Lecture Series

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

Fall 2009 Lecture Series

Friday, Sept 18
Tricky Points – Creative Solutions
Three foreign language lecturers discuss linguistic/cultural points difficult to teach in their respective languages, and present their solutions for making them teachable.
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.


Friday, October 23, - David Crystal
Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor
From Texting to Tweeting: The Brave New World of Internet Linguistics
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.


Friday, November 13 - Crispin Thurlow
Associate Professor, Communication, University of Washington
Language, Tourism, and Banal Globalization
B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.


Friday, December 4 - BLC Fellows Forum
Instructional Development Research Projects

Galen Sibanda
Jessica Rasheeda Williams
Heather McMichael
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