CFP: 2026 Intercultural Competence Conference

We are accepting proposals for the 2026 ICC Conference! Intercultural Competence in a Rapidly Changing World: Supporting Sustainable Futures for All The Tenth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural CompetenceFebruary 27 – March 1,...

CFP: 2025 CERCLL Faculty Fellowships

Apply for a 2025 CERCLL Faculty Fellowship! Application deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025. 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...

5th Annual UofA Language Fair!

The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) will host the annual U of A Language Fair on April 3, 2025.   Get ready for an amazing event at The University of Arizona that’s all about celebrating the diverse range of...

Language Teacher Symposium (LaTeS) – Spring 2025

Effective Strategies and Activities for Interpersonal Communication   Presenter: Cecile Nedellec (San Diego State University) Date: February 15, 2025 Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (AZ Time) LaTeS is a biannual in-person workshop that takes place at the University...

Multilingual Making in a Second-Language Poetry Club

This new OER is a culmination of conversations, pedagogical practices, and ways of being together that developed as a collaboration between co-authors Borbala Gaspar and Chantelle Warner (at the University of Arizona) and the engaged group of students who took part in...

CERCLL is at ACTFL 2024!

Representatives from CERCLL will be at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) convention in Philadelphia this year. There are several ways to learn about our resources and projects there:   Exhibit Hall Show Visit us in the exhibit hall...

Language Teacher Symposium (LaTeS) – Fall 2024

Mindfulness Practices for Creating an Inclusive Classroom   Presenter: Angelika Foerst (Chandler High School) LaTeS is a biannual in-person workshop that takes place at the University of Arizona; this Fall, we are offering a virtual attendance option for the...

Virtual Field Experiences in the WELL project

Click here to visit the WELL website The Worlds of Experience: Immersive International Virtual Field Experiences with Language Teachers project is a Professional Development initiative that has guided educators across the US to create Virtual Field Experiences (VFEs)...

CFP: Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference

Call for Proposals Arts and Education without Borders Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference 2025 Date: January 17-18, 2025 Location: The University of Arizona New deadline for proposals: October 28, 2024 at 11:59 pm Arizona/PDT View the full CFP for...

CFP – 2024 PLONS: Bringing Ungrading to Language Teaching

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 fostering linkages between language teaching,...

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...