Kamchatka, Russia: Strengthening Indigenous Youth Learning through the Use of Cultural Heritage and Language Learning Technologies Kamchatka youth lack interest and involvement in cultural heritage, language and history, likely due to the fact that few living native...
Project Director: Scott Brill (U Arizona) [In collaboration with the Critical Languages Program and the National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs] Description: This project produced a training video for use with the MaxAuthor language software and...
Project Director: Garry Forger (U Arizona) [In collaboration with the Learning Technologies Center] Description: The Online Language Environments (OLE) Board is a web based threaded discussion instructional tool that utilizes voice, video and text to replicate the...
Bringing Global Cultures and World Languages into K-8 Classrooms Project Director: Dr. Kathy Short (U Arizona). [In collaboration with Worlds of Words, U Arizona] Description: The quickening pace of globalization has led to a context in which opportunities to succeed...
Project Director: Dr. Beatrice Dupuy (U. Arizona) [In collaboration with CMES and Department of Russian and Slavic Studies] Description: This project will provide teachers of intermediate-level FL students with a systematic way of integrating Global Simulation (GS)...
Topic-based Modules for Preparing the Future FL Professoriate to Teach with a Multiliteracies Approach across the Undergraduate FL Curriculum Projects Directors: Drs. Heather Allen (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Beatrice Dupuy (U Arizona) [In...
Project Director: Dr. Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona) Description: The political and educational climate of the world in the year 2010 speaks most clearly to the extreme need to develop instructional materials in Persian (aka Farsi), the official language of...
Project Director: Dr. Timothy Vance (U Arizona) Description: The goal of this project is to introduce students to the variety of writing systems that have been and are used around the world. This project will result in a carefully designed survey of the types of...
Learning to Read and Reading to Learn in East Asian Languages Project Directors: David Yaden and Yetta Goodman (U Arizona) Description: A summer institute in 2009, bringing together professionals in literacy development and linguistics with K-16 teachers, was...
Kamchatka, Russia: Strengthening Indigenous Youth Learning through the Use of Cultural Heritage and Language Learning Technologies. A webinar presented by Dr. Benedict Columbi about a project for which he received a CERCLL Faculty Research Grant in 2016. ABSTRACT:...
Repatriation and Tribesourcing of Yaqui Easter Films from 1972 Jennifer L. Jenkins was awarded a CERCLL Faculty Research grant in 2016 for a collaborative, inclusive language and cultural preservation initiative: repurposing two films from 1972 about the Yaqui...
Three projects were awarded CERCLL Faculty Research Grant funding in 2016. Click on the titles to read abstracts and view the webinars: Kamchatka, Russia: Strengthening Indigenous Youth Learning through the Use of Cultural Heritage and Language Learning...
For a PDF version of the summer brochure, click here. Monday June 2, 2014 Engaging K-12 Students in Global Inquiry through Fiction and Nonfiction Literature (6 hours, 9am – 4pm) Presenters include: Kathy G. Short, Richard Clift, Ke Huang, Mi-Kyoung...
Author: Justin Parry On November 10–11, CERCLL was sponsoring The Tucson Symposium on Indigenous Knowledge and Digital Literacies. This event was funded by the National Science Foundation’s “Cyberlearning: Transforming Education” program, and involved a partnership...
Writing Systems of the World – Timothy Vance Description: Writing Systems of the World introduces students to the variety of writing systems that have been and are used around the world by providing a carefully designed survey of the types of diverse writing...
Modern Persian: Written and Spoken – Intermediate Texts, Volumes I and II – Kamran Talatoff Description: Although Persian is one of the world’s oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more...
Author: Sasha Kuchuk CERCLL’s project “Bringing Global Cultures and World Languages into K-8 Classrooms“, directed by Dr. Kathy Short and developed in collaboration with Worlds of Words – the International Collection of Children’s and Adolescent Literature at the...
Author: Sasha Kuchuk In February, CERCLL has co-sponsored the Where Are Your Keys?workshop presented by the American Indian Language Development Insitute (AILDI) at the University of Arizona. During this workshop, Evan Gardner, the original developer of Where Are Your...
Ken McAllister and Judd Ruggill Description: Fluency in Play was written to provide K-16 teachers with an introduction to designing and building computer games for the foreign language classroom. At the heart of the book is the fact that computer games make excellent...
