Publications
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
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)...
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...
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...
Multimodal Online Persian Dictionary
Project Director: Narges Nematollahi (University of Arizona). The Multimodal Online Persian Picture Dictionary is a multimedia environment in which objects and activities illustrated in theme-based images are matched with corresponding Persian words. By clicking on...
Multiliteracies at the Museum: A Resource Book for Language Teachers
An open educational resource created by Chantelle Warner (University of Arizona) & Richmond Embeywa (now Emory University) published by CERCLL, published in summer 2022). The guide for teachers includes an introductory section on how museum-based pedagogies can help...