Author: Orlando Garcia

Fall 2020 BLC FellowsInstructional Development Research Projects Teaching Song. Soliloquy and Other Poetic Turns in Levantine Colloquial ArabicNathalie Khankan, Lecturer, NESTBD Teaching Cultural Competency and Skills of Textual Analysis through Popular Music in the Beginner Russian LanguageKathryn DeWaele, GSR, SlavicTBD The Role of Texts in Language RevitalizationEdwin Ko, GSR, LinguisticsTBD A Variationist Approach to French…

Glenn Levine, Professor, German, UC Irvine On Butterflies, Onions, and Surfers: How Language Teaching Can Save the World Teaching a language always implies an underlying pedagogy. Regardless of whether that pedagogy is explicit or implicit, it is comprised of knowledge, beliefs and assumptions about what language is and how language learning happens. In this presentation,…

Roundtable discussion:What should be the knowledge base of foreign languageteachers in higher education? To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the L2 Journal, the BLC will hold a Roundtable on the relationship between research and practice in the teaching of foreign languages. With globalization, many of the traditional tenets of foreign language teaching and learning at…

Kris Knisely, Assistant Professor, French and Intercultural Competence, University of Arizona Un-Boxing Gender: Toward Trans-Affirming L2 Pedagogies Language education represents a site for identity (re)construction, mediated through language acquisition and use (Atkinson, 2011). Through acts such as speaking, reading, and writing, learners must linguistically position themselves and be positioned by others. In this way, language…

Un-Boxing Gender: Toward Trans-Affirming L2 Pedagogies Kris Knisely, Assistant Professor, French and Intercultural Competence, University of ArizonaSeptember 11, 3-5 pm Anniversary Panel for L2 Journal: What Should Be the Knowledge Base of Foreign Language Teachers in Higher Education? Margot Szarke – Lecturer, FrenchDominick Lawton – Graduate Student, SlavicIgnacio Navarrete – Professor, SpanishMinsook Kim – Lecturer,…

A Workshop on Remote Language Teaching Is this the new reality? This online workshop will help us prepare for the possibility of continued remote instruction in the fall semester. Please come and share what worked (and what didn’t) in your classes this spring. What would you do differently in the fall? How might things be different…

Universitas Linguarum The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition Linguarum enim inscitia disciplinas universas aut exstinxit, aut depravavit… For ignorance of languages either marred or abolished the world of learning…. —Erasmus, 1529, De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis. Opera I, 377 Berkeley’s celebration of languages in the Library could not come at a better moment. We…

Spring 2020 BLC FellowsInstructional Development Research Projects via Zoom (Meeting ID: 937-3656-5945) Literacy en français and à la française: Socializing Students to Academic Literacy Practices in a Foreign LanguageEmily Linares, GSR, FrenchDespite an emphasis on “multiliteracies” and “intercultural learning” in literacy research, reading and writing in a foreign language continue to be largely understood as…

Glenn Levine, Professor, German, UC Irvine On Butterflies, Onions, and Surfers: How Language Teaching Can Save the World Teaching a language always implies an underlying pedagogy. Regardless of whether that pedagogy is explicit or implicit, it is comprised of knowledge, beliefs and assumptions about what language is and how language learning happens. In this presentation, I…

Per recommendation from campus leadership, we are postponing our BLC Lecture scheduled for this Friday, and will reschedule in the Fall 2020. Julie Kerekes, Associate Professor, Language and Literacies Education, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto Crossing Institutional Borders: A Collaborative Study in Pragmatics Between University Students and a Settlement Organization Soft skills,…