Results in BLC Posts
Posted by John Wuorenmaa on December 1, 2009
The Fall 2009 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes BLC Fellows reports from Kristin Dickinson (PhD candidate, Department of Comparative Literature), Adam Mendelson (PhD candidate, Language, Literacy, and Culture, Graduate School of Education), and Junghee Park (Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures). This issue also marks a design change to a new, smaller,…
Posted by John Wuorenmaa on May 1, 2009
The Spring 2009 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes a conversation with founding BLC Director Claire Kramsch, Associate Director Mark Kaiser, and lecturer Sirpa Tuomainen, notes from BLC Director Richard Kern and Mark Kaiser, an autobiographical lecturer profile of Sirpa Tuomainen, and an introduction to Found in Translation by Usree Bhattacharya. BLC Fellows reports from…
Posted by John Wuorenmaa on December 1, 2008
The Fall 2008 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes Andrew Garrett’s commencement address for the Languages and Literature Departments from May 19, 2008 as well as notes from BLC Director Richard Kern and Associate Director Mark Kaiser, and a follow-up report on the France-Berkeley Exchange by Désirée Pries (Lecturer, French). BLC Fellows reports from Amelia…
Posted by John Wuorenmaa on May 1, 2008
The Spring 2008 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes A Conversation with Elana Shohamy and Lisa Little, notes from BLC Director Richard Kern, Associate Director Mark Kaiser, A French Perspective on American Academic Culture by Nicolas Guichon (University of Lyon 2), Françoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt’s report on recent conferences When MERLOT is not a wine: Technology in…
Posted by John Wuorenmaa on December 1, 2007
The Fall 2007 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes BLC Associate Director Mark Kaiser’s report on Language Enrollments: 2004 and 2007, notes from Mark Kaiser and Director Richard Kern, and BLC Fellows Reports from Anne Dwyer (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature), Mieka Erley (PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures), Michael Huffmaster (PhD Candidate, German), Noriko Komatsu…
Posted by Victoria Williams on May 1, 2007
The Spring 2007 issue opens with A Conversation with Jim Negri: A View from the High School by Mark Kaiser. Also included are several short reports from lecturers Giovanni Biasin (Italian), Seda Chavdarian (French), Agnes Dimitriou (Spanish and Portuguese), and Sarah Roberts (French). The BLC Fellows’ Reports are from Agnes Mazur (PhD Candidate, Education), Elena…
Posted by Victoria Williams on December 1, 2006
The Fall 2006 issue of the BLC Newsletter leads with BLC Director Rick Kern’s prospective view of the Berkeley Language Center, notes from Associate Director Mark Kaiser, a profile of BLC Academic Coordinator Lisa Little, and BLC Fellows Reports from Pablo Baler (PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese), Katra Anne Byram (PhD Candidate, German), David Divita…
Posted by Victoria Williams on May 1, 2006
University and National Foreign Language Policy: A Lecturers’ Perspective, by BLC Associate Director Mark Kaiser, leads off the spring 2006 BLC Newsletter. Other features include a report on BLC outreach by BLC Academic Coordinator Lisa Little, a Lecturer Report by Dayton Henderson (PhD Candidate, German), and BLC Fellows’ Reports by Nikolaus Euba (Lecturer, German), David…
Posted by Victoria Williams on December 1, 2005
BLC Director Claire Kramsch reflects on issues of language educational policy in the United States in advance of the national colloquium organized by the UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching in the opening article of the fall 2005 BLC Newsletter. Other pieces include notes from the Associate Director (Mark Kaiser) and the Academic Coordinator…
Posted by Victoria Williams on May 1, 2005
This issue (spring 2005) of the BLC newsletter opens with a reflection on the ten-year history and evolution of the Berkeley Language Center, a conversation between Founding Director Claire Kramsch, Associate Director Mark Kaiser, and Academic Coordinator for BLC Outreach Sonia S’hiri. Also featured are an outreach report by Sonia S’hiri and BLC Fellows’ Reports…