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...

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)...

Learning Hindi Online through Current Social Issues

Currently under development, this project has created resources that offer authentic materials to examine contemporary social issues in India, touching upon linguistic provisions, cultural diversity and more. The materials are being developed by Dr. Jieun Ryu...

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 &...

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...

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...

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...

The Gender-Just Language Education Project

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...

Socioscientific Resources for LCTLs Classrooms

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...

Strategies for Machine Translation in the Language Classroom

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...

Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Second Language Teaching (DEI-SLT)

 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...

Language Program Direction Self-Study Modules

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,...

Global Communities Publication in WOW Stories

Through a CERCLL project, Worlds of Words offers annual grants for Global Communities–groups of educators that meet regularly to consider global literature, world languages, and ways of using these books in preK-12 classrooms. We are excited to announce that the...

Resources for Social Justice and Anti-Racism in the L2 Classroom

These materials were revised in summer, 2023. The protests initiated in June of 2020 expressed the anger and anguish experienced by those who experience racism and discrimination around the world and have initiated a global discussion about anti-racism and social...

Working with Texts Online

A resource created by Emily Hellmich, University of Arizona. Moving (quickly!) into online teaching environments does not mean the end of working with texts in the language, literature, and culture classroom.  And in some cases, it can be an opportunity to push...

Social Networking Sites for Intercultural Competence

Developed by Margherita Berti, this guide provides language educators with pedagogical strategies and practical suggestions for implementing social networking sites (SNSs) and social media in language courses to promote intercultural competence.­­ Modern technology...

Globalizing Text Exemplar Lists: Globalizing Reading Lists

Our students live in a global world. The opportunities we offer through literature in our classrooms can invite them into the richness of cultural diversity and global communities. To globalize the text exemplar lists included in standards documents that guide...

Intercultural Sojourns

Exploring Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Multinational Perspective – Alvino E. Fantini, Project Director; with assistance from Ilene Todd, Project Assistant; and Joana Almeida and Cláudia Figuereido, Statisticians, Brattleboro, Vermont 05302, USA....

Multiliteracies Framework for FL Teaching

A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching – Kate Paesani, Heather Willis Allen, and Beatrice Dupuy. Prentice Hall. (2015). Description: At a time when collegiate foreign language education is changing dramatically, A Multiliteracies...

ICC Conference Proceeding 2014

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence  Beatrice Dupuy & Linda Waugh (Eds.) Description: Papers selected from those presented at the 2014 conference at which the theme was Preparing and...