These are PDF downloads of past BLC Fellows reports. For more recent reports, please refer to the Newsletter Web Articles page.
The Fall 2009 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes BLC Fellows reports from Kristin Dickinson (PhD candidate, Department of Comparative Literature), Adam Mendelson (PhD candidate, Language, Literacy, and Culture, Graduate School of Education), and Junghee Park (Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures). This issue also marks a design change to a new, smaller, journal-like format.
→ Download the Fall 2009 BLC Newsletter (1.7MB .pdf file)
The Spring 2009 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes a conversation with founding BLC Director Claire Kramsch, Associate Director Mark Kaiser, and lecturer Sirpa Tuomainen, notes from BLC Director Richard Kern and Mark Kaiser, an autobiographical lecturer profile of Sirpa Tuomainen, and an introduction to Found in Translation by Usree Bhattacharya.
BLC Fellows reports from Désirée Pries (Lecturer/Second Year Coordinator, French), Jillian Porter (PhD candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Jason Vivrette (PhD candidate, Comparative Literature) are also included in this issue.
→ Download the Spring 2009 BLC Newsletter (676kB .pdf file)
The Fall 2008 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes Andrew Garrett’s commencement address for the Languages and Literature Departments from May 19, 2008 as well as notes from BLC Director Richard Kern and Associate Director Mark Kaiser, and a follow-up report on the France-Berkeley Exchange by Désirée Pries (Lecturer, French).
BLC Fellows reports from Amelia Barili (Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese), Liu Li (Lecturer in Chinese, East Asian Languages and Cultures), Jennifer Gipson (PhD candidate, French), and Julia McAnallen (PhD candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures) are also included in this issue.
→ Download the Fall 2008 BLC Newsletter (3.9MB .pdf file)
The Spring 2008 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes A Conversation with Elana Shohamy and Lisa Little, notes from BLC Director Richard Kern, Associate Director Mark Kaiser, A French Perspective on American Academic Culture by Nicolas Guichon (University of Lyon 2), Françoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt’s report on recent conferences When MERLOT is not a wine: Technology in Language Learning and Teaching, and the World Views on World Languages section, featuring essays by Nikolaus Euba, Sirpa Tuomainen, and Clare You.
BLC Fellows Reports by Clélia F. Donovan (Lecturer in Portugese, Spanish), Miranda I. Kentfield (PhD Candidate, French), Robert Adler Peckerar (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature), and Lyn Scott (PhD Candidate, School of Education) are also included in this issue.
→ Download the Spring 2008 BLC Newsletter (3.9MB .pdf file)
The Fall 2007 issue of the BLC Newsletter includes BLC Associate Director Mark Kaiser’s report on Language Enrollments: 2004 and 2007, notes from Mark Kaiser and Director Richard Kern, and BLC Fellows Reports from Anne Dwyer (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature), Mieka Erley (PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures), Michael Huffmaster (PhD Candidate, German), Noriko Komatsu (Lecturer, Japanese, East Asian Languages and Cultures), and Lihua Zhang (Lecturer, Chinese, East Asian Languages and Cultures).
Also included in this issue are memorial essays for two of our colleagues, Anna Livia Brawn (by Richard Kern) and Agnes Mihalik (by Sirpa Tuomainen).
→ Download the Fall 2007 BLC Newsletter (996kB .pdf file)
The Spring 2007 issue opens with A Conversation with Jim Negri: A View from the High School by Mark Kaiser. Also included are several short reports from lecturers Giovanni Biasin (Italian), Seda Chavdarian (French), Agnes Dimitriou (Spanish and Portuguese), and Sarah Roberts (French). The BLC Fellows’ Reports are from Agnes Mazur (PhD Candidate, Education), Elena Morabito (PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures), Stiliana Milkova (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature), and Liu Li (Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures). There are Notes from both the Director and the Associate Director. Rick Kern’s Did you know that. . . ? column was on the tantalizing topic of secret writing.
→ Download the Spring 2007 BLC Newsletter (228.11KB .pdf file)
The Fall 2006 issue of the BLC Newsletter leads with BLC Director Rick Kern’s prospective view of the Berkeley Language Center, notes from Associate Director Mark Kaiser, a profile of BLC Academic Coordinator Lisa Little, and BLC Fellows Reports from Pablo Baler (PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese), Katra Anne Byram (PhD Candidate, German), David Divita (PhD Candidate, French), Eugenia Teytleman (PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Wakae Kambara (Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures).
Rick Kern’s popular Did you know that. . . ? column discusses Berkeley’s tradition of studying California Indian Languages and the 2006 Breath of Life workshop in particular.
→ Download the Fall 2006 BLC Newsletter (1.5MB .pdf file)
University and National Foreign Language Policy: A Lecturers’ Perspective, by BLC Associate Director Mark Kaiser, leads off the spring 2006 BLC Newsletter. Other features include a report on BLC outreach by BLC Academic Coordinator Lisa Little, a Lecturer Report by Dayton Henderson (PhD Candidate, German), and BLC Fellows’ Reports by Nikolaus Euba (Lecturer, German), David Malinowski (PhD candidate, Education), and Olga Gurevich (PhD candidate, Linguistics).
→ Download the Spring 2006 BLC Newsletter (202.91KB .pdf file)
BLC Director Claire Kramsch reflects on issues of language educational policy in the United States in advance of the national colloquium organized by the UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching in the opening article of the fall 2005 BLC Newsletter. Other pieces include notes from the Associate Director (Mark Kaiser) and the Academic Coordinator (Sonia S’hiri, Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies). Françoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt, a lecturer in French, contributed a report on a National Foreign Language Resource Center summer workshop in which she participated. The BLC Fellows’ Reports are from Natasha Azarian (PhD Candidate, Education), Anna Livia Brawn (Lecturer, French), Jeremy s. ecke [sic] (PhD Candidate, English), and Robert Schechtman (PhD Candidate, German).
→ Download the Fall 2005 BLC Newsletter (274.76KB .pdf file)
This issue (spring 2005) of the BLC newsletter opens with a reflection on the ten-year history and evolution of the Berkeley Language Center, a conversation between Founding Director Claire Kramsch, Associate Director Mark Kaiser, and Academic Coordinator for BLC Outreach Sonia S’hiri. Also featured are an outreach report by Sonia S’hiri and BLC Fellows’ Reports by Ellen Rosenfield (Lecturer, Language Proficiency Program), Lihua Zhang (Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures), Mark Evan Nelson (PhD Candidate, Education), Renee Perelmutter (PhD Candidate, Slavic), and Victoria Somoff (PhD Candidate, Slavic).
→ Download the Spring 2005 BLC Newsletter (310.67KB .pdf file)
The fall 2004 issue of the BLC Newsletter begins with a fascinating conversation between Professor Gunther Kress of the University of London and Mark Evan Nelson, PhD Candidate in the Graduate School of Education. Notes from the Director and Associate Director, and a report on BLC outreach efforts follow the interview. The BLC Fellows’ Reports are by Sarah Bailey (PhD Candidate, German), David Gramling (PhD Candidate, German), and Stephanie Hom Cary (PhD Candidate, Italian Studies).
→ Download the Fall 2004 BLC Newsletter (320.64KB .pdf file)
A Conversation with Leanne Hinton is the fascinating opener for the spring 2004 BLC newsletter, followed by notes from the director, associate director, and outreach coordinator (Claire Kramsch, Mark Kaiser, and Sonia S’hiri, respectively). The BLC Fellows’ Reports are from Clare You (Lecturer and Language Coordinator for Korean, East Asian Languages and Cultures), Sargam Shah (Lecturer, Language Proficiency Program), Polina Barskova (PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Rakhel Villamil-Acera (PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese).
→ Download the Spring 2004 BLC Newsletter (442KB .pdf file)
Anthony Liddicoat opened the fall 2003 BLC newsletter with Teaching Languages for Intercultural Communication. His thought-provoking article is followed by reports from the Director (Claire Kramsch), the Associate Director (Mark Kaiser), and the Coordinator for BLC outreach (Sonia S’hiri). Lowry Martin (PhD Candidate, French) and Michael Chad Wellmon (PhD Candidate, German) contributed their Fellows’ Reports. A number of faculty members shared their impressions of conferences they had attended: Agnes Dimitriou, Claire Kramsch, Sonia S’hiri, and Clare You. Timothy McGovern (Professor of Spanish, UC Santa Barbara) reviewed a textbook for advanced grammar and composition in Spanish, co-written by Agnes Dimitriou, Juan A. Sempere Martínez, and Frances M. Sweeney.
→ Download the Fall 2003 BLC Newsletter (385KB .pdf file)
For the spring 2003 BLC newsletter, Associate Director Mark Kaiser conducted an extensive interview with the creators of Berliner sehen, an immersive multimedia environment for language and culture studies, followed by his Notes. Associate Professor of French Richard Kern contributed an article on what Education Abroad teaches. Agnes Dimitriou (Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese), Paige Daniel Ware (PhD candidate, Education), William Short (PhD candidate, Classics), Kristenn Templeman (PhD candidate, French), and Michael Chad Wellmon (PhD candidate, German) reported on their BLC Fellows’ projects. We had conference reports from Lynne Frame (Lecturer and Language Coordinator, German) and Ellen R. Langer (Lecturer, Slavic Languages and Literatures).
→ Download the Spring 2003 BLC Newsletter (1.4MB .pdf file)
Professor June K. Phillips, Dean of Arts and Humanities, Weber State University, Utah, provoked readers with her lead article in the fall 2002 BLC newsletter, Reality Programming: Survivor, Big Brother, and the OPI. Notes from the Director (Claire Kramsch), the Associate Director (Mark Kaiser), and the Academic Coordinator (Jean Schultz, Lecturer, French) followed. Associate Professor and Japanese Language Coordinator Yoko Hasegawa contributed a detailed description of her department’s Japanese Language Program. Contributing BLC Fellows’ Reports were David Pettersen (PhD candidate, French), David Wacks (PhD candidate, Spanish and Portuguese), and Chantelle Warner (PhD candidate, German). Lecturer in Spanish Agnes Dimitriou contributed two reports on conferences she attended.
→ Download the Fall 2002 BLC Newsletter (309.96KB .pdf file)
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