Lecture Series

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

Spring 2009 Lecture Series

Friday, February 27 - Alice Gaby
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
When is West? Talking and Thinking about Time and Space
370 Dwinelle Hall. 3-5:00 p.m.
Lecture Sound Recording


Wednesday, March 4, - Jose del Valle
Professor, Hispanic Linguistics, CUNY
Everbody’s Usage: The Politics of Grammar in the Hispanofonia
370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Lecture Sound Recording


Thursday, March 19 - James Coleman
Professor of Language Learning and Teaching, The Open University, UK
New Perspectives on Study Abroad Research: Goals, Variables, and Methods
B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Lecture Sound Recording


Wednesday, April 8 - Stanton Wortham
Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Hillbilly Spanish and Tarzan English:
Ideologies of Mexican Immigrant Language
B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.


Friday, May 8 - BLC Fellows Forum

Instructional Development Research Projects
Kristin Dickinson,
Adam Mendelson,
Junghee Park
B- 4 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