Lectures Series
Selected papers based on BLC Lectures are available at the Journal Language Teaching at the Cambridge Journals website.

Spring 2008 Lecture Series

 

Friday, January 25 - Rick Kern
Professor of French and Director of Berkeley Language Center, University of California, Berkeley
Pedagogical Workshop on Literacy-based Language Teaching
B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Abstract
Lecture Sound Recording


Friday, February 8 - Jay Lemke
Professor in the School of Education, Department of Educational Studies, University of Michigan
Meaning and Feeling: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Affect
B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Abstract
Lecture Sound Recording
PowerPoint (TM) Presentation


Friday, March 14 - Deborah Anderson
University of California, Berkeley Linguistics Department
The Script Encoding Initiative and Language Teaching and Scholarship for Minority and Historic Languages on the Web
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.


Friday, - April 18 Patricia Baquedano-Lopez
Professor Language and Literacy, Society and Culture University of California, Berkeley
The Question of Competence in Language Socialization Research:  An Analysis of Rehearsals in Children's Religious Ritual Practice
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Lecture Sound Recording


Friday, May 9 - BLC Fellows Forum
Instructional Development Research Projects

Amelia Barili
Lecturer. Spanish and Portuguese
Learning to Learn:  Neurobiology and Cognitive Science as a Basis of Autonomous Learning.  Principles and Applications
Abstract

Julia McAnallen
GSR, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Reconciling with the Unavoidable: Assessing the Impact of Advertising on the Russian Language
Abstract

Jennifer Gipson
GSR, French
Innovating Tradition:  Folklore, Literature, and Translingual and Transcultural Competence
Abstract

370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.

A reception follows each lecture.

The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored by the College of Letters and Science and by Berkeley's eight National Resource Centers under a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.


Past Lecture Series