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 […]
Events at the BLC
Archive
Lecture by Jay Lemke, February 8, 2008
Meaning and Feeling: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Affect by Jay Lemke, Professor in the School of Education, Department of Educational Studies, University of Michigan How does language make us feel? Both when we use a language, and when we respond to the language used by others? What part of meaning is felt, and what […]
Workshop by Rick Kern, January 25, 2008
Pedagogical Workshop on Literacy-Based Language Teaching by Rick Kern, Professor of French and Director of Berkeley Language Center, University of California, Berkeley Writing and the visual media are our main resources for learning about and relating to all the past and present worlds outside our own community. When we examine the particular ways that other […]
Lectures by BLC Fellows (C. Donovan, M. Kentfield, R. Adler-Peckerar, L. Scott), December 7, 2007
Fall 2007 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Reevaluating and Redesigning the Portuguese Language Curriculum Clélia F. Donovan, Lecturer, Spanish & Portuguese Making the shift from language classes to courses in literature has long been arduous for both students and teachers. This project proposes lesson plans and activities that bring into play the link […]
Lecture by John Norris, October 12, 2007
Using Assessment for Understanding and Improving Language Education by John Norris, Professor of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Along with curriculum and instruction, assessment plays a fundamental role in shaping the value and effectiveness of language education programs. Assessment can and should be used for illuminating learners’ needs, monitoring progress, determining outcomes, […]
Lecture by Claire Kramsch, September 21, 2007
Language Ecology in Practice: Implications for Foreign Language Education by Claire Kramsch, Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of California, Berkeley Language ecology as applied to language learning has been defined as a “convenient metaphor for a post-structuralist conceptualization of language learning as a nonlinear, relational human activity, co-constructed between humans and their […]
Lecture, May 4, 2007: BLC Fellows (L. Zhang, N. Komatsu, M. Huffmaster, L. M. Erley, A. Dwyer)
Spring 2007 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Teaching Chinese Culture and Communicative Discourse through Film Lihua Zhang, East Asian Languages and Cultures This project has designed exercises for video clips to be used as scaffolding guiding students to analyze communicative discourse and explore cultural dimensions of discourse pragmatics as well as engage them […]
Lecture by Elana Shohamy, April 27, 2007
Language Policy in Multilingual Israel: Ideologies, Conflicts, Rights, and Research by Elana Shohamy, (Professor, Tel Aviv University), Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley Language policies, whether on the educational or societal level, are products of political, social, economic, and education ideologies. As such, languages and language policies are used as major symbols of […]
Lecture by Masako Hiraga, April 6, 2007
Iconic Creativity in Haiku: A Linguistic Analysis of Basho’s Revisions by Masako Hiraga, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley This presentation focuses on the styles of meaning creation by metaphor and iconicity in Basho’s haiku. The analysis particularly looks at the revising process of his two haiku texts, in terms of semantics, […]
Lecture by Joe Lo Bianco, March 16, 2007
Too Much and Not Enough Identity: Constituting English in Asian Language Policy Circles by Joseph Lo Bianco, Chair of Language and Literacy Education, University of Melbourne, Australia This lecture discusses recent and long-standing attributions of both cultural neutrality and bias in and for English. The lecture will trace both recent and longer term associations of […]