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Posted by Orlando Garcia on December 14, 2022
During the regular academic year, elementary, intermediate and advanced courses are offered in the fall and spring semesters. During the summer, intensive beginning Swahili may be offered. A summary of this is as follows:
Posted by Emily Hellmich on November 15, 2022
Cal students choose to study languages and cultures for many different reasons–curiosity, getting a job, family. On October 24, the BLC hosted a panel of outstanding undergraduates who shared exactly why they have chosen to study language/culture at Berkeley. The students are studying a range of languages: Spanish (Damaris Velazquez Lopez), French (Kayne Belul), Kiswahili…
Posted by Emily Hellmich on November 10, 2022
Last month, we asked for your direct input on the new directions of the BLC in the form of a survey. We are sincerely grateful to the close-to-50 people who generously gave of their time to share with us their ideas. Thank you! We are still in the process of analyzing all the results, but, in…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on October 24, 2022
Gabriella Licata has just received the 2023 student abstract award from the Linguistics Society ofAmerica for her abstract titled "A semiotic analysis of right-wing surveillance of CongresswomanAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez's communicative repertoire." Click here for more information!
Posted by Orlando Garcia on September 27, 2022
This past summer I stepped down as Director of the BLC because of increased administrative duties elsewhere on campus, and so this is an opportune moment to reflect a bit on the importance of BLC and the people who make it work. The BLC has been my intellectual home since its founding by Claire Kramsch…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on September 15, 2022
We gathered together on September 15 to celebrate Rick Kern’s tenure as faculty director of theBLC and to welcome Emily Hellmich, our new associate director. Amongst the chocolate andcarrot cakes and some celebratory wine, we reconnected with old friends and colleagues andmade new connections. We celebrated the Berkeley Language Center’s history and future,finding renewed inspiration…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on September 14, 2022
Claire Kramsch’s book, Language as Symbolic Power (Cambridge University Press), received the BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) 2022 outstanding book prize. Warmest congratulations, Claire!
Posted by Kimberly Vinall on August 19, 2022
Please join the BLC in extending a very warm welcome to our newly appointed associate director Dr. Emily Hellmich! Emily received her Ph.D. at Berkeley (Language, Literacy, and Culture program of the Graduate School of Education), focusing her studies on language learning and technology. During this time, she served as Managing Editor of the L2…
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 Rick Kern on May 19, 2022
On May 13, with a poignant mixture of gaiety and nostalgia, we celebrated Victoria Williams' 42 years of committed service to UC Berkeley. Victoria has seen the full evolution of the Berkeley Language Center from when it was known as the "Language Lab" under the directorship of Jesse Sawyer, John Polt, Jerry Craddock, John Lindow,…