Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Victoria Williams on February 1, 2013
Connecting Teachers and Students to World Languages March 16, April 20, and May 4, 2013 Saturdays, 8:30 - 3:30 Participants will: * develop and instructional unit incorporating the eight elements of PBL and California World Language Standards, with a focus on target language proficiency development in all three modes of communication, oral and written; *…
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 31, 2013
Thanks to the BLC and its generous travel grant, I was able to attend the 2012 Chinese Language Teachers Association Conference held in Philadelphia. During the three-day conference, hundreds of Chinese language teachers shared their research results and different views of how to teach Chinese effectively. I was honored to have the opportunity to share…
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 31, 2013
Once again this year, the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual conference proved to be as stimulating as ever. I have been presenting papers at the RMMLA for over a decade now and every year, without exception, the RMMLA delivers an excellent variety of interdisciplinary literature and pedagogy sessions, high quality presentations, and a genuine…
Posted by Victoria Williams on October 24, 2012
In August 2012, I attended The Japan Association for Language Education & Technology (J-LET) annual conference in Kobe. I am grateful to the BLC for the generous financial travel support. At the conference I co-presented with Mark Kaiser a paper on “Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence Through Film Clips.” He introduced the BLC’s ongoing film clips…
Posted by Victoria Williams on October 4, 2012
Culture has been commonly understood as something we “have”, acquired through membership in a community rather than something socio-ideologically situated that we “do” bodily in and through language. Through videotaped interviews with hearing mothers of deaf children discussing their language experiences in the visual world of their deaf child, I attempt to shape an emergent…
Posted by Victoria Williams on September 12, 2012
Silent cinema represents a useful tool for foreign language instruction precisely because of its lack of verbalized dialogue. Cinematic silence can be used to demonstrate the connections between visual and verbal meaning, provide unique material for a variety of writing projects and in-class exercises, and facilitate discussion about the function of language in genre and…
Posted by Victoria Williams on August 30, 2012
Immigrant homes often display artifacts of cultural, historic, and ethnic importance. I have looked into the meaningful objects that Bay Area Finns of different generations and age groups hold dear to their hearts. The owners find nostalgic connections with these objects as they keep negotiating and recreating their Finnishness. This talk discusses the many fragilities…
Posted by Victoria Williams on August 16, 2012
How can the language classroom account for the ecologies of language that generate bilingual and multilingual practices, attitudes, and cultural products? Using texts and media that incorporate French and Arabic, this project develops lesson plans to engage students in the critical appraisal of the values, agencies, and registers that shape language use in francophone cultures. …
Posted by Victoria Williams on August 15, 2012
Teachers of World Languages and of English Language Learners are invited to participate in the professional learning programs, Foundations of Effective Language Teaching I and Foundations of Effective Language Teaching II. Applications are still being accepted by fax or by mail! The program will be offered on five Saturdays: September 29, October 20, December 1,…
Posted by Victoria Williams on August 2, 2012
See the Travel Grant Program tab here at the BLC website for information and an application.