Author: Orlando Garcia

BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Building Bridges Across Cultures: Intercultural Service Learning Amelia Barili, Lecturer, Spanish & Portuguese In our troubled global world and our diverse communities, our students need to develop positive attitudes, skills, values, knowledge and understanding towards people with different world views and to collaborate in common projects with them to…

Claire Kramsch, Professor, GSE & Professor Emerita, German Language as Symbolic Power: What's in it for foreign language teachers? As I am transforming my Language & Power syllabus into a book for Cambridge UP series “Key Topics in Applied Linguistics”, I have been overwhelmed by the extent to which language these days is used to exert…

Kate Paesani, Director, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition The Multiliteracies Framework and Interpretive Communication: Curricular and Instructional Perspectives Over the past two decades, postsecondary foreign language programs have experienced a shift away from an emphasis on oral communication toward more text-based curricula and the development of students’ multiple literacies. This “literacy turn” prioritizes…

Robert Train, Professor, Spanish, Sonoma State University Experiencing Language, Language Education and Social Justice in Times of Violence and Resistance Attacking education has long been a staple food in the conservative political regimen of the "culture wars" in the US. However, the assault on higher education takes an increasingly troubling and openly violent texture in…

Experiencing Language, Language Education and Social Justice in Times of Violence and Resistance Robert Train, Professor, Spanish, Sonoma State University Tuesday, February 5, 3-5pm The Multiliteracies Framework and Interpretive Communication: Curricular and instructional perspectives Kate Paesani, Director, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition Friday, March 1, 3-5pm Language as Symbolic Power: What's in it…

Fall 2018 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects From a Face-to-Face to Hybrid Intermediate Korean Course Minsook Kim, Lecturer, East Asian Languages & Cultures The Korean program has had a high attrition rate from beginning (K1A) to intermediate levels (K10B) (AY 2017: 77%). In searching for a solution to this trend, my colleague, Dr. Junghee Park and…

Amanda Godley, Professor, English Education & Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Pittsburgh Critical Language Pedagogy: Teaching about Dialect Variation, Identity and Power Language and literacy education scholars have long called for the teaching of language to be more critical, raising students’ awareness of how language choices and varieties convey power, identity and ideologies. In…

Mary Quinn, Associate Professor, Spanish, University of New Mexico Teaching a Spanish Literature Course Online: A skeptic's experience According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, one in every four undergraduate students takes at least one class online and studies show that access to online learning can boost graduation rates. But certain subjects, like language learning, seem…

Mark Kaiser, Associate Director, Berkeley Language Center Film in the Language Classroom: A multiliteracies approach, and beyond In this presentation I will examine the place of film in the language classroom from three perspectives, film studies, language, and software design, in order to explore the many ways that film can serve as source material for…

Film in the Language Classroom: A multiliteracies approach, and beyond Mark Kaiser, Associate Director, Berkeley Language Center Friday, September 14, 3-5pm Teaching a Spanish Literature Course Online: A skeptic's experience Mary Quinn, Associate Professor, Spanish, University of New Mexico Friday, October 12, 3-5pm Critical Language Pedagogy: Teaching about dialect variation, identity and power Amanda Godley,…