BLC Fellowships Archive

Translingual / Transcultural Competence: an operational approach to the MLA report

By Désirée Pries
Published Jan 15, 2009
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Filed in Curricular Development, Media, Newsletter Articles, Research, BLC Fellowships, Volume 24, Issue 2

The 2007 MLA report calls for a reevaluation of our curricula, approaches, and methodologies with the goal of fostering translingual and transcultural competence (TL/TC). Comparing an instrumental view of language learning to a constitutive view, the report outlines specific goals and analytical skills for students. In addition to acquiring functional language abilities, students “are taught critical language awareness, interpretation and translation, historical and political  →  Read in full

Filmmaking and Foreign Language Instruction

By Jillian Porter
Published Jan 15, 2009
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Filmmaking is a powerful tool for literacy-based language instruction. Elaborating on the New London Group’s findings, Rick Kern shows that a well-rounded literacy-based program should incorporate four basic curricular components: Situated Practice, Overt Instruction, Critical Framing, and Transformed Practice. Situated Practice involves spontaneous communication without metalanguage. Overt Instruction develops metalanguage by introducing linguistic or social rules and  →  Read in full

Crossing the Bridge: Shifting Perspectives on and in First-Year Turkish Through Film

By Jason Vivrette
Published Jan 15, 2009
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Filed in Curricular Development, Media, Newsletter Articles, Research, BLC Fellowships, Newsletter, Volume 24, Issue 2

This semester, together with the invaluable input of my colleagues in the Berkeley Language Center, fellow first-year Turkish GSI, Kristin Dickinson, and Mellon Lecturer in Turkish, Ayla Algar, I developed a semester’s worth of activities for Turkish 1A (Elementary Modern Turkish) built around film clips taken from Turkish cinema, with one film clip or sequence of film clips serving as the fulcrum for each unit in our textbook (approximately one clip every two to three weeks). A  →  Read in full

Lecture, December 5, 2008: BLC Fellows (D. Pries, J. Vivrette, J. Porter)

By Orlando Garcia
Published Dec 05, 2008
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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 will provide a few concrete examples of how to re-design a foreign  →  Read in full

Lecture, May 9, 2008: BLC Fellows (A. Barili, J. McAnallen, J. Gipson)

By Orlando Garcia
Published May 09, 2008
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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 part of students and develop capacities of autonomous learning and  →  Read in full

Lecture, December 7, 2007: BLC Fellows (C. Donovan, M. Kentfield, R. Adler-Peckerar, L. Scott)

By Orlando Garcia
Published Dec 07, 2007
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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 between linguistic and literary perspectives, thereby creating a more cohesive program. Responding to  →  Read in full

Lecture, May 4, 2007: BLC Fellows (L. Zhang, N. Komatsu, M. Huffmaster, L. M. Erley, A. Dwyer)

By Orlando Garcia
Published May 04, 2007
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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 in interpreting cultural meaning and relating it to their own culture. Non-Linear Teaching  →  Read in full

Lecture, December 8, 2006: BLC Fellows (A. Mazur, S. Milkova, E. Morabito, L. Li)

By Orlando Garcia
Published Dec 08, 2006
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Fall 2006 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Designing Communicative Tasks for the Bulgarian Language Classroom Stiliana Milkova, GSR, Comparative Literature For this project, I have created a handbook of communicative tasks and culture-based activities to facilitate instruction of intermediate Bulgarian at Berkeley. The handbook is meant to provide supplementary materials for five chapters from Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook and Reference Grammar, the only  →  Read in full

Lecture, May 12, 2006: BLC Fellows (W. Kambara, E. Teytelman, D. Davita, K. Byram, P. Baler)

By Orlando Garcia
Published May 12, 2006
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Spring 2006 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects A Supplementary Reading Course in Japanese Wakae Kambara, East Asian Languages and Cultures When students read foreign texts, they frequently reconstruct the meaning of sentences based solely on their lexical knowledge and tend to fail to understand the text accurately. This project attempts to develop methods for teaching grammar essential for reading texts. Unveiling the Magic of Fairy Tales Eugenia Teytelman,  →  Read in full

Lecture, December 2, 2005: BLC Fellows (N. Euba, D. Malinowski, O. Gurevich, S. Roberts)

By Orlando Garcia
Published Dec 02, 2005
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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 discussion of possible implications for program articulation and advertising, curriculum design, and the  →  Read in full

Lecture, May 13, 2005: BLC Fellows (A. Livia, J. Ecke, R. Schechtman, N. Azarian)

By Orlando Garcia
Published May 13, 2005
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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 classified as “interference,” a problem to be solved rather than an essential set of linguistic intuitions which can be articulated  →  Read in full

Lecture, December 10, 2004: BLC Fellows (Rosenfield, Zhang, Nelson, Somoff, Perelmutter)

By Orlando Garcia
Published Dec 10, 2004
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Fall 2004 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects University Classroom Language for IGSI’s Ellen Rosenfield, Lecturer, GSI Teaching and Resource Center International Graduate Student instructors (IGSIs) need authentic practice materials to prepare themselves for the daunting task of teaching introductory level courses in their disciplines in English.  In addition to learning the appropriate discourse markers in English to perform teacher tasks such as emphasizing  →  Read in full

Lecture, May 14, 2004: BLC Fellows (S. Bailey, D. Gramling, S. Hom-Cary)

By Orlando Garcia
Published May 14, 2004
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BLC Fellows’ Presentation Yiddish Language Heritage and Teaching in the 21st Century Sarah Bailey, PhD Candidate, German Yiddish, the thousand-year-old language of Eastern European Jews, bears many of the characteristics of a heritage language but often is overlooked by researchers in pedagogy (heritage language and otherwise).  In this context, teaching Yiddish two generations after the Holocaust challenges the way heritage languages and their learners are currently  →  Read in full

Lecture, December 5, 2003: BLC Fellows (P. Barskova, S. Shah, R. Villamil-Acera, C. You)

By Orlando Garcia
Published Dec 05, 2003
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Instructional Development Research Projects Creative Writing and Reading in Russian: Poetry in Focus Polina Barskova, GSR, Slavic Languages and Literatures My project involved the creation of a syllabus and lesson plans for a course to be offered in Spring 2004.  The goal of this course is to improve student writing, reading and speaking skills through hands-on activities rooted in Russian literature.  Participants will face issues central to Russian poetry of the last three  →  Read in full

Lecture, May 9, 2003: BLC Fellows (M. Lowry, L. Nelson, M. Wellmon)

By Orlando Garcia
Published May 09, 2003
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Instructional Development Research Projects A Spoonful of Films Makes the Literature Go Down: Supplementing French 3 Cirriculum with Filmic Texts Martin Lowry, GSR, Fench This project hopes to capitalize on the semiotic sophistication of students raised in our current film culture.  Rather than reading only written texts, students in this course will be encouraged to analyze and make meaning “beyond and besides words” from semiotic systems other than only the linguistic as  →  Read in full

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