The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy is a Title VI Language Resource Center that supports research related to language teaching and learning and provides educators with quality resources for teaching as well as professional development for the meaningful integration of culture, literacy, and world language study.
CERCLL serves as a unique local, regional, and national resource for scholars, academic professionals, teachers, and others interested in improving our nation’s capacity to deliver high-quality, pedagogically-sound, and cost-effective instruction in foreign languages. Many of CERCLL’s projects focus on the less commonly taught languages. CERCLL is located at The University of Arizona, and brings together faculty members and other UA academic professionals from across three colleges – the College of Humanities (COH), the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS), the College of Education (COE). We also collaborate with UA’s other Title VI centers, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), and with our fellow National Language Resource Centers in order to provide a solid foundation for language and culture learning in Arizona, across the US, and beyond.
In Fall 2018, CERCLL began its fourth funding cycle as one of 16 Language Resource Centers in the US, the mandate of which is to create resources and opportunities in languages that are foreign to the US. Through support from the US Department of Education and the University of Arizona, CERCLL has an established history of developing and disseminating innovative pedagogies, creating cutting edge educational materials, conducting and supporting new research on the teaching and learning of foreign languages, and providing professional development opportunities for K-16 language educators.