| Body | by Julie Sykes, CASLS Director
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy (CERCLL) at the University of Arizona offers numerous resources for the language classroom around the teaching and learning of literacy. CERCLL’s feature projects for the 2014-2018 grant cycle are arranged in three thematic areas.
1 – Innovative Pedagogies and Materials
- American Study Abroad Students in China: Archiving Interactions between the American and Chinese Youth: A project to create an archive of recorded and transcribed interactions between American college students and their Chinese peers in the study abroad context.
- Film Clips for Foreign Language Culture and Literacy: A project focusing on media literacy through the integration of film in the classroom.
- Literacy in the Everyday: The curriculum development project will focus on the creation of literacy-based materials for German, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, and Persian.
- Games for Literacies: A look at the way games can be utilized to build multiple literacies.
2 – Professional Development and Community Connections
- K-16 Professional Development: A series of professional development projects for language teachers.
- Reading Globally: Connecting K-8 Classrooms to the World: This project is designed to “bring International Consultants and Language and Culture Kits into K-8 schools.”
- Globalizing the Common Core State Standards: An intentioned effort to globalize and expand common core standards to meet the need for cultural and global literacy.
3 – Knowledge Generation and Sharing
- Intercultural Sojourns: Assessing Outcomes and Impact: This project will explore the outcomes of study abroad experience and, in doing so, expand on currently existing research.
- Intercultural Competence Conference: A world-renowned conference that brings together experts in the area of intercultural competence.
- Digital Literacies in L2 Language Education, a Hybrid Symposium for Research and Practice: A hybrid symposium to examine the role of digital literacies in the language classroom.
Each of the ten projects addresses an area of culture, language, and literacy training and is designed to facilitate integration of materials in the language classroom. The majority are free resources and can be accessed through the center’s website at http://cercll.arizona.edu.
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