Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Orlando Garcia on August 15, 2022
Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics Conceptualizations of competence, which permeate applied linguistics, systematically fail to account for the role of racialization in language learning. Building on collaborative work with Nelson Flores to conceptualize the framework of raciolinguistic ideologies as a project of undoing appropriateness, this presentation seeks to…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on August 14, 2022
The Berkeley Language CenterCordially Invites You to the Upcoming Meeting of ItsFound in Translation (FIT) Working Group “Machine Translation vs. Human Translation: The challenge of translating sports metaphors” MARÍA LABARTA POSTIGOProfessor, Faculty of Philology, Translation and CommunicationUniversity of Valencia, Spain Monday September 26, 2022, 12-1pm PST Join Zoom Meeting HereMeeting ID: 910 9914 4690Passcode: 765880…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on August 13, 2022
Film in the Language / Culture Curriculum Introduction by Mark Kaiser Amir Effat (Spanish), Cristina Farronato (Italian), Nataliia Goshylyk (Ukrainian), Nora Melnikova (Hindi), Giuliana Perco (Italian), Karen Llagas (Filipino), Minsook Kim (Korean) Led by Mark Kaiser, BLC Associate Director Emeritus, this past summer the seven speakers listed designed a lesson plan for classroom use based…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on August 10, 2022
Fall 2021 Fellow: Nora Melnikova How can a literature reading class be taught and where does it find its place in the divide between language and literature courses? Does this divide still make sense at a time when ‘language teaching’ has been moving away from the narrowly understood communicative approach aimed solely at teaching transactional…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on August 4, 2022
Spring 2022 Fellow: Gabriella Licata The full paper will be submitted for publication.
Posted by Orlando Garcia on August 1, 2022
BLC Roundtable: Summer 2022 FellowsFilm in the Language / Culture Curriculum Introduction by Mark KaiserPresenters: Cristina Farronato & Giuliana Perco (Italian), Karen Llagas (Filipino), Minsook Kim (Korean), Amir Effat (Spanish), Nataliia Goshylyk (Ukrainian), Nora Melnikova (Hindi)Friday, September 23, 3-5pm, B-4 Dwinelle & Zoom Undoing Competence:Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics Jonathan…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on July 30, 2022
BLC Open House Please join us in celebrating Richard Kern’s tenure as BLC faculty director and welcoming our new Associate Director, Emily Hellmich. Thursday, September 15, 2022 3:30 – 5 pm, Ishi Court Please RSVP here by 9/8
Posted by Orlando Garcia on July 29, 2022
Travel Report: Margot Szarke, Lecturer in French At the recent 2022 MLA convention (Washington, D.C.), I presented my research onearly vaccine literature at a panel called “Transmission in Nineteenth-Century FrenchStudies.” Although the presentations focused on separate texts, time frames, andsocial/medical issues, a common thread throughout was an attention to the ways inwhich literary form shapes…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on July 29, 2022
Fall 2021 Fellow: Karen Llagas When asked about goals for enrolling in an Intermediate Filipino class, student responses usually cluster around communication (“to be able to talk with my grandparents…”), identity formation (“to learn about my origins and culture”) and professional and scholarly growth (“to be able to use Filipino as I pursue medicine/law/social work/research..”).…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on July 29, 2022
Fall 2021 Fellow: Karina Palau What happens when we re-envision a bilingual Spanish-English, Reading & Composition (R&C) course as an opportunity to recognize students’ unbordered language identities and value their dynamic languaging practices? Informed by emerging research on translanguaging, this forthcoming article reports on pedagogical strategies tried in a Fall 2022 pilot course at UC…