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Posted by Victoria Williams on July 30, 2021
Rediscovering the Joy of Learning, Essential Practices for World Language Instruction World Languages Series & Spanish Heritage Learners Series Workshops will take place over Zoom from 9:00am to 12:00pm (PT) on these Saturday dates: August 28, September 25, October 23, 2021; January 29, March 12, 2022. See flyer for cost, CEU's, registration.
Posted by Victoria Williams on July 27, 2021
Thanks to the generous support of a Berkeley Language Center (BLC) Travel Grant for Foreign Language Lecturers, during Spring 2021 (April 5–May 27) I was able to participate in the eight-week Online Kurdish Studies Certificate Program offered by the Zahra Institute, a Chicago-based research center and graduate school focusing on teaching and scholarship related to…
Posted by Victoria Williams on July 24, 2021
Posted by Victoria Williams on July 13, 2021
Our esteemed colleague, Marilyn Seid-Rabinow, former Assistant Director for Language Proficiency at the GSI Teaching & Resource Center passed away on June 21, 2021. More than 20 years ago, Marilyn created the Language Proficiency Program in the Graduate Division in order to support international GSIs in the development of oral English proficiency for teaching at…
Posted by Victoria Williams on July 1, 2021
For the first time since its inaugural conference in 1978, the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) held its annual meeting virtually from March 20th to the 23rd. Scholars from around the globe attended the four-day conference, but this time from their own homes. While some events took place synchronously, the majority were asynchronous. Approximately…
Posted by Victoria Williams on July 1, 2021
Abstract It is not enough for education to be seen as preparation for future life in society when learners are already members of their society. Based on several years of research with the BLC, I developed a methodology that integrates Intercultural Service Learning as an effective way for our students to increase their linguistic and…
Posted by Victoria Williams on July 1, 2021
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Dear Colleagues,In October we announced a new implementation phase of the Chancellor’s Strategic Plan focused on Discovery in the undergraduate experience: The Berkeley Discovery Initiative. This campus-wide effort will transform undergraduate education and support students on a journey of engaged creativity and self-actualization. Thanks to a generous…
Posted by Victoria Williams on June 16, 2020
Hiring signs at Pappy's Grill & Sports Bar in Berkeley, CA. Photo: Bronwyn Harris As a BLC Fellow during the Spring of 2020, I worked on the development of a new, upper-division course regarding the presence of Spanish in urban signage. In this report, I will share the advances made in the process of designing…
Posted by Victoria Williams on June 16, 2020
Research on academic socialization has predominately focused on the L2 educational experiences of international students. While FL research has increasingly emphasized “multiliteracies” and “intercultural learning,” literacy in an FL continues to be understood as the use of new words and grammar combined with familiar reading and writing practices. This paper highlights the potential to socialize…
Posted by Victoria Williams on December 5, 2019
New York, NY– 4 December 2019 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its thirty-fifth Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize to Claire Kramsch, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Lihua Zhang, of the University of California, Berkeley, for their book The Multilingual Instructor: What Foreign Language Teachers Say about Their…