Friday, September 7 - Lecturer Open House Please come join us for refreshments and conversation. 34 Dwinelle Hall, Claire Kramsch Lounge , 3:30-5 p.m.
Friday, September 21 - Claire Kramsch Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition
University of California, Berkeley Language Ecology in Practice: Implications for Foreign Language
Education 2040 Valley Life Science Bldg., 3-5 p.m. ) Abstract Lecture
Sound Recording PowerPoint (TM) Presentation
Friday, October 12 -John Norris Professor of Second Language Studies, University of
Hawaii at Using Assessment for Understanding and Improving Language
Education
B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m. Abstract Lecture
Sound Recording PowerPoint (TM) Presentation
Friday, November 9-UCB Lecturers Panel
Lisa Little, Lecturer of Slavic Languages, Moderator
Nikolaus Euba, German, Assessment
and Articulation through Language Portfolios
Sirpa Tuomainen, Scandinavian, Authentic Assessment – an
Alternative or an Addition?
Sarah Roberts, French, An Alternative to Traditional
Peer Editing
Marilyn Seid-Rabinow, GSI Teaching and Resource Center, Insights
Gained from Oral English Proficiency Testing
Mark Kaiser and Lisa Little, Berkeley Language Center, Computer-based
Chapter Tests: A Formative Approach
Reevaluating and Redesigning the Portuguese Language Curriculum
Clelia F. Donovan, Lecturer, Spanish & Portuguese Abstract
Reading
Les Misérables:
A Study of Students' Developing Ability to Read and Interpret French
Literature Miranda I. Kentfield, GSR, French PowerPoint
(TM) Presentation
Cultural and Communicative Competence in Yiddish:
Strategies for Teaching a Non-Territorial Language Robert Adler-Peckerar, GSR, German/Comparative Literature Abstract
Designing Instruction for English Learners from
an Ecological Perspective of Language Learning Lyn Scott, GSR, Graduate School of Education Abstract Forum
Sound Recording
Friday, March 16 -Joseph Lo Bianco Chair,Language
and Literacy Education, University of Melbourne,
Australia Too Much and Not Enough Identity: Constituting English in
Asian Language Policy Circles B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m. Abstract Lecture
Sound Recording
Friday, April 27 - Elana Shohamy
Professor, Tel Aviv University and Visiting
Professor, Graduate School of Education,
University of California, Berkeley Language Policy in Multilingual Israel: Ideologies, Conflicts,
Rights, and Research 2515 Tolman Hall, 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Monday, April 30 -Ingvild Nistov University of Bergen,
Department of Scandanavian Languages and Literature Spoken Norwegian in Today's Oslo: On Language Use by Adolescents
in Multiethnic Settings 6415 Dwinelle Hall
4:30-5:30 p.m. Abstract
Friday, May 4 - BLC Fellows Forum
Anne E. Dwyer
L. Mieka Erley
Michael Huffmaster
Noriko K. Wallace
Lihua Zhang
Instructional Development Research Projects B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Fall 2006 Lecture
Series
Friday, Sept 15 - Daniel Shanahan Professor of Communications, Humanities Faculty, Charles
University in Prague Language, Feeling and the Brain: A Pribram-Based Model
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m. Lecture
Sound Recording
Friday, September 22 -Janet Swaffar Department of
Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin Some Thoughts on the Cultural Permutations of Literacy in
Language Teaching 370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Lecture Sound Recording
Friday, October 13 - William Hanks
Professor of Social, Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Department
of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley Joint Commitment and Common Ground in a Maya Ritual Event
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m. Lecture
Sound Recording
Friday, November 3 - UCB Lecturers Panel
Claire Kramsch and the BLC: Her Legacy to Berkeley
Language Lecturers
Lisa Little, Slavic Languages, Moderator Karen Møller,
Scandinavian Nikolaus Euba, German Rutie Adler, Near Eastern Studies Lihua Zhang, East Asian Languages Herminia Kerr, Spanish Seda Chavdarian, French
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Thursday, December 7 - Tony Liddicoat
Research Centre for Languages and Cultures Education, School of International
Studies, University of South Australia Research
Centre for Languages and Cultures Education Teaching Culture through Grammar B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, December 8 - BLC Fellows Forum
Liu Li Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures Designing a Content-based Module for First-Year Mandarin
Chinese Heritage Students
Agnes Mazur GSR, Graduate School of Education An Ecological Perspective on Modeling Writing to Language
Learners in Two Secondary English Classrooms
Stiliana Milkova GSR, Comparative Literature Designing Communicative Tasks for the Bulgarian
Language Classroom
Elena Morabito
GSR, Slavic Languages and Literatures Designing a Bosnian Language Corpus
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Spring 2006 Lecture Series
Friday, February 17 - 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 At the Intersection of Internet-mediated Foreign Language Education and
Learner Corpus Analysis
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m. Lecture Sound Recording
Friday, February 24 -Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Department of Education, Åbo Akademi University Vasa, Finland Linguistic Human Rights – Some Recent Debates: Intellectual Games
Versus Respect 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m. Lecture Sound Recording
Friday, March 10 - Elizabeth Bernhardt
Professor of German, and Director, Stanford Language Center, Stanford University,
California
Workshop 1:30-3:00 p.m. What Do We
Know About (Literature) Reading Proficiency in a Second Language
Lecture 4:00-5 p.m. Foreign Languages Surviving and
Thriving in Conventional University Settings
370 Dwinelle Hall
Friday, April 28 - Steve Thorne Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Applied Language
Studies
The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania
Scott Payne Assistant Director for Technology and Research, Center for Language
Acquisition
The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania
Workshop 1:30-3.00 p.m. Data-driven Approaches
to Second Language Assessment, Pedagogy,
and Research
Lecture 4:00 p.m.-5.00 p.m. Corpus Linguistics
and Language Development: Research, Assessment,
and Pedagogical Innovation 370 Dwinelle Hall Lecture
Sound Recording
Monday, May 1 - Madeline Spring UO Chinese Flagship K-16 Academic Director, Center for Applied Second
Language Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon The K-16 Chinese Flagship Program: A Model for the Future 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m
Friday, May 12 - BLC Fellows Forum
Pablo F. Baler
Wakae Kambara
Eugenia Teytelman
David S. Divita Katra
Anne Byram
Instructional Development Research Projects 370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m
A reception follows each lecture.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored by the College
of Letters and Science and by Berkeley's eight National Resource Centers
under a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Fall 2005 Lecture
Series
Friday, September 23 - Michael Geisler
Dean of Language Schools and Schools Abroad, Professor in Linguistics and Languages
Middlebury College, Vermont Metaphors to Die for: Towards a Rhetoric of National Symbols
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m. Lecture
Sound Recording Lecture PDF
Friday, October 7 - Ingrid Piller Professor and Chair in English Sociolinguistics and the Sociology
of English as a Global Language, English Department
Basel University, Switzerland Ladies from the Phillippines Are More Compatible with American Gentlemen
Than American Women: The Linguistic Construction of Identities on Mail-Order-Bride
Websites 370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
National Colloquium on U.S. Language
Educational Policy
Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October
22
9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Location TBA
Grammar and Politics in the Language Classroom Sonia S'hiri, Arabic, Moderator Hatem Bazian, Arabic Yoko Hasegawa, Japanese
Sam Mchombo, African Languages
Jaleh Pirnazar, Persian
Sarah Roberts, French
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m. Discussion
Sound Recording
Friday, December 2 - BLC Fellows Forum
Nikolaus Euba, German Why Teach and Learn German in 2005? Articulating the German Language
Program at UC Berkeley 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 professional development of graduate student instructors.
David Malinowski, Education Culture in Place: An Online Forum for Discussing the Korean-English
Linguistic Landscape The presenter discusses the creation of a bilingual website
for learners of Korean and English to explore, learn, and develop
a critical awareness of each other’s languages and cultures
as they are written into the everyday landscape of shop signs, billboards,
street signs, and other language-in-place. Based on two weeks of
use by over 75 students in Berkeley’s Korean classes, an English
class at Suwon University in Korea, and learners in non-university
contexts, preliminary findings regarding the affordances and limitations
of such a site for achieving language learning goals are presented.
Olya Gurevich, Linguistics Georgian Verbs and How to Use Them: An Online Reference
Georgian is a less-commonly-taught language with a complex grammar that presents
much difficulty for the learner. I present an online database of verbal conjugations
and real-life examples to ease learning the language and to supplement the
classroom experience.
Flâneur de Paris: An Interactive Learning Environment
for French Conversation
Sarah Roberts French, BLC Research Associate
This website, constructed around metro and street maps of Paris, offers students
of conversation a multimodal, virtual learning environment for use outside
the classroom. Capitalizing on that which is unique to the web as a medium,
as well as that which is unique to Paris as a city, it aims to provide a rich
assortment of shared experiential data and cultural information on which learners
can draw to inform their conversations in class
B-4 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
A reception follows each lecture.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored by the College
of Letters and Science and by Berkeley's eight National Resource
Centers under a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Spring 2005 Lecture
Series
Colloquium
Teaching Foreign Languages in Multilingual, Multicultural Environments
Saturday, February 12 and Sunday, February 13
9:00 a.m.- 6 p.m.
370 Dwinelle Hall
Tuesday, February 15 - Alastair Pennycook Acting Dean, Research and Development and Professor of Language in
Education
Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia The Perils of Language Ecology 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5-7 p.m.
Wednesday, March 16 - Dick Schmidt Professor, Department of Second Language Studies,
University of Hawai`i
Director, National Foreign Language Resource Center Fifty Probably True and Useful Findings from SLA 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Tuesday April 19 - Rick Kern
Assoiate Professor, Director, French Language Program
University of California, Berkeley Linguistic and Cultural Identity in Study Abroad 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4 - Nick Ellis Professor of Psychology
Research Scientist, English Language Institute
University of Michigan At the interface: Dynamic Interactions of Explicit and Implicit Language
Knowledge 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Friday, May 13 - BLC Fellows
Anna Livia Brawn
Techniques of Translation
Jeremy Ecke
Grammatical Estrangement
Robert T. Schechtman "Was fur Gemeinschaft?": A Critical Examination
of 'community' in German Language Instruction
Natasha Azarian
An Ethnographic Study of a Multigenerational Ethnic Community:
The Armenians of Fresno, Ecological Implications for the Teaching of Less Commonly
Taught Languages 370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Fall 2004 Lecture Series
Friday, September 24 - Leslie Moore
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Informal Learning and Schools, UCSC Insights into SLA from Less Familiar Settings
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, October 15 - Patricia Duff
Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education,
University of British Columbia
Heteroglossia in Foreign Language Classrooms: Research, Debates, and Issues 370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, November 5 - Panel Discussion Gesture in Mediational Practice: Embodied Cognition and Semiotic
Acts in Language Teaching Irene Mittelberg
Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics, Linguistics Department, Cornell University Eve Sweetser
Professor, Linguistics Department, UC Berkeley
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, December 10 - BLC Fellows Ellen Rosenfield (Lecturer, GSI Teaching & Resource
Center), Lihua Zhang (Lecturer, East Asian Languages and
Cultures), Mark Nelson (GSR, Education), Victoria Somoff (GSR, Slavic Languages and Literatures) Renee Perelmutter (GSR, Slavic Languages and Literatures)
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Spring 2004 Lecture Series
Friday, February 6 Panel Discussion: The Role of Translation in Language
Study
Anna Livia Brawn (French) French Department Naturalization or Estrangement: Options in Translation
Susan Kepner (Thai) South and Southeast Asian Studies Department Teaching Language Students to Translate Literature
Ibrahim Muhawi
(Arabic) Near Eastern Studies Issues in Folkloristic Translation
Kay Richards (Korean) East Asian Languages and Cultures Department Translation: Transliteration to Biliteracy
Bac Tran (Vietnamese) South and Southeast Asian Studies Department Enhancement of Sensitivity to Language through Translation: Something Gained
Moderator: Winfried Kudszus German Department
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Thursday, February 19 - Lourdes Ortega
Assistant Professor , English Department, Northern Arizona University The Ethical as Transformative Lens in Instructed SLA Research
370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 pm. Abstract
Thursday, March 18 - Mary Pratt
Silver Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature,
New York University Towards an Ecology of Language
370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Tuesday, April 20 - Gunther Kress
Professor, Institute of Education, University of London Designing and Reading Multimodal Texts: Modes, Media, Knowledge and Meaning
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, May 14 BLC Fellows' Presentation
Sarah Bailey, David Gramling, Stephanie Hom-Cary
Instructional Development Research Projects
370 Dwinelle, 3-5 p.m.
A reception follows each lecture.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored
by the College of Letters and
Science and by Berkeley's eight National Resource Centers under
a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Fall 2003 Lecture Series
Monday, September 29 -Shirley Brice
Heath Professor Emerita, Department of English and Dramatic Literature,
and
of Linguistics, Stanford University What is Language as Knowledge? 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Friday, October 31- Leanne Hinton Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley Teaching Endangered Languages
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, November 14 - Kirk Belnap
Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages, Brigham
Young University
and
Guadalupe Valdes
Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Stanford University
Moderator: Claire Kramsch
Heritage Language Teaching, Foreign Language Teaching: What one can
Learn from the Other 370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, December 5 BLC Fellows' Presentation
Polina Barskova, Sargam Shah, Rakhel Villamil-Acera, Clare You 370 Dwinelle, 3-5 p.m.
Spring 2003 Lecture Series
Friday, February 7 - Fred Genesee Professor of Psychology, McGill University Portrait of the Bilingual Child 370 Dwinelle Hall
4-6 p.m. Abstract
Friday, February 21 - Aneta Pavlenko College of Education, Temple University Bilingualism, Emotions, and Cognition
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Monday, March 10 - Dan I. Slobin
Professor, Dept. of Psychology, UC Berkeley How People Talk about Motion Events: Some Cognitive and Communicative
Consequences of Linguistic Typology
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3 -5 p.m.
Friday, April 4, 1-5 p.m.
Saturday, April 5, 8-5 p.m.
Language, Identity and Change in
the Modern World: Implications for the Study of Language and Culture
Speakers: Clive Holes, Oxford University (Keynote Speaker) Social History, Political History, and Dialect Prestige in
the Arab World: The Cases of Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq
Ibrahim Muhawi, Edinburgh University Negotiating Palestinian Diaspora: Translation and the Language
of Exile
Mahmoud Al-Batal, Emory University Identity and Language Tension in Lebanon: The Arabic of Local
News on LBC Television
Loukia Sarroub, University of Nebraska The Literacy Practices of Yemeni and Iraqi Youth: Life In
and Out of School in Dearborn, Michigan and Lincoln, Nebraska
Mushira Eid, University of Nebraska Language, and Gender and Egyptian Cinema
John Hayes, UC Berkeley Arabic and Evolving National Identities in the Middle East
Sonia Shiri, UC Berkeley Tunisian Arabic Speakers on the Periphery of Arab Identity?:
Native Speakers and Learners' Linguistic Attitudes
Ella Shohat, New York University Reflections of an Arab Jew
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities,
220 Stephens Hall
Monday, April 14 - Tim McNamara
Professor, Dept. of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne Title: TBA
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3 -5 p.m.
Friday, May 9
BLC Fellows-Spring 2003 Martin Lowry, Luh Hsyng Nelson, Michael Chad Wellmon Instructional Development Research Projects
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Monday - Friday, June 23-27 Professional Development Workshop: Discourse and Culture in Language
Study
Speakers: Robin Lakoff, UC Berkeley Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University Anthony Liddicoat, Australia
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall
A reception follows each lecture.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored
by the College of Letters and
Science and by Berkeley's eight National Resource Centers under
a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Friday, September 13 - Guadalupe Valdes Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Stanford University Teaching the Commonly Taught Languages as Heritage Languages:
Questions and Continuing Dilemmas
370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
NOV. 4th EVENT CANCELED:
Monday, November 4 -Theo van Leeuwen Professor, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University Image Banks and the Semantics of Contemporary Visual Communication 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, November 15 - Ellen W. Crocker Senior Lecturer in German
Foreign Languages and Literatures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kurt E. Fendt, Research Associate in Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Participatory Narratives: Community, Identity, and the Teaching
of Culture Abstract http://web.mit.edu/ffl/www/projects/BerlinerSehen.html http://metamedia.mit.edu
33 Dwinelle
3-5 p.m.
Friday, December 6 - Paige Daniel, Agnes
Dimitriou, William Short,
Kristen Templeman, Michael Chad Wellmon BLC Fellows - Fall 2002 Instructional Development Research Projects 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
A reception follows each lecture.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored
by the College of Letters and
Science and by Berkeley's eight National Resource Centers under
a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Spring 2002 Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 12 - Norman Fairclough Professor of Language in Social Life, Lancaster University, UK Critical Discourse Analysis in Social Research 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEW
COLLOQUIUM
Sessions include an introduction to
the Oral Proficiency Interview, including demonstrations of sample interviews
in several languages, and a discussion of its merits and implications for
the curriculum.
Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February
23
370 Dwinelle Hall
Free and Open to the Public
PROGRAM:
Friday, Feb 22
OPENING REMARKS. 1:00-1:15 p.m. Claire Kramsch, Director, Berkeley Language Center, UC Berkeley
SESSION 1 1:15-3:00 General Introduction to the Oral Proficiency Interview
Chantal Thompson, Brigham Young University
SESSION 2 3:30-5:30 p.m. OPI Sample Interviews French - Jean Schultz 33 Dwinelle Spanish - Agnes Dimitriou 370 Dwinelle Italian - Armando Di Carlo 34 Dwinelle Russian - Ben Rifkin B-4 Dwinelle English - Chantal Thompson 371 Dwinelle
Saturday, February 23
SESSION 1 8:30-9:30 a.m. Ray Clifford, Defense Language Institute Proficiency/Performance/Achievement Testing
SESSION 2 10:00-11:00 a.m. Rafael Salaberry, Rice University OPI and Policy Questions at the Department, University and Government Level
SESSION 3 11:00-12:00 p.m.
June Phillips, Weber State University The Relationship of the OPI and Foreign Language Standards
Lunch Break 12:00
SESSION 4 1:30-2:30 p.m. Ben Rifkin, University of Wisconsin OPI and the Curriculum
SESSION 5
2:30-3:30 p.m. Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies Limitations of the OPI
DISCUSSION
3:30-4:30 p.m.
CLOSING RECEPTION
4:30-5:30 p.m.
For further information contact:
Berkeley Language Center,
(510)642-0767 ext. 10
Tuesday, April 2 - Peter Patrikis Executive Director, The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning,
Yale University From One Consortium to Another 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, April 19 - Carl Blyth Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas,
Austin Representing Language Use for Foreign Language Learners: Contributions
of the Native, the Near-native and the Non-native 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, May 10 David Pettersen, David Wacks, Chantelle Warner BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Sponsored by the College of Letters
and Science and Title VI funds provided by the U.S. Department of Education
under the National Education Act to the eight National Resource centers at
U.C. Berkeley.
Friday, October 12 - Mark Turner Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Maryland Literacy and Cognition
370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, November 2- Gabriele Kasper Professor, Department of Second Language Studies,
University of Hawaii at Manoa Other-repair in Oral Proficiency Interviews: A Conversation-analytic Perspective 370 Dwinelle
3-5 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 7 - Amelia Barili, Lynne
Frame, Josephine Kelso, Sarah Roberts, Karina Sliwinski,BLC
Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects
370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Sponsored by the College of Letters and
Science and by the U.S. Department of Education under the National Education
Act to the eight National Resource Centers at U.C. Berkeley.
For Information call (510) 642-4067, extension
10 or e-mail
Spring 2001 Lecture Series
Friday, Feb 23 - Alastair Pennycook Professor of Language in Education, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Critical Applied Linguistics as Problematizing Practice
370 Dwinelle Hall
4-6 p.m.
Wednesday, March 21 - Martha C. Pennington Professor of English and Director of the Institute for English Language
and Literature,
University of Luton, England
Changing Relationships Between Context and Communication from Pre-Language
to Post Language 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Monday, April 9 - Catherine Doughty Associate Professor of Second Language Studies,
University of Hawaii at Manoa Effects of Instruction in Second Language Acquisition 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, May 4 - Lisa Little, Nelleke
van Deusen, Beth Samuelson, Kevin Wiliarty, Boris
Wolfson, BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects
370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored by
the College of Letters and Science and by International and Area Studies.
Fall 2000 Lecture Series
Friday, Sept. 15 - Judith Liskin-Gasparro Associate Professor and Director of the General Education Program, Department
of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Testing for Performance, Skill and Knowledge in a Foreign Language:
Finding the Balance 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-6 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 29 - Lothar Bredella Professor of English and Director of the Institute for English Language
and Literature,
Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany
Literary Texts in the Foreign Language Classroom 370 Dwinelle Hall (
3-5 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 27 - Merrill Swain, Professor
of Applied Linguistics, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning,The
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education , The University of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada Collaborative Dialogue and Second Language Learning 370 Dwinelle Hall )
3-5 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 17 - Stephen Krashen ,
Professor, Division of Learning and Instruction ,
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
CA
Comprehensible Input: Still a Good Idea 145 Dwinelle Hall
4-6 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 8 - Robert McFarland, Tiffani
Skogmo, Kevin Wiliarty,BLC Fellows
Instructional Development Research
370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Spring 2000
Friday, February 25 - Patricia Chaput Professor of Slavic Languages and Director of the Slavic Language Program,
Harvard University Tacit Assumptions: Walls that Separate the Imagined Communities
of Language and Literacy Studies 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8 - Joseph Lo Bianco Chief Executive, Language Australia: The National Languages and Literacy
Institute of Australia,The Australian National University
Planning Peace and Human Capital: Sri Lankan Language Policy 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m.
LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION,
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION:
ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES An Interdisciplinary Colloquium
March 17-19, 2000
Alumni House
Free and Open to the Public
PROGRAM:
Friday, March 17
PANEL 1: ECOLOGICAL MODELS OF LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION
1:00-1:30 Opening of the Colloquium and Introduction Claire Kramsch, Director, Berkeley Language
Center, UC Berkeley
1:30-2:15 Becoming A Speaker of Culture
Elinor Ochs, UCLA
2:15-3:00 Cross-cultural Learning and Other Catastrophes:
Ruptures as Windows on the Social World
Ron Scollon, Georgetown University
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:00
An Ecological-Semiotic Perspective on Language and Linguistics Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International
Studies
4:00-4:20 Commentaries by Juliette Wade & Briana Maley,
UC Berkeley
4:20-5:30 General Discussion
5:30-7:00 Open Reception
Saturday, March 18
PANEL 2: ECOLOGICAL MODELS OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
8:30-9:15 Modeling the Acquisition of Speech in a Multilingual
Society:
An Ecological Approach Jonathan Leather, University of Amsterdam
9:15-10:00 The Interconnection Between the Individual and the
Social
from a Chaos/Complexity Theory Perspective Diane Larsen-Freeman, School for International
Training,, Vermont
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:00 Learning Academic Language Identities:
Multiple Timescales in the Social Ecology of Scientific Education Jay L. Lemke, City University of New York
11:00:-11:20 Commentaries by Edward Bodine & Amy Weinberg,
UC Berkeley
11:20-12:30 General Discussion
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
Saturday, March 18
PANEL 3: LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL ACTION
2:00-2:45 An Activity Theoretical Perspective on Classroom Motivation James Lantolf, Penn State University
2:45-3:30 The Classroom and the Housing Estate: Researching Identities, Discourses and Membership
Among Teenage Youth in Hong Kong Christopher Candlin, City University
of Hong Kong
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-4:30 Discoursal (Mis)Alignments in Professional Gatekeeping
Encounters Srikant Sarangi, University of
Whales, Cardiff
4:30-4:50 Commentaries by Steven Thorne, Penn State
University
and Meg Gebhard, UC Berkeley
4:50-6:00 General Discussion
Sunday, March 19 PANEL 4: INSTRUCTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
8:30-9:15 Instructed Foreign Language Ritual In and Out of Class Ben Rampton, King's College,
London
9:15-10:00 The Case of Face: An Ecological Approach to Social
Normativity in the Language Classroom Jet van Dam, University of Amsterdam
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:00 Negotiating the Paradoxes in Fresh Talk in Advanced
L2 Classrooms Ann Bannink, University of Amsterdam
11:00-11:20 Commentaries by Greta Vollmer & Eva Lam,
UC Berkeley
Wednesday, April 5 - Sue Gass University Distinguished Professor, English Language Center, Michigan State
University Second Language Learners' Perception of Feedback: Is All Feedback
Created Equal? 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 9 - Spring BLC Fellows Sakae Fujita, Kathryn Klar, Sirpa Tuomainen, Juliette Wade Instructional Development Research
3:00-5:00 p.m.
370 Dwinelle Hall
Fall 1999 Lecture Series
Friday, September 24 - Nicolas Shumway Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish
American Literature, University of Texas at Austin Navigating the Academic Rapids: What I wish I Had Known Back When Men's Faculty Club (The Seaborg Room)
3:00-5:00 p.m. Abstract
Friday, October 22 - John Schumann Professor and Chair, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL, University
of California, Los Angeles A Neurobiological Perspective on Variable Success in Second Language
Acquisition Room 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m. Abstract
Wednesday, October 27 - Benjamin Rifkin,
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and Director of the Russian School at Middlebury College Error Gravity Research: Some Findings and a Critique
Room 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m. Abstract
Tuesday, November 9 - Dorothy Chun
Associate Professor of German , University of California at Santa Barbara Web-Based Language Instruction: Enhanced Multi-Media Learning Environment
or Cognitive Overload? 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Room 370 Dwinelle Hall Abstract
Friday, November 19 - David Corson Professor, Theory and Policy Studies and the Modern Language Centre, Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Critical Realism: An Emancipatory Social Philosophy for Studying
Language Diversity and Education 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Room 370 Dwinelle Hall Abstract
Monday, December 6 - Fall
BLC Fellows Mary Akatiff, Miles Becker, Daniela Fritz, Ellen
Langer Instructional Development Research
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Room 370 Dwinelle Hall
Spring 1999 Lecture Series
Tuesday, April 13- Diane Larsen Freeman Professor of Applied Linguistics, School for International Training,Brattleboro,
VT Chaos/Complexity Theory and Second Language Acquisition Research:
Transcending Differences Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall (G Level, Office
Wing)
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, April 9 -Heidi Byrnes Professor of German, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Content-Based Instruction and Adult Instructed L2 Acquisition: A Curricular
Perspective Location: Toll Room, Alumni House
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract Heidi Byrnes'
Web Page
Friday, March 19 -Jim Cummins Professor, Dept. of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto Putting Language Proficiency in Its Place: The Status of Academic
Language Proficiency in the Education of Bilingual Students Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, March 5 - Ron Scollon Professor of Sociolinguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Intercultural Communication: Problem, Solution, New Problem Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, Feb. 5 -Fred Genesee
Professor of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal Growing up Bilingual: Confusion or Competence Location: Toll Room, Alumni House
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Fall 1998 Lecture Series
Friday, Sept. 18 -Sandra McKay,
Professor of English and Applied Linguistics. San Francisco State University Writing for Publication Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, Oct. 16 - Diane Musumeci
Professor of Italian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign If Not Grammar, Then What? Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, November 13 - Dennis Preston
Professor of Linguistics, Michigan State University Folk Theories of Language Learning Location: Toll Room, Alumni House
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Spring 1998 Lecture Series
Friday, January 30, 1998 -James Lantoff Professor of Applied Linguistics, Cornell University Two Language Acquisition Theories; Krashen's i+1 and Vygotsky"s ZPD
Incommensurable Discourses; Incommensurable Theories Abstract
Tuesday, February 17, 1999 COLLOQUIUM:
Technology, Language and Literacy The purpose of this colloquium is to initiate a discussion on some of the
issues raised by the use of computer technology for the development of literacy,
be it in a first or in a second language. What kinds of formal and contextual
constraints does the medium impose on the creation of texts? What kind of textual
imagination is fostered by electronic technology? How does the medium redefine
cultural and historic authenticity, authorship, textual cohesion and coherence,
genre, voice? How does the use of digital technology affect traditional forms
of teaching and traditional academic structures?
Speakers:
Richard Lanham,ProfessorEmeritus
of English, UCLA; President, Rhetorica Inc. An Alphabet Which Thinks Abstract
Janet H. Murray, Senior Research
Scientist, MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Shape of Narrative in Digital Media Abstract
Respondents:
Richard Kern, Assistant Professor,
Department of French, UC Berkeley
Donald McQuade, Professor, Department
of English, UC Berkeley
Richard Sterling, Executive Director,
National Writing Project
Friday, March 13 1998 - Benjamin Rampton,
Professor of Applied Linguistic Research, Thames Valley University, London Learning and Using Other Languages: SLA or Language Crossing
Professor of Applied Linguistics, Centre for Applied Linguistic Research,Thames
Valley University, London Abstract
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored by
the College of Letters and Science and by International and Area Studies.
Tuesday, February 15 - Alastair Pennycook Acting Dean, Research and Development and Professor of Language in
Education
Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia The Perils of Language Ecology 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5-7 p.m.
Wednesday, March 16 - Dick Schmidt Professor, Department of Second Language Studies,
University of Hawai`i
Director, National Foreign Language Resource Center Fifty Probably True and Useful Findings from SLA 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Tuesday April 19 - Rick Kern
Assoiate Professor, Director, French Language Program
University of California, Berkeley Linguistic and Cultural Identity in Study Abroad 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4 - Nick Ellis Professor of Psychology
Research Scientist, English Language Institute
University of Michigan At the interface: Dynamic Interactions of Explicit and Implicit Language
Knowledge 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Friday, May 13 - BLC Fellows
Anna Livia Brawn
Techniques of Translation
Jeremy Ecke
Grammatical Estrangement
Robert T. Schechtman "Was fur Gemeinschaft?": A Critical Examination of
'community' in German Language Instruction
Natasha Azarian
An Ethnographic Study of a Multigenerational Ethnic Community:
The Armenians of Fresno, Ecological Implications for the Teaching of Less Commonly
Taught Languages 370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Fall 2004 Lecture Series
Friday, September 24 - Leslie Moore
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Informal Learning and Schools, UCSC Insights into SLA from Less Familiar Settings
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, October 15 - Patricia Duff
Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education,
University of British Columbia
Heteroglossia in Foreign Language Classrooms: Research, Debates, and Issues 370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, November 5 - Panel Discussion Gesture in Mediational Practice: Embodied Cognition and Semiotic
Acts in Language Teaching Irene Mittelberg
Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics, Linguistics Department, Cornell University Eve Sweetser
Professor, Linguistics Department, UC Berkeley
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, December 10 - BLC Fellows Ellen Rosenfield (Lecturer, GSI Teaching & Resource
Center), Lihua Zhang (Lecturer, East Asian Languages and
Cultures), Mark Nelson (GSR, Education), Victoria Somoff (GSR, Slavic Languages and Literatures) Renee Perelmutter (GSR, Slavic Languages and Literatures)
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Spring 2004 Lecture Series
Friday, February 6 Panel Discussion: The Role of Translation in Language
Study
Anna Livia Brawn (French) French Department Naturalization or Estrangement: Options in Translation
Susan Kepner (Thai) South and Southeast Asian Studies Department Teaching Language Students to Translate Literature
Ibrahim Muhawi
(Arabic) Near Eastern Studies Issues in Folkloristic Translation
Kay Richards (Korean) East Asian Languages and Cultures Department Translation: Transliteration to Biliteracy
Bac Tran (Vietnamese) South and Southeast Asian Studies Department Enhancement of Sensitivity to Language through Translation: Something Gained
Moderator: Winfried Kudszus German Department
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Thursday, February 19 - Lourdes Ortega
Assistant Professor , English Department, Northern Arizona University The Ethical as Transformative Lens in Instructed SLA Research
370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 pm. Abstract
Thursday, March 18 - Mary Pratt
Silver Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature,
New York University Towards an Ecology of Language
370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Tuesday, April 20 - Gunther Kress
Professor, Institute of Education, University of London Designing and Reading Multimodal Texts: Modes, Media, Knowledge and Meaning
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, May 14 BLC Fellows' Presentation
Sarah Bailey, David Gramling, Stephanie Hom-Cary
Instructional Development Research Projects
370 Dwinelle, 3-5 p.m.
A reception follows each lecture.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored
by the College of Letters and
Science and by Berkeley's eight National Resource Centers under
a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Fall 2003 Lecture Series
Monday, September 29 -Shirley Brice
Heath Professor Emerita, Department of English and Dramatic Literature,
and
of Linguistics, Stanford University What is Language as Knowledge? 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Friday, October 31- Leanne Hinton Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley Teaching Endangered Languages
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, November 14 - Kirk Belnap
Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages, Brigham
Young University
and
Guadalupe Valdes
Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Stanford University
Moderator: Claire Kramsch
Heritage Language Teaching, Foreign Language Teaching: What one can
Learn from the Other 370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Friday, December 5 BLC Fellows' Presentation
Polina Barskova, Sargam Shah, Rakhel Villamil-Acera, Clare You 370 Dwinelle, 3-5 p.m.
Spring 2003 Lecture Series
Friday, February 7 - Fred Genesee Professor of Psychology, McGill University Portrait of the Bilingual Child 370 Dwinelle Hall
4-6 p.m. Abstract
Friday, February 21 - Aneta Pavlenko College of Education, Temple University Bilingualism, Emotions, and Cognition
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Monday, March 10 - Dan I. Slobin
Professor, Dept. of Psychology, UC Berkeley How People Talk about Motion Events: Some Cognitive and Communicative
Consequences of Linguistic Typology
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3 -5 p.m.
Friday, April 4, 1-5 p.m.
Saturday, April 5, 8-5 p.m.
Language, Identity and Change in
the Modern World: Implications for the Study of Language and Culture
Speakers: Clive Holes, Oxford University (Keynote Speaker) Social History, Political History, and Dialect Prestige in
the Arab World: The Cases of Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq
Ibrahim Muhawi, Edinburgh University Negotiating Palestinian Diaspora: Translation and the Language
of Exile
Mahmoud Al-Batal, Emory University Identity and Language Tension in Lebanon: The Arabic of Local
News on LBC Television
Loukia Sarroub, University of Nebraska The Literacy Practices of Yemeni and Iraqi Youth: Life In
and Out of School in Dearborn, Michigan and Lincoln, Nebraska
Mushira Eid, University of Nebraska Language, and Gender and Egyptian Cinema
John Hayes, UC Berkeley Arabic and Evolving National Identities in the Middle East
Sonia Shiri, UC Berkeley Tunisian Arabic Speakers on the Periphery of Arab Identity?:
Native Speakers and Learners' Linguistic Attitudes
Ella Shohat, New York University Reflections of an Arab Jew
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities,
220 Stephens Hall
Monday, April 14 - Tim McNamara
Professor, Dept. of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne Title: TBA
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3 -5 p.m.
Friday, May 9
BLC Fellows-Spring 2003 Martin Lowry, Luh Hsyng Nelson, Michael Chad Wellmon Instructional Development Research Projects
370 Dwinelle Hall, 3-5 p.m.
Monday - Friday, June 23-27 Professional Development Workshop: Discourse and Culture in Language
Study
Speakers: Robin Lakoff, UC Berkeley Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University Anthony Liddicoat, Australia
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall
A reception follows each lecture.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored
by the College of Letters and
Science and by Berkeley's eight National Resource Centers under
a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Friday, September 13 - Guadalupe Valdes Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Stanford University Teaching the Commonly Taught Languages as Heritage Languages:
Questions and Continuing Dilemmas
370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
NOV. 4th EVENT CANCELED:
Monday, November 4 -Theo van Leeuwen Professor, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University Image Banks and the Semantics of Contemporary Visual Communication 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, November 15 - Ellen W. Crocker Senior Lecturer in German
Foreign Languages and Literatures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kurt E. Fendt, Research Associate in Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Participatory Narratives: Community, Identity, and the Teaching
of Culture Abstract http://web.mit.edu/ffl/www/projects/BerlinerSehen.html http://metamedia.mit.edu
33 Dwinelle
3-5 p.m.
Friday, December 6 - Paige Daniel, Agnes
Dimitriou, William Short,
Kristen Templeman, Michael Chad Wellmon BLC Fellows - Fall 2002 Instructional Development Research Projects 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
A reception follows each lecture.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored
by the College of Letters and
Science and by Berkeley's eight National Resource Centers under
a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Spring 2002 Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 12 - Norman Fairclough Professor of Language in Social Life, Lancaster University, UK Critical Discourse Analysis in Social Research 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEW
COLLOQUIUM
Sessions include an introduction to
the Oral Proficiency Interview, including demonstrations of sample interviews
in several languages, and a discussion of its merits and implications for
the curriculum.
Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February
23
370 Dwinelle Hall
Free and Open to the Public
PROGRAM:
Friday, Feb 22
OPENING REMARKS. 1:00-1:15 p.m. Claire Kramsch, Director, Berkeley Language Center, UC Berkeley
SESSION 1 1:15-3:00 General Introduction to the Oral Proficiency Interview
Chantal Thompson, Brigham Young University
SESSION 2 3:30-5:30 p.m. OPI Sample Interviews French - Jean Schultz 33 Dwinelle Spanish - Agnes Dimitriou 370 Dwinelle Italian - Armando Di Carlo 34 Dwinelle Russian - Ben Rifkin B-4 Dwinelle English - Chantal Thompson 371 Dwinelle
Saturday, February 23
SESSION 1 8:30-9:30 a.m. Ray Clifford, Defense Language Institute Proficiency/Performance/Achievement Testing
SESSION 2 10:00-11:00 a.m. Rafael Salaberry, Rice University OPI and Policy Questions at the Department, University and Government Level
SESSION 3 11:00-12:00 p.m.
June Phillips, Weber State University The Relationship of the OPI and Foreign Language Standards
Lunch Break 12:00
SESSION 4 1:30-2:30 p.m. Ben Rifkin, University of Wisconsin OPI and the Curriculum
SESSION 5
2:30-3:30 p.m. Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies Limitations of the OPI
DISCUSSION
3:30-4:30 p.m.
CLOSING RECEPTION
4:30-5:30 p.m.
For further information contact:
Berkeley Language Center,
(510)642-0767 ext. 10
Tuesday, April 2 - Peter Patrikis Executive Director, The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning,
Yale University From One Consortium to Another 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, April 19 - Carl Blyth Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas,
Austin Representing Language Use for Foreign Language Learners: Contributions
of the Native, the Near-native and the Non-native 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, May 10 David Pettersen, David Wacks, Chantelle Warner BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Sponsored by the College of Letters
and Science and Title VI funds provided by the U.S. Department of Education
under the National Education Act to the eight National Resource centers at
U.C. Berkeley.
Friday, October 12 - Mark Turner Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Maryland Literacy and Cognition
370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, November 2- Gabriele Kasper Professor, Department of Second Language Studies,
University of Hawaii at Manoa Other-repair in Oral Proficiency Interviews: A Conversation-analytic Perspective 370 Dwinelle
3-5 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 7 - Amelia Barili, Lynne
Frame, Josephine Kelso, Sarah Roberts, Karina Sliwinski,BLC
Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects
370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Sponsored by the College of Letters and
Science and by the U.S. Department of Education under the National Education
Act to the eight National Resource Centers at U.C. Berkeley.
For Information call (510) 642-4067, extension
10 or e-mail
Spring 2001 Lecture Series
Friday, Feb 23 - Alastair Pennycook Professor of Language in Education, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Critical Applied Linguistics as Problematizing Practice
370 Dwinelle Hall
4-6 p.m.
Wednesday, March 21 - Martha C. Pennington Professor of English and Director of the Institute for English Language
and Literature,
University of Luton, England
Changing Relationships Between Context and Communication from Pre-Language
to Post Language 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Monday, April 9 - Catherine Doughty Associate Professor of Second Language Studies,
University of Hawaii at Manoa Effects of Instruction in Second Language Acquisition 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
Friday, May 4 - Lisa Little, Nelleke
van Deusen, Beth Samuelson, Kevin Wiliarty, Boris
Wolfson, BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects
370 Dwinelle Hall
3-5 p.m.
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored by
the College of Letters and Science and by International and Area Studies.
Fall 2000 Lecture Series
Friday, Sept. 15 - Judith Liskin-Gasparro Associate Professor and Director of the General Education Program, Department
of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Testing for Performance, Skill and Knowledge in a Foreign Language:
Finding the Balance 370 Dwinelle Hall
3-6 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 29 - Lothar Bredella Professor of English and Director of the Institute for English Language
and Literature,
Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany
Literary Texts in the Foreign Language Classroom 370 Dwinelle Hall (
3-5 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 27 - Merrill Swain, Professor
of Applied Linguistics, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning,The
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education , The University of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada Collaborative Dialogue and Second Language Learning 370 Dwinelle Hall )
3-5 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 17 - Stephen Krashen ,
Professor, Division of Learning and Instruction ,
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
CA
Comprehensible Input: Still a Good Idea 145 Dwinelle Hall
4-6 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 8 - Robert McFarland, Tiffani
Skogmo, Kevin Wiliarty,BLC Fellows
Instructional Development Research
370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Spring 2000
Friday, February 25 - Patricia Chaput Professor of Slavic Languages and Director of the Slavic Language Program,
Harvard University Tacit Assumptions: Walls that Separate the Imagined Communities
of Language and Literacy Studies 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8 - Joseph Lo Bianco Chief Executive, Language Australia: The National Languages and Literacy
Institute of Australia,The Australian National University
Planning Peace and Human Capital: Sri Lankan Language Policy 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m.
LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION,
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION:
ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES An Interdisciplinary Colloquium
March 17-19, 2000
Alumni House
Free and Open to the Public
PROGRAM:
Friday, March 17
PANEL 1: ECOLOGICAL MODELS OF LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION
1:00-1:30 Opening of the Colloquium and Introduction Claire Kramsch, Director, Berkeley Language
Center, UC Berkeley
1:30-2:15 Becoming A Speaker of Culture
Elinor Ochs, UCLA
2:15-3:00 Cross-cultural Learning and Other Catastrophes:
Ruptures as Windows on the Social World
Ron Scollon, Georgetown University
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:00
An Ecological-Semiotic Perspective on Language and Linguistics Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International
Studies
4:00-4:20 Commentaries by Juliette Wade & Briana Maley,
UC Berkeley
4:20-5:30 General Discussion
5:30-7:00 Open Reception
Saturday, March 18
PANEL 2: ECOLOGICAL MODELS OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
8:30-9:15 Modeling the Acquisition of Speech in a Multilingual
Society:
An Ecological Approach Jonathan Leather, University of Amsterdam
9:15-10:00 The Interconnection Between the Individual and the
Social
from a Chaos/Complexity Theory Perspective Diane Larsen-Freeman, School for International
Training,, Vermont
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:00 Learning Academic Language Identities:
Multiple Timescales in the Social Ecology of Scientific Education Jay L. Lemke, City University of New York
11:00:-11:20 Commentaries by Edward Bodine & Amy Weinberg,
UC Berkeley
11:20-12:30 General Discussion
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
Saturday, March 18
PANEL 3: LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL ACTION
2:00-2:45 An Activity Theoretical Perspective on Classroom Motivation James Lantolf, Penn State University
2:45-3:30 The Classroom and the Housing Estate: Researching Identities, Discourses and Membership
Among Teenage Youth in Hong Kong Christopher Candlin, City University
of Hong Kong
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-4:30 Discoursal (Mis)Alignments in Professional Gatekeeping
Encounters Srikant Sarangi, University of
Whales, Cardiff
4:30-4:50 Commentaries by Steven Thorne, Penn State
University
and Meg Gebhard, UC Berkeley
4:50-6:00 General Discussion
Sunday, March 19 PANEL 4: INSTRUCTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
8:30-9:15 Instructed Foreign Language Ritual In and Out of Class Ben Rampton, King's College,
London
9:15-10:00 The Case of Face: An Ecological Approach to Social
Normativity in the Language Classroom Jet van Dam, University of Amsterdam
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:00 Negotiating the Paradoxes in Fresh Talk in Advanced
L2 Classrooms Ann Bannink, University of Amsterdam
11:00-11:20 Commentaries by Greta Vollmer & Eva Lam,
UC Berkeley
Wednesday, April 5 - Sue Gass University Distinguished Professor, English Language Center, Michigan State
University Second Language Learners' Perception of Feedback: Is All Feedback
Created Equal? 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 9 - Spring BLC Fellows Sakae Fujita, Kathryn Klar, Sirpa Tuomainen, Juliette Wade Instructional Development Research
3:00-5:00 p.m.
370 Dwinelle Hall
Fall 1999 Lecture Series
Friday, September 24 - Nicolas Shumway Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish
American Literature, University of Texas at Austin Navigating the Academic Rapids: What I wish I Had Known Back When Men's Faculty Club (The Seaborg Room)
3:00-5:00 p.m. Abstract
Friday, October 22 - John Schumann Professor and Chair, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL, University
of California, Los Angeles A Neurobiological Perspective on Variable Success in Second Language
Acquisition Room 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m. Abstract
Wednesday, October 27 - Benjamin Rifkin,
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and Director of the Russian School at Middlebury College Error Gravity Research: Some Findings and a Critique
Room 370 Dwinelle Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m. Abstract
Tuesday, November 9 - Dorothy Chun
Associate Professor of German , University of California at Santa Barbara Web-Based Language Instruction: Enhanced Multi-Media Learning Environment
or Cognitive Overload? 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Room 370 Dwinelle Hall Abstract
Friday, November 19 - David Corson Professor, Theory and Policy Studies and the Modern Language Centre, Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Critical Realism: An Emancipatory Social Philosophy for Studying
Language Diversity and Education 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Room 370 Dwinelle Hall Abstract
Monday, December 6 - Fall
BLC Fellows Mary Akatiff, Miles Becker, Daniela Fritz, Ellen
Langer Instructional Development Research
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Room 370 Dwinelle Hall
Spring 1999 Lecture Series
Tuesday, April 13- Diane Larsen Freeman Professor of Applied Linguistics, School for International Training,Brattleboro,
VT Chaos/Complexity Theory and Second Language Acquisition Research:
Transcending Differences Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall (G Level, Office
Wing)
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, April 9 -Heidi Byrnes Professor of German, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Content-Based Instruction and Adult Instructed L2 Acquisition: A Curricular
Perspective Location: Toll Room, Alumni House
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract Heidi Byrnes'
Web Page
Friday, March 19 -Jim Cummins Professor, Dept. of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto Putting Language Proficiency in Its Place: The Status of Academic
Language Proficiency in the Education of Bilingual Students Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, March 5 - Ron Scollon Professor of Sociolinguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Intercultural Communication: Problem, Solution, New Problem Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, Feb. 5 -Fred Genesee
Professor of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal Growing up Bilingual: Confusion or Competence Location: Toll Room, Alumni House
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Fall 1998 Lecture Series
Friday, Sept. 18 -Sandra McKay,
Professor of English and Applied Linguistics. San Francisco State University Writing for Publication Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, Oct. 16 - Diane Musumeci
Professor of Italian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign If Not Grammar, Then What? Location: Conference Room, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Friday, November 13 - Dennis Preston
Professor of Linguistics, Michigan State University Folk Theories of Language Learning Location: Toll Room, Alumni House
Time: 3-5 p.m. Abstract
Spring 1998 Lecture Series
Friday, January 30, 1998 -James Lantoff Professor of Applied Linguistics, Cornell University Two Language Acquisition Theories; Krashen's i+1 and Vygotsky"s ZPD
Incommensurable Discourses; Incommensurable Theories Abstract
Tuesday, February 17, 1999 COLLOQUIUM:
Technology, Language and Literacy The purpose of this colloquium is to initiate a discussion on some of the
issues raised by the use of computer technology for the development of literacy,
be it in a first or in a second language. What kinds of formal and contextual
constraints does the medium impose on the creation of texts? What kind of textual
imagination is fostered by electronic technology? How does the medium redefine
cultural and historic authenticity, authorship, textual cohesion and coherence,
genre, voice? How does the use of digital technology affect traditional forms
of teaching and traditional academic structures?
Speakers:
Richard Lanham,ProfessorEmeritus
of English, UCLA; President, Rhetorica Inc. An Alphabet Which Thinks Abstract
Janet H. Murray, Senior Research
Scientist, MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Shape of Narrative in Digital Media Abstract
Respondents:
Richard Kern, Assistant Professor,
Department of French, UC Berkeley
Donald McQuade, Professor, Department
of English, UC Berkeley
Richard Sterling, Executive Director,
National Writing Project
Friday, March 13 1998 - Benjamin Rampton,
Professor of Applied Linguistic Research, Thames Valley University, London Learning and Using Other Languages: SLA or Language Crossing
Professor of Applied Linguistics, Centre for Applied Linguistic Research,Thames
Valley University, London Abstract
The BLC Lecture Series is sponsored by
the College of Letters and Science and by International and Area Studies.
