In 2022, CERCLL was awarded its fifth, four-year cycle of funding as a Title VI Language Resource Center from the U.S. Department of Education, for work that began in August, 2022. For details about the new projects and initiatives, see our blog post here. Projects from several older cycles continue, with resources from all grant cycles available on our website (searchable here).

Clusters and projects in the newest, 2022-2026 grant cycle:

I. Innovative Pedagogies, Curricula, and Materials:

Socially-Situated Materials for LCTLs –

• Mahmoud Azaz (University of Arizona): Developing Sociopragmatic Competence in L2 Arabic (to see a recent publication and learn more about what is coming from this project, click here)
• Wenhao Diao (University of Arizona), Yi Xu (University of Pittsburgh), Jie Zhang (University of Oklahoma): A Corpus-based Chinese Language Textbook for Intercultural Communication
• Narges Nematollahi (Indiana University): Multimodal Persian Dictionary (a previous iteration of this dictionary is available here; an updated version will be available in 2025)
• Jieun Ryu (University of Arizona), Poonam Chauhan (University of Arizona and UC Davis): Learning Hindi Online through Current Social Issues
• Foreigncy, Learning LCTLs with Current News (the original Foreigncy materials are here; the site is under development in 2024 and 2025)

L2 Multiliteracies in Action –

• Tara Hashemi (CSU Fresno) and Beatrice Dupuy (University of Arizona): Global Citizenship in Multiliteracies- Oriented L2 Curricula in Multiliteracies-Oriented L2 Curricula
• Kristen Michelson (Texas Tech University) and Bruna Somer-Farias (Michigan State University): Multiliteracies Language Teaching In World Language Classrooms
• Blaine Smith (Vanderbilt University): A Framework for Scaffolding FL Students’ Digital Multimodal Composition

Intercultural Perspectives in K-12 Classrooms –

• Jill Castek (University of Arizona): Worlds of Experience: Immersive International Virtual Field Experiences with Language Teachers
• Kathy Short (University of Arizona): Learning about Language and Culture in K-8 Classrooms

New L2 Pedagogies –

• Nicole Coleman (Wayne State University) and Janice McGregor (University of Arizona): Bringing Ungrading to Language Learning Contexts
• Chantelle Warner (University of Arizona): Language and Culture Programs as Sites of Well-Being

II. Teaching and Learning Communities:

• Language Teacher Symposia (LaTeS)
• Professional Learning Online Network Spaces (PLONS)
• Summer Institutes (the 2025 summer institute is an expansion of the hugely successful 2024 programming)

III. Knowledge Sharing and Building:

• Julieta Fernandez (University of Arizona) and Chantelle Warner (University of Arizona): An Introduction to Applied Linguistics for Language Educators (this Open Access edited volume is coming in Fall, 2025!)
• International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence
• Professional Learning Webinar Series
• Community College Outreach Events (details for the 2025 conference here)

For the most recently completed grant cycle, see the clusters and projects in the 2018-2022 grant cycle, with the resources they have created at the links below:

• STEM Integration (live webinars in June, 2021, focused on resources developed by two of 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)
    • Summer Institutes: originally planned as in-person professional development, most of these have been presented as webinars due to the pandemic (find recordings under “professional development” in the menu bar above). Details about the in-person institute held in summer 2022 are here.
    • Professional Learning Online Networks (PLONS)
• Knowledge-Sharing and Building
  • • Intercultural Competence Conference
    • L2 Digital Literacies Symposium

The 2014-2018 projects (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