CARLA Presentation Series

CARLA sponsors a series of free online presentations during the academic year to share research in the field and showcase work on CARLA's initiatives.

All presentations are offered online unless otherwise noted. Times listed are in the U.S. Central Time Zone. Please note that the start times may vary.

Upcoming Events

This case study explores how multilingual teacher candidates in a k-12 ESL and WL licensure program position themselves as advocates for multilingualism generally, and heritage language development and maintenance in particular.  

This presentation will review important changes in texts and literacy over the past few decades, consider some of the challenges that AI presents to language teachers, and propose some ideas for working creatively with AI in ways that further learners' literacy as well as language abilities.

This study examines students' language use when learning through critical pedagogies to assess their potential for advancing linguistic proficiency.

The authors examine the curricular process, pedagogical co-creation, and elementary-aged children's responses to difficult conversations and emotions about deportation, racism, xenophobia, and violence through art expression.

This practical presentation will provide an overview of three secondary Spanish dual language immersion curricular units available for educators as a component of CARLA’s Secondary Dual Language Immersion Initiative.

This presentation shares results of a study that explored English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students’ lived experience of translanguaging during formal assessments.