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After nearly a year of facilitating online professional development for educators across the U.S., Canada, and in international schools, I have learned that figuring out online teaching tools is akin to the language learning experience itself. With enough practice, you gain confidence, proficiency, and get to interact with people you otherwise might not meet at home.

Fortunately for educators of linguistically and culturally diverse students, students can practice and apply all four language domains—reading, writing, listening, and speaking–using online technology.

In addition to students’ own literacy practices, these storytelling activities can also be key teaching opportunities for EL students because they use multimedia, therefore providing extra scaffolding through images, audio, and video.

Starting January 2021, Dr. Ernest Morrell joins the Center for Applied Linguistics’s Board of Trustees for a 3-year term. A well-respected leader in the field of English education, the African Diaspora, and … Read more

Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day As we reflect on this national holiday, I want to reaffirm a core believe that we hold at the Center for Applied Linguistics: … Read more

The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) welcomes the nomination of Dr. Miguel Cardona to lead the Department of Education in the new Biden-Harris administration. “Dr. Cardona is an excellent choice … Read more

CAL is excited to announce new funding from a U.S. Department of Education Title VI International Research and Studies (IRS)grant to create a flexible computer-based training program for CAL’s world language assessment tools for … Read more

Starting March 30, the new assessment for Kindergarten English language learners called “WIDA Screener for Kindergarten” will be available for members of the WIDA Consortium

CAL submitted BEST Literacy 2.0, its adult English test of Reading and Writing, for approval by the Department of Education Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE). BEST Literacy 2.0 … Read more

There is an ideological war of words waging in America. The Power of Narrative: Climate Skepticism and the Deconstruction of Science, released October 1, 2020 by coauthors are Raul P. Lejano and CAL Board of Trustee, Shondel J. Nero, pulls from science and technology studies, narrative and discourse theory, and public policy to examine the strength of climate skepticism as a story, offering a thoughtful analysis and comparison of anti-climate science narratives over time and across geographic boundaries.

Today, the Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) and the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) announced a multi-year digital partnership to benefit language teachers across the United States through newly available online courses taught live by Spanish professors in Spain.