Professional Development Webinars
CERCLL offers free webinars with continuing education and/or digital badges available for educators who participate in the live events. To learn about our upcoming webinars and register, please see our event pages. Recordings and other related resources are made available after these events and can be found on the individual event pages. There is also a webinar playlist on our YouTube channel, where all the recordings can be found.
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Sustainability in Language Education: Research-Based Curricula and Practices Drawing on current research and classroom-based practice, this webinar series showcases approaches that connect language learning with ecological awareness, social responsibility, and global citizenship. Sessions explore ecolinguistics as a framework for promoting ecological wellbeing and sustainability, strategies for making sustainability topics accessible to beginner language learners, and inquiry-based pedagogies that foster creativity and build learner communities. Together, the webinars offer practical insights and adaptable models for educators interested in advancing sustainability through…
Integrating AI in Language Education: Research-Based Practices to Support the Modes of Communication Language educators are called on to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of GenAI in language learning. As GenAI tools become increasingly sophisticated and accessible, educators face both unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges in providing meaningful instruction. Through evidence-based insights, practical strategies, and collaborative dialogue, this webinar series will equip language educators to make informed decisions about leveraging AI tools thoughtfully while keeping themselves and their learners…
Transforming Language Teaching Materials: From Selection and Adaptation, to Creation, to Successful Implementation Language teaching and learning materials encompass a rich spectrum of resources—from traditional textbooks and teacher/student-generated content to digital applications, and authentic realia—serving as foundational elements in language programs and classrooms worldwide. These materials bridge the gap between theoretical pedagogical approaches and practical classroom implementation, while providing essential structure to the learning experience. The effectiveness of these resources, however, hinges critically on language educators’ ability to thoughtfully…
Current Directions in Postsecondary Language Program Administration This series was planned to coincide with the publication of a new book forthcoming in 2025, The Routledge Handbook of Language Program Development and Administration, the editors of which (one of whom is CERCLL Director Beatrice Dupuy) will present the first, introductory webinar. The series will delve into some of the 52 chapters in this volume, to focus on practical issues in language program development and administration. These webinars also tie into the Language…
Presented by Peter Ecke (University of Arizona). Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 2-3:30 PM Arizona/MST (UTC -7). To see when it begins where you are, click here. Join us for an enlightening webinar with our own Dr. Peter Ecke! Discover how his successful decade-long course–Becoming multilingual: Learning and maintaining two or more languages–encourages students to appraise the benefits and costs of becoming multilingual, and gain insights that will help them to make informed decisions about their own language learning and use…
Virtual Exchange in Language Education Often, opportunities to connect with peers abroad are limited to students who have the time and financial means to travel and stay for extended periods of time. Open Doors reports that less than 10% of U.S. undergraduates study abroad. As a low-cost or no-cost opportunity, virtual exchange has the potential to enable all students to connect and collaborate with peers from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds on projects that model the encounters they will have in…
Digital Multimodal Composition in Language Education The call to broaden our understanding of literacy is not new. Over the past 20 years, scholars have been calling for the need to extend the range of literacy practices by bringing new forms of representation and communication, especially those of the digital age, into the L2 classroom. This call reflects a view of communicative competence which today is understood as multimodal communicative competence. The multimodal turn in language education is an outcome of the…
In recent years, cutting edge tech tools such as neural machine translation (NMT), generative AI and extended reality (XR) have given rise to a mixture of excitement and concern as to their potential uses. In this webinar series, the opportunities and challenges these tools present will be explored and the pedagogies they require examined for the purpose of rebooting language teaching and learning. Click on the titles below to access the recordings, slides and resources for the webinars in…
During the Fall 2023 semester, CERCLL offered a series of professional development webinars for language educators with an emphasis on career-focused language development. In 2019, ACTFL’s Making Languages Our Business report revealed the high and growing demand for language skills in the workplace with 9 out of 10 employers surveyed citing a reliance on bilingual employees and 1 in 3 reporting a language skills gap. Curricular offerings of language programs are not always balanced in a way that prioritizes the…
CERCLL offered a series of professional development webinars for language educators over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year, in which presenters brought newer, multiliteracies approaches to address traditional topics in language teaching. Click on the titles below to access the recordings, slides and resources for the webinars in this series. You can also view all the recordings in our YouTube webinar playlist! Bruna Sommer-Farias(Michigan State University)Genre Pedagogies in the World Language Classroom This webinar discusses ways…
CERCLL offered a series of professional development webinars for language educators over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year, in which presenters brought newer, multiliteracies approaches to address traditional topics in language teaching. Click on the titles below to access the recordings, slides and resources for the webinars in this series. You can also view all the recordings in our YouTube webinar playlist! Kate Paesani(University of Minnesota)Using Language Forms to Communicate About Texts: A Multiliteracies Perspective This…
In Spring/Summer 2021, CERCLL hosted two two-part professional development webinar series for language and culture educators that focused on Multi-Modal Literacies and Intercultural Communication in the L2 Classroom. In addition, directors and collaborators working on four CERCLL projects presented webinars in which they train educators to use the materials that they have created over recent years. These events were recorded, and several have accompanying materials including further resources that can be used in the classroom, and references that may be…
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) is part of a network of sixteen Language Resource Centers across the United States. Each with a different focus, these centers are funded by grants from the US Department of Education that are intended to promote and improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages. CERCLL creates resources and professional development opportunities that center on incorporating cultural awareness and multiliteracies into language teaching in multiple languages. Details about the…
In Fall 2020, CERCLL hosted two three-part professional development webinar series for language and culture educators that focused on Social Justice and Literacy-based Lesson Planning. These events were recorded, and several have accompanying materials including further resources that can be used in the classroom, and references that may be useful for educators working on these topics. To access the presenter bios, recordings and these additional materials, click on the links below. Literacy-based Lesson Planning in the Language Classroom Re-Envisioning…
CERCLL hosted several professional development webinars over the last several months, some of which are paired with additional resources for language educators. These recordings are now accessible in a playlist on our YouTube channel. By clicking on the buttons following the descriptions below, you will find the individual recordings and their additional resources. Presented by Rebecca Aubrey (2019 ACTFL Teacher of the Year) Learning a language is no longer just about preparing for college, but about preparing students to live…