BLC News

Lecture, February 28, 2014: Claire Kramsch & Lihua Zhang

By Orlando Garcia, Mar 01, 2014

The Legitimacy Gap: Multilingual native language teachers in monolingual foreign language departments Foreign-born language instructors who teach their native language  →  Read in full

Chika Shibahara Appointed Coordinator of Academic Outreach

By Rick Kern , Feb 09, 2014

The Berkeley Language Center is pleased to announce that in fall 2014, Chika Shibahara of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures will begin a three-year  →  Read in full

East Bay World Language Project News

By Victoria K. Williams, Jan 23, 2014

EBWLP Co-Director, Don Doehla, has written four pieces for The George Lucas Educational Foundation online publication and site, Edutopia. 4 Tools to Help Structure a  →  Read in full

Call for Papers: L2 Journal Special Issue on Neoliberalism in Language Education

By Victoria K. Williams, Jan 20, 2014

Click here for the Call for Papers for the special issue of L2 Journal, Critical Perspectives on Neoliberalism in Language Education.

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Ellen Langer , Jan 20, 2014

I recently attended the 2014 Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, held in Chicago, Illinois. I presented a brief  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Wu Xianghua , Jan 20, 2014

I gave a lecture presentation on a project I co-authored with Kazuya Saito at the 166th Acoustical Society of America (ASA) on December 4, 2013. I have been presenting  →  Read in full

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Upcoming Events

Lecture, March 14, 2014: Elana Shohamy

By Orlando Garcia, Mar 15, 2014

Linguistic Landscape: A tool for documenting, analyzing and contesting societies and their complexities Elana Shohamy, Professor, Tel Aviv University Linguistic  →  Read in full

Lecture, April 18, 2014: Katharina Brizic

By Orlando Garcia, Apr 19, 2014

Multilingual Inequality: What narratives reveal about social segmentation and academic success in two European crosswords of migration Katharina Brizic, Postdoc,  →  Read in full

Lecture, May 2, 2014: BLC Fellows (Y. Baker, N. Wallace, E. Born, K. Vinall)

By Orlando Garcia, May 03, 2014

Spring 2014 BLC Fellows’ Instructional Development Research Projects Developing an Online Placement Test for the UCB Japanese Program Yasuko Baker, Lecturer, East Asian  →  Read in full

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Past Events

Lecture, February 28, 2014: Claire Kramsch & Lihua Zhang

By Orlando Garcia, Mar 01, 2014

The Legitimacy Gap: Multilingual native language teachers in monolingual foreign language departments Foreign-born language instructors who teach their native language  →  Read in full

Special Event, February 14: Alessia Blad

By Victoria K. Williams, Feb 15, 2014

Blended learning: a new (and better) approach to beginning Italian Alessia Blad, University of Notre Dame The study of foreign languages faces numerous opportunities  →  Read in full

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