BLC Fellowships Archive

Lecture, April 29, 2011: BLC Fellows (M. Jacobsen, L. Stratton, W. Kambara)

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Apr 30, 2011
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Instructional Development Research Projects Language and Culture in Documentaries by Italian Women Filmmakers Mara Mauri Jacobsen, Lecturer, Italian Studies The documentaries I have chosen for my Advanced Italian course present the Italian feminist movement, and/or the lives of Italian women, according to different aspects of the female condition, within the context of Italian culture and history from the Fascist period until today. From the linguistic point of view students are  →  Read in full

Creating Classroom Audio Material from Bulgarian Radio

By Traci Lindsey
Published Jan 15, 2011
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Bulgarian is a less commonly taught language with fewer than 9 million speakers worldwide, and consequently, though there is an excellent textbook and reference grammar available, listening materials are in short supply. In the semesters I spent as a GSI for Bulgarian, I sought ways to incorporate authentic aural material into the course to give students experience with the spoken language beyond what I was able to provide, and it was out of these attempts that I developed my BLC  →  Read in full

Integration of Language and Culture in the Elementary Telugu Curriculum

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Jan 15, 2011
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Telugu belongs to the Dravidian language family and is the second most spoken language in India with more than 80 million speakers. Telugu is mainly spoken in and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It was given classical language status by the Government of India in 2008 because of its rich thousand-year-old literature. Telugu is highly influenced by Sanskrit. To date, there is no comprehensive textbook for teaching Telugu to heritage and non-heritage  →  Read in full

Writing as a Social Act: A Genre-based Approach to Writing Pedagogy in the Foreign Lang. Classroom

By William Heidenfeldt
Published Jan 15, 2011
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Introduction As both students and instructors of foreign languages move into intermediate- and advanced-level courses, they participate in increasingly more complex interactions with each other and also with the texts that they study and create. Students in the second-year French program (French 3 and 4) are expected to work equally in the four areas of language study: speaking, listening, reading, and writing, preparing them for more critical discussions, reading, and writing.  →  Read in full

Lecture, December 3, 2010: BLC Fellows (W. A. Heidenfeldt, H. Sunkari, T. Lindsey)

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Dec 04, 2010
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Fall 2010 BLC Fellows William Allen Heidenfeldt, Hepzibah Sunkari, and Traci Lindsey presented the results of their semester-long research projects to improve the understanding and practice of language instruction. Here are some photos from the event; abstracts from the presentations appear below the images. Congratulations to all the fellows, and thanks to all who were able to attend this event. Writing as a Social Act: A Genre-based Approach to Writing Pedagogy in the  →  Read in full

Cultivating Awareness: Register and Context in First-Year Arabic

By Jason Vivrette
Published Sep 15, 2010
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The teaching of Arabic in American universities today, like that of so many other more commonly taught foreign languages, has by and large come to be guided by the same communicative approach objectives that regularly inform the profession as a whole, such that curricula frequently place an explicit emphasis on the development of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. While there is little question about the fundamental importance of these skills as part of a  →  Read in full

Blogging in SL/FL Classrooms: New(?) Directions?

By Usree Bhattacharya
Published Sep 15, 2010
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Introduction: In recent years, a growing number of educators have begun utilizing “blogs” in Second Language (SL) and Foreign Language (FL) learning environments, to promising results (e.g. Campbell, 2003; Johnson, 2004; Lankshear & Knobel, 2003; Richardson, 2004; Thorne, Webber, & Bensinger 2005). In language learning contexts, blogs can serve a variety of tasks, including allowing students to narrativize the language learning process, facilitating discussions of culture  →  Read in full

Lecture, April 30, 2010: BLC Fellows (A. Bellezza, M. Kim, J. Vivrette, U. Bhattacharya)

By Chris Palmatier
Published Jun 01, 2010
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Presentations by the Spring 2010 BLC Fellows: Audio for all presenters is available below, for both streaming and download. “Teaching Italian through Theatre: A performative approach” by Annamaria Bellezza, Lecturer, Italian Studies Theatre provides the ultimate interactive experience, and as such it represents a powerful, holistic, and comprehensive approach to foreign language teaching, serving as a springboard to upper division literature classes. A dramatic text can be  →  Read in full

Teaching Zulu Language and Culture Through Film

By Galen Sibanda
Published Jan 15, 2010
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Many studies show that film or “video has vast potential for enriching language study and making it more enjoyable and effective” (Wood 1992). My fall 2009 BLC Fellow’s project is a demonstration of how film can complement other materials used in class (especially the textbook) by tapping this resource. It involved cutting and preparing Zulu video clips from a feature film and developing from them exercises later used with my Beginning Zulu class. The goals were to improve  →  Read in full

Using Blogs to Teach Spanish 4

By Heather McMichael
Published Jan 15, 2010
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1. Introduction Blogs written in Spanish are a particularly rich source of contextualized language in use—they are freely available, universally accessible, widely varied, highly interactive, and generally appealing to students. However, some of the same qualities that make blogs attractive for use in a Spanish class also present challenges, especially with regard to their use as a pedagogical tool in our institutional setting. For example, compared to a textbook, blogs are vast;  →  Read in full

Lecture, December 4, 2009: BLC Fellows (G. Sibanda, J. R. Williams, H. McMichael)

By Orlando Garcia
Published Jan 15, 2010
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Fall 2009 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Teaching Zulu Language and Culture Through Film Galen Sibanda, Linguistics Many studies show that film or “video has vast potential for enriching language study and making it more enjoyable and effective” (Wood 1992). This presentation is a demonstration of how film can complement other materials used in class (especially the textbook) by tapping on this great potential. By developing and using exercises  →  Read in full

Online Communication in Beginning Spanish Instruction

By Adam Mendelson
Published Sep 15, 2009
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Prior research indicates that providing language learners with opportunities to interact with one another through online communication tools can promote positive outcomes such as increased motivation, diversified participation, and improved oral production (Lamy & Hampel, 2007). However, with the exception of Blake’s (2000) suggestion that jigsaw activities are especially effective for promoting negotiation of meaning in online chat, I was unable to find other guidelines in the  →  Read in full

Literacy in First-Year Turkish: A Multi-Voiced Approach

By Kristin Dickinson
Published Sep 15, 2009
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My BLC project was conceived largely as an extension of Jason Vivrette’s fall 2008 project for first-semester Turkish. Through a series of film clips that emphasized the multi-cultural nature of Turkish society, Jason encouraged students to reflect critically on both the concept of Turkishness as well as the experience of learning Turkish in an American classroom.  I continued this work in the second-semester classroom through a literacy-based pedagogical approach. My main goal  →  Read in full

Reading TV: Graphic Overtitles in Korean TV Shows

By Junghee Park
Published Sep 15, 2009
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My research starts from the recognition of the importance of teaching media literacy in Korean—a form of literacy which is becoming an essential part of language education today, since knowing how to “read” sophisticated layers of multimodal communication in the written mode of technology-mediated communication is becoming more and more a necessary skill for reading text in general, technology-mediated or not.  For my project, I looked at a unique kind of media literacy in  →  Read in full

Lecture, May 8, 2009: BLC Fellows (K. Dickinson, A. Mendelson, J. Park)

By Orlando Garcia
Published May 08, 2009
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Spring 2009 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Literacy in First-Year Turkish: A Multi-Voiced Approach Kristin Dickinson, GSR, Comparative Literature Extending a BLC project for Turkish 1A in the fall, this semester I have worked to integrate a literacy-based approach into second-semester Turkish (1B). Activities I have designed allow students to approach canonical and non-canonical cultural materials from multiple perspectives. Through exposure to prose,  →  Read in full

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