Results in BLC Posts
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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on July 13, 2022
Spring 2022 Fellow: Zhonghua Wang Abstract This project entails the incorporation of Digital Humanities (DH)-inflected pedagogy into the Italian history and literature curriculum. DH methods facilitate a laboratory-based learning environment that values collaboration, creativity, and transdisciplinarity, and serve as a meaningful analytical approach to rethink the Italian literary canon, and to challenge methodological nationalism and…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on July 5, 2022
Fall 2021 Fellow: Raksit Lau-Preechathammarach Language endangerment is an urgent issue in the present day, with over 40% of the world’s languages at risk of having no more speakers within the next century. Carrying out language revitalization requires a multipronged approach and collaboration between a diverse group of stakeholders. In this paper, we will focus…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on June 23, 2022
Spring 2022 Fellow: Sabrina Jaszi Despite the adoption of a “Multiliteracies” framework in many FL classrooms (Kern, 2000; Paesani, Allen, & Dupuy, 2016; Swaffer and Arens, 2005), a text-centered approach has been slow to catch on in Russian language pedagogy. The need for explicit grammar instruction provides an obstacle, but a holistic, text-focused approach still…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on May 21, 2022
Apply now: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03476/applyView this position online: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03476 POSITION OVERVIEWPosition title: Associate DirectorPercent time: 100%Anticipated start: negotiablePosition duration: Term appointment with a two-year reappointment cycle APPLICATION WINDOWOpen date: May 23rd, 2022Next review date: Tuesday, Jun 7, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.Final date: Thursday, Jun 23, 2022…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on May 20, 2022
It has been a busy year for the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) community as we returned to campus and were finally able to join together again in person. We welcomed new faces and said goodbye to dear friends and colleagues, and resumed events previously on hold due to COVID while expanding our programming in exciting…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 7, 2022
Exploring the Boundaries of Translation Consider untranslatable words: What are they? Be it a philosophical concept, a culture-specific practice, or a bizarre shade of color, such a word refuses to settle into an English equivalent just as one culture cannot be thoroughly understood by analogy with another. This contest, organized by the Berkeley Language Center…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 13, 2022
Spring 2022 BLC Fellows ForumInstructional Development Research Projects The Soviet 1960s: A Multiliteracies-Based Approach to Second-Year RussianSabrina Jaszi, GSR, Slavic Languages & LiteraturesThis presentation focuses on an intermediate Russian course taught through engaging and relatable youth-centric works of the period of cultural liberalization following Stalin’s rule. Employing an integrated approach to reading, writing, and communication, the…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 12, 2022
Words in Action A Multilingual Student Performance Come and celebrate an afternoon of linguistic diversity as UC Berkeley studentsperform scenes, songs, and poems. With the participation of the following languages:ARABIC, ARMENIAN, CHINESE, FRENCH, GERMAN, HINDI,HUNGARIAN, ITALIAN, JAPANESE, KOREAN, PERSIAN, PORTUGUESE,PUNJABI, RUSSIAN, SPANISH, SWAHILI, TAMIL/TELEGU, UKRAINIAN Friday, April 15, 2022 • 3-7PM Durham Studio Theater, Dwinelle…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 11, 2022
“Learners in a School System Declared to be Language-Aware:Experiences of Students in Multilingual Finnish Schools” ELISA REPO Visiting Scholar, Berkeley Language Center and Doctoral Candidate, Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku (Finland) Tuesday April 12, 2022 12:00pm – 1:00pm PTJoin Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 954 0335 6267 Passcode: FitTalk This study explores the promotion of language and…