CERCLL exhibited at the Arizona Language Association’s annual Fall conference, the theme of which this year was Empower and Engage. Information about our resources and professional development opportunities was available in the exhibit area, and Chantelle Warner, CERCLL CO-Director, and Kate Mackay, CERCLL Associate Director, spoke about Innovative Resources for Teaching Language, Literacy, and Culture that are available through CERCLL and the other fifteen Language Resource Centers.
Participants in our Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad to China–Education, Society and Globalization in China: A Collaborative Teacher Training Program–took part in a pre-departure workshop that introduced them to language and culture (Navigating cultural shocks in China; Understanding China’s education; Chinese youth and society), and during which they collaborated with the Chinese peers with whom they had an ongoing relationship during the in-country portion of the project.
Additional details about the program are here.
Strengthening your Core: Practices to Support Students’ Language Development
by Kristin Davin (University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Department of Middle, Secondary and K12 Education), who will be presenting on ACTFL’s core practices.
Participants will engage in activities that foster their understanding of how to choose appropriate authentic texts and ways to check students’ understanding of those texts. They will also develop and share oral interpersonal communication tasks that foster spontaneous communication and negotiation of meaning. Participants will leave this workshop with a variety of interpretive and interpersonal communication tasks that they can immediately carry out in their classrooms.
This professional development workshop in CERCLL’s biannual LAnguage TEacher Symposium (LaTeS) for K-12 teachers provides practical applications for the classroom and includes Arizona Continuing Education. The workshop is free, but registration is required to attend.
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy launched the UA Language Fair, an event designed to raise the visibility of the wide range of languages that students study at The University of Arizona, and open to all. Departments, programs, and clubs representing language and cultures taught at UA applied for table space to showcase their languages, as well as small grants ($100-$150) to support the purchase of materials for activities or treats for distribution at these tables. Further details about the 2019 language fair and a video of the event are here.
Are you a language educator in Arizona? Then join us for this informal meeting of language teachers, ready to share what they learned at the ACTFL convention last month! Bring your ideas and resources, and share with / learn from your peers.
This event in the AZLA Café series is cosponsored by the Arizona Language Association (AZLA) and the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy at the University of Arizona (CERCLL).
With free food and a drawing!
It will take place in Tucson–exact location TBA depending upon how many people RSVP. Please do so by Wednesday December 12 at Noon.
CERCLL exhibits annually at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) convention. We share a booth with the other fifteen Language Resource Centers (LRCs) across the U.S., where the numerous materials created by our centers are displayed for a national community of language educators. Find a searchable database of resources created and events hosted by the sixteen centers on our common LRC website.
Leveraging the Power of the Language and Intercultural Can-Dos
by Jacque Bott Van Houten, world language Specialist for Jefferson County Public Schools (Louisville, KY), and previous World Language consultant at the Kentucky Department of Education, president of ACTFL, and president of the National Network for Early Language Learning and the National Council of State Supervisors for Languages (NCSSFL).
This professional development workshop in CERCLL’s biannual LAnguage TEacher Symposium (LaTeS) for K-12 teachers provides practical applications for the classroom and includes Arizona Continuing Education. The workshop is free, but registration is required to attend.
Participation, a long-standing assessment category on language syllabi, has found a new conceptual life over the last few decades as digital literacies practices have become a part of everyday life and learning. This symposium aims to contribute to discussions of the role of digital literacies in second language learning and teaching and biliteracy development, by considering the ways in which technologically-mediated communication can enable new forms of participation and access, but also the ways in which participation in digital spaces is rarely full and equitable, but is more often than not fraught with questions of legitimacy and symbolic power.
We are currently accepting proposals for virtual presentations. See the CFP for details. Submission deadline: May 21, 2018.
CERCLL will be found in the exhibit area of the Arizona Language Association’s annual Fall conference, the theme of which this year is Building Proficiency: Putting It All Together. If you are attending the conference, come see information about our resources and professional development opportunities.
- CERCLL Summer Workshop Series
- Intercultural Competence Conferences
- Digital Literacies in and beyond the L2 Classroom: A Hybrid Symposium on Research and Practice (October 2014)
- Multilingual, 2.0? (April 13-15, 2012)
General Professional Development and Other Events
Lectures and Cultural Events
CERCLL sponsors and co-sponsors numerous public events throughout the academic year. If you would like to receive announcements about these and other language-related opportunities, join CERCLL’s mailing list here.
CERCLL’s NSF Grant and Related Events
A UA’s Linguistics symposium was about the National Science Foundation grant from the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program that CERCLL received in 2013. Jon Reinhardt spoke about the digital materials produced by the project in “Augmented Reality Mobile Games for Language Learning and Revitalization”. Access the presentation here. (A closed symposium for Native American educators took place in Fall 2013 and was followed by a workshop on the Fort Mohave reservation on the CA/AZ border in February, 2014, while CERCLL’s June 7th, 2014, workshop also covered some of the topics of this project; there was a presentation in American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)’s summer series in both 2014 and 2015 as well.)
Summer Workshop Series and the LATeS Symposium
CERCLL hosts professional development workshops each summer, as well as an annual language teacher symposium (LATeS).
Fall 2013 Workshops
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The first of two workshops presented with the Arabic Flagship program at the University of Arizona took place on December 14, 2013: Innovative Technology in the Language Classroom
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CERCLL began a relationship with the Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona that will bring professional development opportunities to Chinese teachers. The first workshop took place on December 7, 2013: Training Chinese Teachers in Communicative Language Teaching, presented by University of Arizona Assistant Professor Wenhao Diao. See CERCLL’s blog entry about this workshop.
Symposium on Indigenous Knowledge and Digital Literacies
In July 2013, CERCLL was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation through its Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program. The symposium and workshops were conceived as an extension to CERCLL’s Games to Teach Project, bringing digital gaming to a new audience for CERCLL–the Native American community. It is co-led by one of the Games to Teach project directors, Dr. Jonathon Reinhardt, and by Dr. Susan Penfield, who was previously CERCLL’s Research Coordinator. CERCLL is partnering with the University of Arizona’s American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) for the first time, and bringing CERCLL’s activities to underserved communities through this program. See CERCLL’s blog entry on the symposium.
U.S. Department of Education Annual Bus Tour
CERCLL was included in the U.S. Department of Education’s 2013 bus tour which was intended to highlight early learning and “teachers as leaders”, among other things. Dr. Brenda Dann-Messier, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education and Acting Assistant Secretary of Education, and Dr. Sharon Lee Miller, Director of the Division of Academic and Technical Education, took part in a roundtable at the University of Arizona on September 11, 2013. See CERCLL’s blog entries on the topic.