BLC Lecture Series, Fall 2021
BLC Summer Fellows Forum: Film in the Language Curriculum Nikolaus Euba – GermanVesna Rodic – FrenchChika Shibahara – JapaneseDonna Southard – SpanishJason Vivrette – TurkishLihua…
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BLC Events
Upcoming
BLC Open House, September 29, 2021
Open House& Mark’s Retirement Party Please join us in bidding Mark Kaiser farewell and welcoming our new BLC Executive Director Kimberly Vinall. Wednesday, September 29…
BLC Summer Fellows Forum, September 24, 2021
Film in the Language Curriculum The six speakers on this panel participated in a month-long summer project in which they each designed three lesson plans…
Workshop on Lumiere: Using Film to Teach, September 30, 2021
Pre-workshop Forum: “BLC Summer Fellows Forum: Film in the Language Curriculum” Friday, September 24; 3-5pm (Zoom Session) WORKSHOP: Lumière: Using Film to Teach Language, Culture,…
Archive
Lectures by BLC Fellows (Bonicatto, Beitler, De Luca) April 30, 2021
Panel on Reflections on Teaching the Conflicts in Foreign Language Classes, April 9, 2021
Lecture by Rodney Jones, March 12, 2021
Lecture by David Laurence, February 11, 2021
BLC Papers
« Si la personne peut me comprendre, pourquoi c’est un débat ? » : Teaching sociolinguistic variation through French phonetics
Using the Language Around Us: Teaching Spanish Linguistics with Urban Signage
Literacy en français and à la française: Socializing Students to Academic Literacy Practices in a Foreign Language
Travel Reports
Online Kurdish Studies Certificate Program, Zahra Institute
American Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Virtual Conference
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News
Fulbright Scholar Nataliia Goshylyk
Nataliia Goshylyk, Associate Professor of English at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ukraine) and Director of the Centre for Communication Research NGO, will be a… Welcome to our new Executive Director!
A warm welcome to Dr. Kimberly Vinall, who has just been appointed as the BLC’s new Executive Director after a wide-ranging search this summer. Kimberly… Occitan Studies Working Group
In Memoriam
Our esteemed colleague, Marilyn Seid-Rabinow, former Assistant Director for Language Proficiency at the GSI Teaching & Resource Center passed away on June 21, 2021. More…
Teaching Intercultural Citizenship through Intercultural Service Learning in World Language Education
Abstract It is not enough for education to be seen as preparation for future life in society when learners are already members of their society.… L2 Journal
The L2 Journal is a fully refereed, interdisciplinary journal which aims to promote the research and the practice of language learning and teaching.
Berkeley World Language Project
BWLP Professional Learning Series, 2021 – 2022
Rediscovering the Joy of Learning, Essential Practices for World Language Instruction World Languages Series & Spanish Heritage Learners Series Workshops will take place over Zoom… Explore the 2019 California World Languages Standards
World Language, Heritage Language, and Dual Immersion Teachers! Are you curious about the 2019 California World Languages Standards? This FREE workshop is for you!…
BWLP Professional Learning Series, 2019 – 2020
World Language, English Language, and Heritage Language Teachers: The Berkeley World Language Project, sponsored by the Berkeley Language Center at UC Berkeley, invites ALL language…
BWLP Professional Learning Series, 2018 – 2019
World Language Teachers: The Berkeley World Language Project, sponsored by the Berkeley Language Center at UC Berkeley, invites ALL language teachers at ALL levels to…