Travel Grant Program Archive

BLC Travel Grant Report

By I-hao Li
Published May 08, 2013
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This past December, I participated in The 2012 International Conference of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language Conference. In this conference, there were several topics covered. The ones that stood out exceptionally were: Teaching Methodology, Language Analysis, Research, and Material and Grammatical Analysis and Presentation. I found these topics to be very helpful to my current teaching methods. For Teaching Methodology, I learned answers to questions like if less time is  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Seung-Eun Chang
Published May 08, 2013
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I attended the AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics) Dallas 2013 in Dallas, Texas, March, 2013. I presented my research entitled “L2 accent transfer in L3 production: Evidence from L3 Korean”. This is my first participation in AAAL, which I’ve heard a lot from the Applied Linguistics people and yes, it was a valuable opportunity to look at the practical techniques and theories applied in real classroom settings. My research is about multilingual effects in the  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Bac Hoai Tran
Published May 08, 2013
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This year the AAS (Association for Asian Studies) Annual Conference was held in San Diego, March 21-24. I myself took part in a roundtable titled “New Approaches to Teaching Advanced Level Vietnamese Language to Heritage and Non-Heritage Students.” A short abstract of our discussion can be found online, at http://www.asian-studies.org/conference, and conveniently included below for your perusal: This roundtable discussion attempts to introduce and discuss creative ways in which  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Weisi Cai
Published Jan 31, 2013
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Thanks to the BLC and its generous travel grant, I was able to attend the 2012 Chinese Language Teachers Association Conference held in Philadelphia. During the three-day conference, hundreds of Chinese language teachers shared their research results and different views of how to teach Chinese effectively. I was honored to have the opportunity to share with my peers about my study on the implications of incidental vocabulary learning for in-class vocabulary teaching. It is known  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Seda Chavdarian
Published Jan 31, 2013
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Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association-66th Annual Convention, October 10-13, 2012. Once again this year, the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual conference proved to be as stimulating as ever. I have been presenting papers at the RMMLA for over a decade now and every year, without exception, the RMMLA delivers an excellent variety of interdisciplinary literature and pedagogy sessions, high quality presentations, and a genuine sense of collegiality and  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Chika Shibahara
Published Oct 24, 2012
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In August 2012, I attended The Japan Association for Language Education & Technology (J-LET) annual conference in Kobe. I am grateful to the BLC for the generous financial travel support. At the conference I co-presented with Mark Kaiser a paper on “Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence Through Film Clips.” He introduced the BLC’s ongoing film clips project and provided a theoretical background to the use of film to teach language and culture, drawing on  →  Read in full

2012-2013 Title VI Travel Grants for Foreign Language Lecturers

By Victoria K. Williams
Published Aug 02, 2012
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See the Travel Grant Program tab here at the BLC website for information and an application.

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Elizabeth Boner
Published May 23, 2012
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Thanks to the generosity of the BLC and the Center for African Studies, I attended this year’s African Language Teachers Association (ALTA)/National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) conference in Madison, Wisconsin. The stated goal of the joint conference was “Promoting Advanced Language and Intercultural Proficiency in African Languages and other LCTLs.” The main reason I like to attend this conference is the human element: I enjoy updating old  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Vesna Rodic
Published Apr 04, 2012
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This year, I attended the 2012 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention in Seattle, WA. My presence at the convention was motivated by my interest in both literary studies and pedagogy. As a panelist on a special session on nineteenth-century flânerie in Paris, I presented a paper titled “Elevated Flâneries: Bourgeois Women, Spectatorship, and the Façades of Haussmann’s Paris.” My talk focused on the literary and artistic representation of bourgeois women in relation  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Seung-Eun Chang
Published Jan 24, 2012
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I attended the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in Portland, Oregon, in January 2012. I presented my research about multilingualism. While teaching Korean at Berkeley, I found an interesting pattern among native English-speaking students who were learning Korean after learning Japanese. They demonstrated a distinctive pattern; when speaking Korean in class, they had a strong Japanese accent and used Japanese gestures, even though their native language  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Seda Chavdarian
Published Nov 18, 2011
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Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Convention Scottsdale, Arizona October 6-8, 2011 I have been participating in the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual conference for several years now. As a Senior Lecturer with limited university funding options for attending conferences, I choose them very carefully. I attend the ones where I would learn and benefit the most from presenting papers, attending sessions, and engaging in productive conversations about teaching and  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By I-hao Li
Published Nov 18, 2011
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I attended three ten-day Chinese teaching workshops held by National Cheng Kung University in Tainan city, Taiwan, on June 27, June 28, July 10, and July 24. The workshops were offered for teachers currently teaching Chinese in America. I gave a four-hour presentation at each of my three workshops on Teaching Advanced Chinese. In the first and second hour of my workshop I introduced the textbook, teaching method, and teaching goal employed in the third-year Chinese language  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Sally Goldman
Published Mar 31, 2011
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Perhaps I might be considered something just short of insane to undertake a one-week journey halfway around the world to attend a three-day conference. But in the third week of February this is exactly what I did. I have to admit I had a few doubts about the undertaking; the trip itself takes at least twenty-four hours each way. But the topic was intriguing: domesticity and the household in ancient and medieval India. I had been approached about attending the conference last spring  →  Read in full

BLC Travel Grant Report

By Ellen Langer
Published Mar 31, 2011
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I attended the 2011 Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages in Pasadena, January 6-9 on funds provided by the Berkeley Language Center. I presented a poster at AATSEEL’s first-ever poster session, Teaching Less Commonly Taught Slavic Languages and Central/East European Languages II. The poster session was experimental and was judged by the participants to be a great success. Each presenter had five minutes to give an  →  Read in full

Higher Ceilings on Travel Support

By Mark Kaiser
Published Mar 26, 2011
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Effective July 1st, the BLC will support lecturer travel to conferences where the lecturer is giving a paper up to $750 for domestic travel, and up to $1000 for international travel, subject to budget restrictions. This compares with a $500 limit on all travel support the past several years. The reality is that even a 3-day trip to LA, once hotels and conference registration are considered, is likely to run well over $1000. We hope these new ceilings will alleviate some of the  →  Read in full

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