respond to the dearth of research focusing on FL education in K-12 contexts (Urlaub &...

Worlds of Experiences for Language Learning (WELL) Showcase

Worlds of Experiences for Language Learning (WELL) is an innovative project that aims to provide professional learning support to language teachers in designing immersive experiences to globalize their curriculum. Educators participating in the program come from K-16...

CFP: CERCLL Faculty Fellowship

Apply for a 2024 CERCLL Faculty Fellowship! Application deadline: Friday, March 29, 2024. 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...

Position Open: Student Outreach Assistant

We are seeking a Student Outreach Assistant to join our team this Spring! This position is for an undergraduate student enrolled in a program in-person at the University of Arizona. It is for the Spring 2024 semester, but there may be options to continue into June and...

4th Annual UArizona Language Fair!

The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) will host the annual UArizona Language Fair on April 17, 2024. For all the details, including the performance schedule and list of languages, cultures, and participating campus units (and...

Spring Webinar Series: Rebooting Language Educ-AI-tion

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 Spring, the series focuses on AI...

CERCLL will be at ACTFL 2023

CERCLL and the other fifteen Title VI-funded Language Resource Centers will be at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) convention in November. There are several ways to learn about us there! Exhibit Hall Show Visit us in the exhibit hall...

Register now for the Intercultural Competence Conference

Registration is open for the Ninth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence Intercultural Learning, Global Citizenship and Peacebuilding February 22-25, 2024At the University of Arizona and Online Important dates to know:...

Resources for K-8 Educators

University of Arizona Regents Professor Kathy G. Short works with K-8 educators to internationalize their curriculum, with the Worlds of Words Center of Global Literacies and Literatures (WOW). Her various CERCLL projects began with the creation of CERCLL in 2006, and...

GCCC 2024 Call For Proposals!

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...

Language Teacher Symposium (LaTeS) Fall 2023 – Sara Lee

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....

Tasks for Linguistic Complexity in Arabic

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...

Deadline Extended! ICC 2024 CFP

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...

2023 CERCLL Faculty Research Fellows

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...

Open Position: Communication and Social Media Assistant GA

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:...