Workshop: What do we know about (literature) reading proficiency in a second language? Lecture: Foreign languages surviving and thriving in conventional university settings by Elizabeth Bernhardt, Professor of German, and Stanford Language Center, Director, Stanford University, California WORKSHOP: This workshop will focus on second-language reading proficiency with a specific emphasis on upper-level expository and […]
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Lecture by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, February 24, 2006
Berkeley Language Center Spring 2006 Lecture Series Linguistic Human Rights – Some Recent Debates: Intellectual Games versus Respect by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Professor Emerita, Department of Languages and Culture, Roskilde University, Denmark, Department of Education, Åbo Akademi University Vasa, Finland Using concrete examples (from Pennycook, Blommaert, Canagarajah, May, etc), the paper presents and discusses some recent […]
Lecture by Julie Belz, February 17, 2006
At the Intersection of Internet-Mediated Foreign Language Education and Learner Corpus Analysis by Julie Belz, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and German, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency and Education Research, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania Corpus-based approaches to linguistic analysis […]
Lectures by BLC Fellows (N. Euba, D. Malinowski, O. Gurevich, S. Roberts), December 2, 2005
Fall 2005 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Why Teach and Learn German in 2005? Articulating the German Language Program at UC Berkeley Nikolaus Euba, Lecturer, German Several studies conducted among students, alumni, faculty, and GSIs provide the framework for examining the role of the language program within Berkeley’s German department, followed by a […]
Panel Discussion on Grammar and Politics in the Language Classroom, November 18, 2005
Grammar & Politics in the Language Classroom moderated by Sonia S’hiri, Lecturer of Arabic Panel of Respondents Sarah Roberts, French Hatem Bazian, Arabic Jaleh Pirnazar, Persian Yoko Hasegawa, Japanese Sam Mchombo, African Languages Are you the kind of instructor who takes great care in keeping politics of all sorts outside the language classroom or are […]
Lecture by Michael Geisler, September 23, 2005
Metaphors to Die For: Towards a Rhetoric of National Symbols by Michael Geisler, Dean of Language Schools and Schools Abroad, Professor in Linguistics and Languages, Middlebury College, Vermont Panel of Respondents Fayton Henderson, Assistant Coordinator, German Mark Kaiser, Associate Director of the BLC Karen Moller, Coordinator, Scandinavian Sonia Shiri, Coordinator, Arabic More than mere decoration […]
Colloquium on U.S. Language Educational Policy, October 21-22, 2005
National Colloquium on U.S. Language Educational Policy by Colloquium sponsored by the UC Consortium for Learning Language and Teaching Fri.Oct.21, 2005: Policies and Practices in Foreign Language Education 9:00-9:30 Opening remarks: Robert Blake, M.R.C. Greenwood, George W. Breslauer 9:30-12:30 Panel: Sally Magnan, Terrence Wiley, June Phillips Moderator: Peter Patrikis 2:00-5:00 Panel: Kees de Bot, Rick […]
Lecture by Ingrid Piller, October 7, 2005
Ladies from the Philippines are more compatible with American gentlemen than American women: The Linguistic Construction of Identities on Mail-order-bride Websites by Ingrid Piller, Professor and Chair, English Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of English as a Global Language English Department, Basel University, Switzerland The “mail-order bride industry” has boomed in recent years, and the outsourcing […]
Lecture by Sune VorkSteffensen, September 9, 2005
What is Dialectical Ecolinguistics and what can it do for the language teacher? by Sune Vork Steffensen, Scandinavian Institute, University of Aarhus, Denmark Taking as a starting point “the ecological turn,” especially in the humanities and in the linguistic sciences, I present the diverse traditions comprised under the term Ecolinguistics (or Language Ecology) and I […]
Lectures by BLC Fellows (A. Livia, J. Ecke, R. Schechtman, N. Azarian)
Spring 2005 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects How Do You Teach Translation? Anna Livia, Lecturer, French What is the place of translation in the communicative approach to second language pedagogy? For many years translation has been pushed aside in favor of direct communication in the L2. Use of the L1 by learners is often […]