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Lecture, February 17, 2012: Mark Kaiser, Rossella Carbotti

By Orlando Garcia
Published Feb 18, 2012
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Language in Film and the Language of Film: Two Semiotic Systems Engaged by Mark Kaiser and Rossella Carbotti, University of California, Berkeley This presentation addresses the use of film clips in the foreign language classroom. Our main focus will be on film as text and how language use in film works in tandem with cinematic devices to create meaning. We will provide a number of examples from a variety of languages (Italian, Russian, Japanese, Arabic), and provide a framework  →  Read in full

Teaching Intertextuality and Recontextualization through Music

By Maya Smith
Published Jan 15, 2012
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Sensing the opportunity to provide a pedagogical model for the use of music in foreign language teaching, I have created activities that uncover and highlight themes of intertextuality, recontextualization, recognizability, and (re)appropriation through close readings of songs and other cultural texts to which they are linked. My activities are designed to show students how texts shed light on ideological, cultural, and symbolic systems. In order to give instructors access to these  →  Read in full

Lecture, December 2, 2011: BLC Fellows (L. Allais, S. Tuomainen, M. Smith, R. Carbotti)

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Dec 02, 2011
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Fall 2011 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Third Place in the French Classroom: A Separate Space for a New Beginning? Letizia Allais, GSR, Graduate School of Education From Cultural Studies, to Linguistics, to Education, the notion of Third Place has often confused those ideas revolving around identity, language, and people’s sense of belonging. In this project, I attempt to explore Third Place as it is experienced by students of French at Berkeley. Do they  →  Read in full

Lecture, November 9, 2011: Laura Welcher

By Orlando Garcia
Published Nov 10, 2011
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The Rosetta Project: Building a 10,000 Year Archive of All Human Languages by Laura Welcher, Director of Operations and The Rosetta Project 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 in B-4 Dwinelle Hall The Rosetta Project at The Long Now Foundation is working to build an open public digital collection of all human language as well as an analog backup that can last for thousands of year–The Rosetta Disk. In the “long now,” the goal is long-term storage and access to  →  Read in full

Reception for L2 Journal

By Mark Kaiser
Published Nov 01, 2011
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Claire Kramsch, editor of L2 Journal, and Mark Kaiser, guest editor of the special issue, cordially invite the foreign language community to a reception celebrating the release of the special issue, “Teaching Language, Culture and Text with Film.” Tuesday, November 1, 2011 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. 34 Dwinelle Hall

Lecture, October 21, 2011: Douglas Kibbee

By Mark Kaiser
Published Oct 21, 2011
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Rethinking Prescriptivism by Douglas Kibbee, Professor, Department of French, and Director, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Friday, October 21, 2011 in B-4 Dwinelle Hall At a meeting held as part of a national dialogue across France to determine what it means to be French, a participant from Nanterre declared that ‘speaking French correctly’ was an essential attribute. The determination of what  →  Read in full

Colloquium: Moving Between Languages: Research Perspectives

By Rick Kern
Published Oct 07, 2011
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Friday, October 7, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, B-4 Dwinelle Hall Opening remarks by Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley Elizabeth Boner, San Francisco State University Negotiating relationship through translation: How American development practitioners and Tanzanian beneficiaries exploit the gap between languages This paper examines the practice of translation within meetings between American development practitioners and Tanzanian representatives of a local Women’s savings and credit  →  Read in full

Lecture, September 23, 2011: Barbara Johnstone

By Mark Kaiser
Published Sep 23, 2011
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Identifying with Language by Barbara Johnstone, Professor of English and Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University. For the last decade or two, identity has been a hot topic throughout linguistics. Sociolinguists use the concept of identity to help explain why particular styles of speech get taken up in particular speech communities, and how and why people shift from one style to another. In descriptive linguistics, identity enters into arguments in favor of documenting and  →  Read in full

Conference: History and Memory in Foreign Language Study

By Mark Kaiser
Published Sep 10, 2011
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**** Videos now available - please use Safari or Firefox ***** Saturday, Sept.10, 2011 9-5:30 pm 370 Dwinelle INTRODUCTION The MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages (2007) has advocated teaching, together with functional language abilities, ‘critical language awareness’ and ‘historical and political consciousness’. Indeed, the many commemorative events in the cultures we teach as well as the many literary and non-literary texts we deal with in our language classes  →  Read in full

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

Lecture, April 15, 2011: Eva Lam

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Apr 16, 2011
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New Media and Literacy in Transnational Environments by Eva Lam, Associate Professor, Learning Sciences, Asian American Studies, Northwestern University. This paper discusses recent developments in sociolinguistic research that theorizes the nature of language and communicative practices in globalized and transnationalized spaces. We consider how this work proposes some new ways to think about language and literacy in complex local and translocal multilingual environments  →  Read in full

Lecture, April 4: Roger Allen

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Apr 05, 2011
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Arabic: A More Commonly Taught Less Commonly Taught Language by Professor Roger Allen, Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, University of Pennsylvania. After presenting an introduction to the Arabic language and its history, I consider the development of Arabic-language pedagogy within academe over the course of the past half-century. Within the context of current discussions about the goals and methods of language instruction, I consider many of the basic issues raised by the  →  Read in full

Lecture, March 18, 2011: Robert Blake

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Mar 19, 2011
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What Makes an Ideal Hybrid Language Learner? by Professor Robert Blake, Spanish and Classics, University of California, Davis. What factors make for a successful online L2 learning experience? What is the ideal profile of a hybrid language learner with access to both online and classroom meetings? While previous studies have examined online learning in comparative terms (i.e., Which format is better?), this study provides an in-depth look at the factors that might describe the  →  Read in full

Lecture, February 25, 2011: Andrew Cohen

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Feb 26, 2011
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Teaching Pragmatics in the L2 Classroom by Professor Andrew Cohen, Second Language Studies, University of Minnesota. This presentation makes the point that it is not enough these days for teachers simply to teach the language forms; that it is imperative that they also teach their learners strategies for interpreting the language used by others and for saying what they mean to say in the given situation. Too frequently learners memorize words and phrases, and then find that  →  Read in full

Lecture, February 11, 2011: Carol Pfaff

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Feb 12, 2011
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Language Development in an Urban Migrant Community: The Turkish/German/English of Children and Adolescents in Berlin by Professor Carol Pfaff, Department of Linguistics, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Photos from the event: Abstract: In the course of my 30+ years in Berlin, I have conducted several empirical studies of the language development of children and adolescents with Turkish migration background and in this  →  Read in full

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