CERCLL has received four, four-year cycles of funding as a Foreign Language Language Resource Center from the U.S. Department of Education, with the most recent awarded in Fall 2018. Work continues on projects from the several of the older cycles through the current one, with resources from all grant cycles available on our website (searchable here).

Clusters and projects in the 2018-2022 grant cycle:

• STEM Integration (CERCLL’s 2021 Summer Institute will focus on these projects)
  • • Advancing L2 Composition through Socioscientific Issues, Blaine Smith, Jill Castek and Emily Hellmich
    • Film School for Global Scientists, Jessica Summers, Jill Castek and Lia Falco
    • Socioscientific Issues in LCTLs Classrooms, Sunyoung Yang
• Linguistic Complexity through Multiliteracies
  • • Tasks for Linguistic Complexity in Arabic, Mahmoud Azaz
    • Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments-Writing and Speech (MACAWS), Shelley Staples
• Intercultural Perspectives
  • • Cross-Cultural Thinking Through Translation and Interpretation, Sonia Colina
    • Multiliteracies at the Museum, Chantelle Warner
    • Global Clubs towards Intercultural Curricula, Kathy Short
• Teaching and Learning Communities
  • • Teaching LCTLs in K-12 Schools, Wenhao Diao and Xiao Desai
    • Language Teacher Symposium (LaTeS)
    • Professional Development Webinar Series (with recordings and other resources)
    • Bold Research-Infused Teacher Education (BRITE) Talks
    • Summer Institutes
    • Professional Learning Online Networks (PLONS)
• Knowledge-Sharing and Building
  • • Intercultural Competence Conference
    • L2 Digital Literacies Symposium

The 2014-2018 projects (most with resources available now) are: 

1. 1. • American Study Abroad Students in China: Archiving Interactions between the American and Chinese Youth
      • Digital Literacies in L2 Language Education, a Hybrid Symposium for Research and Practice 
      • Film Clips for Foreign Language Culture and Literacy 
      • Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday  (FLLITE)
      • Globalizing the Common Core State Standards 
      • Intercultural Competence Conference 
      • Intercultural Sojourns: Assessing Outcomes and Impact 
      • K-16 Initiatives 
      • Reading Globally: Connecting K-8 Classrooms to the World  
      • Technology for Literacy