Author: Orlando Garcia

Fall 2017 Faculty Reception Please join us on Tuesday, September 12, anytime from 4:00 until 5:30, in the Claire Kramsch Lounge (34 Dwinelle Hall) for light refreshments and good conversation with your fellow language lecturers, visiting scholars, BLC Fellows, and BLC staff.

Fall 2017 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects "Balkan Bridges": Techniques to Foreground Culture in a Study Abroad Program and the South Slavic Language/Literature Classroom Antje Postema, Lecturer, Slavic TBA Teaching French listening comprehension and cultural awareness through regional variation Elise Ritchey, GSR, French TBA The Multilingual Imagination: Voices and Subject Positions of Adult Multilingual…

Elinor Ochs, UCLA TBA TBA Friday, November 17, 2017 3 - 5 pm B-4 Dwinelle Hall

Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona Foreign Language Literacy: Affect, Aesthetics, & Ethics Over the past couple of decades “literacy” has emerged as a key term in L2 teaching and learning. This has been driven by a renewed and re-theorized interest in how text-based practices mediate and are mediated by human activity across diverse media, linguistic,…

Susanne Even, Indiana University Learning Spaces: An Introduction to Performative Pedagogy All of us perform multiple roles in our normal daily lives without necessarily being aware of it. But when it comes to learning another language, 'normality' is suspended: learners enter a different world they cannot navigate as easily due to less developed lexical, structural…

Spring 2017 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Adding A Robust Cultural Component in Elementary Tibetan Jann Ronis, Lecturer, East Asian Languages & Cultures Two types of students tend to enroll in the Elementary Tibetan course: those with a strong interest in Tibetan culture and those with a strong interest in Tibetan linguistics. During this…

Juliane House, Hellenic American University Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures In this lecture I first suggest ways of building bridged between linguistic and cultural approaches to translation; second I present my own theory of translation as re-contextualization and a Third Space phenomenon followed by a number of illustrations and examples as well as…

Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna Displacement and the Lived Experience of Language: Testimonies from Children with Migration Backgrounds in an Austrian School This presentation foregrounds the concept of Spracherleben, the lived experience of language, in contribution to the ongoing debate about the conceptualization of linguistic repertoire in the context of mobility and migration. Relocating the…

David Gramling, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona On Dwelling in the Linguacene: From Hypomnesic Monolingualism to Reactionary Multilingualism In my book The Invention of Monolingualism (2016), I argued against the predominant, charismatic notion that monolingualism is the vice of those who refuse to learn other languages, or otherwise refuse to become open to cultural difference…

Fall 2016 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects FrancoForniens: Bringing Oral History into the French-language Classroom Aubrey Gabel, GSR, French In this presentation, I will show how I borrowed techniques from oral history to build an archive of interviews with “FrancoForniens,” or French speakers living in the Bay Area. Oral history has long been employed…