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...

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...

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...

CFA: International Studies Partnership Program Fellowship

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...

UArizona Language Fair 2023

Join us for the annual UArizona Language Fair! Date: April 5, 2023 Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Location: University of Arizona Mall, across from the Memorial Student Union and Old Main The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL)...

Spring LaTeS 2023

LaTeS is back! May 6, 2023   CERCLL’s Language Teacher Symposium (LaTeS) is normally a biannual in-person workshop at which K-12 language teachers can share ideas and issues that are specific to their community, leaving with methods and materials that they...

Free Guide for Creating Intercultural Curriculum

Global Literacy Communities: Creating Curriculum That Is Intercultural The Worlds of Words Center of Global Literacies and Literatures (WOW), in partnership with the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), presents a free guide by...

CFP: CERCLL Faculty Fellowship

We are accepting applications for the 2023 CERCLL Faculty Fellows Competition! Apply for an award by the extended deadline! Monday, March 13, 2023. The CERCLL Faculty Fellows program promotes scholarly work connected to the mission of CERCLL as a Title VI National...

CERCLL Co-Director Beatrice Dupuy is GIDP Honored Faculty

Dr. Beatrice Dupuy, CERCLL Co-Director, has been recognized with the University of Arizona’s Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs (GIDP) Honored Faculty award! She was nominated for this award by the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program for her...

CERCLL Co-Director Chantelle Warner Receives Chatfield Award

We are excited to announce that Dr. Chantelle Warner, CERCLL Co-Director, has been recognized wth the Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher Award, from the University of Arizona’s College of Humanities. Dr. Warner was nominated for this award by a group of...

Extended Deadline: L2ML Call for Proposals

L2ML is accepting proposals for digital presentations! NEW Deadline to submit a proposal: January 12, 2023 Symposium dates: April 21-22, 2023 CERCLL is hosting the Second Language Multimodal Literacies Symposium (L2ML), an event that will bring together educators,...

Save the Date for ICC 2024!

The Ninth International Conference on theDevelopment and Assessment of Intercultural Competence Intercultural Learning, Global Citizenship and Peacebuilding The event takes place in February, 2024, with proposals due in summer, 2023. In 2015, The United Nations (UN)...

CERCLL Awarded a New Title VI Language Resource Center Grant

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...