Publications
Contemporary Topics in Applied Linguistics for Language Educators
This new free publication was conceived by editors Chantelle Warner and Julieta Fernández (both at the University of Arizona) as a response to the lack of direct engagement with current debates and conversations in textbooks used in methodology courses, and the...
Learning Hindi Online through Current Social Issues
Currently under development, this project has created FREE resources that offer authentic materials to examine contemporary social issues in India, touching upon linguistic provisions, cultural diversity and more. Our aim is to empower the learner with the language...
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,...
The MODES Framework: Scaffolding Digital Multimodal Composing in the World Language Classroom
The MODES Scaffolding Framework website is a free resource developed by Dr. Blaine Smith (Vanderbilt University) with the goal of helping teachers to integrate digital multimodal composing--visuals, sounds, text and movement--in the classroom. The site offers a guide...
Footprints: Geo-Literacies and Place-Based Language Learning
Footprints is an open educational resource (OER) designed to support educators in integrating local environments, community knowledge, and spatial awareness into language education. Co-created by Liudmila Klimanova (University of Arizona) and Lara Lomicka Anderson...
El-Mumtaaz, Contemporary Beginning Egyptian Arabic
"A research-based approach to learning beginner-level contemporary Egyptian Arabic that puts culture up front." As part of the Title VI grant that funds CERCLL, Mahmoud Azaz and Ayman Mohamed have authored El-Mumtaaz: Contemporary Beginning Egyptian Arabic (Georgetown...
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
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) for their classrooms, bringing...
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 &...
Learning about Language and Culture in K-8 Classrooms
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...