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Teaching Intertextuality and Recontextualization through Music
By
Maya Smith, PhD Candidate, Department of French
Published Jan 24, 2012
Russian Phonetics: Sound and Meaning in Russian Avant-Garde Poetry
By
Lucas Stratton, PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Published Oct 31, 2011
Language and culture in documentaries by Italian women filmmakers
By
Mara Mauri Jacobsen, Lecturer, Italian Studies
Published Oct 19, 2011
BLC News
BLC Travel Grant Report
I attended the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in Portland, Oregon, in January 2012. I presented my research about multilingualism. While → Read in full
Visiting Scholars at BLC, Spring 2012
The BLC is pleased to welcome four Visiting Scholars this spring. Julie Kerekes from the University of Toronto will be on the Berkeley campus until June. Her research → Read in full
Large Sound Files Got Your Students Down?
Many of our textbooks come with accompanying CD/DVDs with audio and video files. Often, those sound files consist of a long reading of a chapter’s vocabulary, word after → Read in full
BLC Travel Grant Report
Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Convention Scottsdale, Arizona October 6-8, 2011 I have been participating in the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual → Read in full
BLC Travel Grant Report
I attended three ten-day Chinese teaching workshops held by National Cheng Kung University in Tainan city, Taiwan, on June 27, June 28, July 10, and July 24. The → Read in full
L2 Journal Special Issue now available
The special issue of L2 Journal, “Teaching Language, Culture, and Text with Film” is now available here. Contents: “Teaching Japanese Pragmatic Competence Using Film → Read in full
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For a complete calendar of all language-related events at UC Berkeley, check out our Events Calendar page. Registered users can even submit events for inclusion in the calendar!
Lecture, February 17, 2012: Mark Kaiser, Rossella Carbotti
Language in Film and the Language of Film: Two Semiotic Systems Engaged by Mark Kaiser and Rossella Carbotti, University of California, Berkeley This presentation → Read in full
Lecture, March 2, 2012: Mairi McLaughlin
The Place of Translation in Higher Education by Mairi McLaughlin, Dept of French, University of California, Berkeley The Observer’s Robert McCrum declared 2011 a → Read in full
Lecture, April 6, 2012: H. Douglas Brown
Teaching as a Subversive Activity - Revisited by H. Douglas Brown, Emeritus Professor of English, San Francisco State University For virtually every language teacher, → Read in full
Past Events
Lecture, December 2, 2011: BLC Fellows (L. Allais, S. Tuomainen, M. Smith, R. Carbotti)
Fall 2011 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Third Place in the French Classroom: A Separate Space for a New Beginning? Letizia Allais, GSR, → Read in full
Lecture, November 9, 2011: Laura Welcher
The Rosetta Project: Building a 10,000 Year Archive of All Human Languages by Laura Welcher, Director of Operations and The Rosetta Project 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Wednesday, → Read in full
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L2 Journal, a fully refereed, interdisciplinary journal which aims to promote the research and the practice of language learning and teaching edited by founding BLC Director Claire Kramsch.