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Lecture by Jose del Valle, March 4, 2009

Everybody’s Usage: The Politics of Grammar in the “Hispanofonia” by Jose del Valle, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York On March 21st, 2007, the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language officially approved the ‘Nueva Gramatica de la Lengua Espanola’.  It is the first approved by all language academies and the first […]

Lecture by Alice Gaby, February 27, 2009

When is West?  Talking and Thinking about Time and Space by Alice Gaby, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley Friday, February 27, 2009 3:00-5:00 pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall

Lecture by Mark Kaiser, January 30, 2009

Introducing the Library of Foreign Language Film Clips: Modeling Language and Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom by Mark Kaiser, Associate Director, Berkeley Language Center, University of California, Berkeley This workshop will begin with a roll out of the LFLFC website and a demonstration of its functionality, using examples from Russian, Japanese, French, and Spanish. […]

Panel Discussion on Digital Storytelling (J. Lambert, H. Pleasants, M. Nelson), November 24, 2008

Digital Storytelling   PANEL: Joe Lambert, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, San Francisco Will discuss the genesis of Digital Storytelling, showing how DS practices have evolved, and describe current activities at the Center for Digital Storytelling. Heather Pleasants, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama Will present research on how DS relates to issues […]

Lectures by BLC Fellows (D. Pries, J. Vivrette, J. Porter), December 5, 2008

Fall 2008 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects   Translingual/Transcultural competence: an operational approach to the MLA report Desiree Pries, Lecturer, French My project responds to the 2007 MLA report, “Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World,” and the call for translingual and transcultural competence in foreign language studies.  This presentation […]

Lecture by Celeste Kinginger, October 17, 2008

American Students Abroad: Negotiation of Difference? by Celeste Kinginger, Associate Professor of French and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University I will draw from a series of forthcoming case studies (“Language Learning in Study Abroad, Case studies of Americans in France,” Kinginger, 2008) to consider study abroad as a potentially identity-destabilizing experience involving negotiation of […]

Lecture by Peter Patrikis, September 26, 2008

A Brief History of the Universe of Foreign Language Education:  or, Dirty Little Secrets by Dr. Peter Patrikis, Executive Director, The Winston Churchill Foundation Change in the field of foreign languages is often imposed from the outside (national reports, grant-making agencies, area studies programs, etc.), leaving the foreign language teachers subjected to the whim of […]

Lectures by BLC Fellows (A. Barili, J. McAnallen, J. Gipson), May 9, 2008

Spring 2008 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects   Learning to Learn:  Neurobiology and Cognitive Science as a Basis of Autonomous Learning.  Principles and Applications Amelia Barili, Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese Universities throughout the world are discussing (and beginning to implement) a shift from teaching-centered approaches to learning-centered ones that foster great commitment on the […]

Lecture by Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, April 18, 2008

The Question of Competence in Language Socialization Research: An Analysis of Rehearsals in Children’s Religious Ritual Practice by Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, Professor of Language and Literacy, Society and Culture, University of California, Berkeley “The study of language socialization has as its goal the understanding of how persons become competent members of social groups and the role […]

Lecture by Deborah Anderson, March 14, 2008

The Script Encoding Initiative and Language Teaching and Scholarship for Minority and Historic Languages on the Web by Deborah Anderson, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley The Script Encoding Initiative (SEI), a project in the Linguistics Department, helps user communities and scholars get various writing systems into Unicode, the international character-encoding standard.  Ultimately, the […]


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