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Lecture, May 1, 2006: Madeline Spring

By Orlando Garcia
Published May 01, 2006
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Berkeley Language Center Spring 2006 Lecture Series The K-16 Chinese Flagship Program: A Model for the Future by Madeline Spring, UO Chinese Flagship K-16 Academic Director, Center for Applied Second Language Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene OR The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) at the University of Oregon and the Portland Public School District (PPS), co-beneficiaries of a generous National Security Education Program (NSEP) grant, are collaborating to  →  Read in full

Workshop & Lecture, April 28, 2006: Steven Thorne & Scott Payne

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Published Apr 28, 2006
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Workshop: A Practical Introduction to the Use of Corpora Lecture: Corpus Linguistics and Language Development: Research, Assessment, and Pedagogical Innovation Steven Thorne, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Applied Languages Studies, The Pennsylvania State Univeristy, Pennsylvania Scott Payne, Assistant Director, Center for Language Acquisition for Technology and Research, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania WORKSHOP: In this interactive workshop  →  Read in full

Workshop & Lecture, March 10, 2006: Elizabeth Bernhardt

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Published Mar 10, 2006
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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 literary texts.  The workshop will shift between and among  →  Read in full

Lecture, February 24, 2006: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

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Published Feb 24, 2006
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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 criticism of what is called by “critics” the  →  Read in full

Lecture, February 17, 2006: Julie Belz

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Published Feb 17, 2006
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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 have emerged as a valuable tool for the  →  Read in full

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

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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, November 18, 2005: Panel Discussion

By Orlando Garcia
Published Nov 18, 2005
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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 you the kind that wishes he/she could bring in more materials that address relevant political issues?  Do you find that  →  Read in full

Lecture, September 23, 2005: Michael Geisler

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Published Oct 23, 2005
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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 or official state functions, national symbols are an integral part of both  →  Read in full

Lecture, October 21-22, 2005: UCCLLT Colloquium

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Published Oct 22, 2005
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National Colloquium on U.S. Language Educational Policyby 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 Donato, Mahmoud Al-Battal, Donna  →  Read in full

Lecture, October 7, 2005: Ingrid Piller

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Published Oct 07, 2005
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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 of sexual, emotional, and reproductive labor it implies is often  →  Read in full

Lecture, September 5, 2005: Sune Vork Steffensen

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Published Sep 09, 2005
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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 suggest a principle that unites these seemingly quite different traditions. I then outline the basic ideas  →  Read in full

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

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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, May 4, 2005: Nick Ellis

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Published May 04, 2005
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At the Interface: Dynamic Interactions of Explicit and Implicit Language Knowledge by Nick Ellis, Professor of Psychology, Research Scientist, English Language Institution, University of Michigan Much of language learning is done implicitly form naturalistic usage.  What then, if any, are the roles of explicit instruction and explicit learning in second language acquisition?  The ‘interface question’ has lain at the heart of applied linguistic theory for 30 years or more.  It  →  Read in full

Lecture, April 19, 2005: Rick Kern & Tim Wolcott

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Published Apr 19, 2005
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Linguistic and Cultural Identity in Study Abroad by Rick Kern, Associate Professor, Director, French Language Program & Timothy Wolcott, Graduate Student, School of Education Empirical studies of study abroad that track language acquisition gains in terms of specific structures show mixed results.  Many students report, moreover, that language acquisition is just a small part of their study abroad experience, which is often described as “transformative.”  This presentation  →  Read in full

Lecture, April 6, 2005: Imre Galambos

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Published Apr 06, 2005
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Digitizing Dunhuang: The Virtual Recreation of a Mediaeval Library Cave by Imre Galambos, Overseas Project Manager, IDP, British Library The opening of the Dunhuang cave library in the early 1900’s has been the largest discovery of medieval manuscripts ever.  The world’s earliest and largest paper archive, the cave’s contents included many unique documents, including the world’s earliest dated printed book (868 AD).  Since then, the collection has been scattered across  →  Read in full

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