Creating Instructional Materials to Develop AI Literacies Dr. Joel Walsh, Dr. Emily Hellmich, Dr. Kimberly Vinall In this workshop, participants will apply concepts from Thursday’s talk by Dr. Walsh (Responding to the “Arrival”: Essential Background Information and Strategies for Language Instructors in the Age of Human-Like Language Technologies (Machine Translation and Large Language Models)) to […]
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Talk by Dr. Joel Walsh, October 12, 2023
Responding to the “Arrival”: Essential Background Information and Strategies for Language Instructors in the Age of Human-Like Language Technologies (Machine Translation and Large Language Models) Machine translation (MT) systems were once clunky and error-prone but have improved greatly in the last decade. Within the last two years, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have achieved […]
Summer Film Fellows, September 15, 2023
ROUNDTABLE: Film in the Language/Culture Curriculum Mark Kaiser – BLC Associate Director EmeritusMaya Sidhu – Continuing Lecturer, French Department Speakers:Ambika Athreya (German), Myrna Douzjian (Armenian), Nathalie Khankan (Arabic), David Kyeu (Swahili), Natalya Nielsen (Swedish), Oksana Willis (Russian) Led by Mark Kaiser (BLC Associate Director Emeritus) and Maya Sidhu (Continuing Lecturer, French Department), the six speakers […]
BLC Fall 2023 Event Series
Roundtable:Film in the Language/Culture Curriculum Mark Kaiser – Retired BLC Associate DirectorMaya Sidhu – Continuing Lecturer, French Department Speakers:Ambika Athreya (German)Myrna Douzjian (Armenian)Nathalie Khankan (Arabic)David Kyeu (Swahili)Natalya Nielsen (Swedish)Oksana Willis (Russian) Friday, September 15, 3-5pm, B-4 Dwinelle & Zoom Talk:Responding to the “Arrival”: Essential Background Information and Strategies for Language Instructors in the Age of […]
Spring Fellows Forum, April 28, 2023
Spring 2023 BLC Fellows ForumInstructional Development Research Projects Learning Mandarin and Cantonese in Health Communication ContextsChi Leung Chan, Lecturer, East Asian Languages & CulturesWhen Mandarin speakers learn Cantonese (and vice versa), they enjoy abundant transferable knowledge, yet suffer from tricky exceptions. The situation is more acute when it comes to professional contexts. This presentation aims […]
Words in Action, Friday, April 14
Words in Action A Multilingual Student Performance Come and celebrate an afternoon of linguistic diversity as UC Berkeley students perform scenes, songs, and poems with the participation of their respective language lecturers: ARABIC (Amel Belguith, Nathalie Khankan), ARMENIAN (Myrna Douzjian),CATALAN (Ana Belen Redondo Campillos), CHINESE (Lihua Zhang),FILIPINO (Cynthia Agnes Abban, Joy Barrios, Karen Llagas), FRENCH […]
Talk by Avineri & Baquedano-López , April 7, 2023
‘Applied Linguistic Anthropology’ in Action: Language & Social Justice Projects and Praxis Over the past 15 years in the U.S. we have seen an exciting and promising concerted effort to examine, question, and interrupt practices where language is used to create contexts and situations of social inequities. Anthropologists, applied linguists, and scholars in related language […]
Talk by Alastair Pennycook
With a Special Introduction by Claire Kramsch – Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley Alastair Pennycook – Emeritus Professor of Language, Society, and Education, University of Technology Sydney Language as Assemblage A focus on language(s) as assemblage reconfigures what counts as language and how social, spatial and material worlds interact. An understanding of assemblages as entangled groupings […]
Talk by Aurora Tsai, February 15, 2023
Aurora Tsai – Project Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communication Strategies, University of Tokyo Mixed-Heritage Individuals: Rewriting Narratives of Racial, Linguistic and Cultural Deficiency Mixed-heritage individuals often have difficulty forming a positive sense of racial and cultural identity due to monoracial and raciolinguistic ideologies–beliefs that it is natural to categorize people into distinct categories of […]
Workshop by Mark Kaiser and Maya Sidhu, January 30, 2023
WORKSHOP: The Grammar of Film: A Primer for World Language Teachers Mark Kaiser – Retired BLC Associate Director Maya Sidhu – Continuing Lecturer, French Department Designed for language instructors who would like to have a better understanding of the visual language of film in order to enrich classroom discussions on films they teach, this workshop will […]