This conference is organized by the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), and co-sponsored by the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program, College of Humanities, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Office of Global Initiatives, Center for Latin American Studies (LAS), and Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of Arizona; and by the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at Pennsylvania State University; the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) at the University of Oregon; the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) at the University of Texas at Austin; the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; and the Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research (CULTR) at Georgia State University.