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Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 18, 2012
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…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on November 1, 2011
The special issue of L2 Journal, “Teaching Language, Culture, and Text with Film” is now available here. Contents: “Teaching Japanese Pragmatic Competence Using Film Clips” by Wakae Kambara. “The Five C’s: Bringing a 1980’s Film into the 21st Century Chinese Language Learning Context” by Gloria Bien. “Rebels with a Cause: (Re)defining Identities and Culture in…
Posted by Victoria Williams on September 15, 2011
In spring 2009, a 25-minute documentary, Il corpo delle donne (The Body of Women), composed of images selected from 400 hours of television programs, exerted an unexpected impact on an Italian public which over the years had become uncomplainingly accustomed to seeing women made objects of the most explicit forms of degradation, humiliation, and misogyny.…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on September 15, 2011
In all 1st- through 3rd-year Japanese courses at UC Berkeley, students are expected to write several skits over the course of the semester. Each skit is submitted to the instructor for corrections, after which students perform the skit in class. Students appear to enjoy these oral quizzes. While checking 3rd-year Japanese students’ scripts, I have…
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 15, 2011
Telugu belongs to the Dravidian language family and is the second most spoken language in India with more than 80 million speakers. Telugu is mainly spoken in and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It was given classical language status by the Government of India in 2008 because of…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on July 30, 2010
The mainstream media’s coverage of the announcement this week by the Librarian of Congress on new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (see the press release here), focused on the impact on jail breaking smart phones, but scant attention was paid to the exemption on circumvention of copying of DVDs. The latter ruling…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on June 21, 2010
The Library of Foreign Language Film Clips continues to grow in number of films, number of clips, and number of features. This spring we added our 41st language with the purchase of three films in Armenian. Currently our collection stands at 942 films, with Japanese, Russian, French, Spanish and Chinese accounting for 50% of the…
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 15, 2010
Many studies show that film or “video has vast potential for enriching language study and making it more enjoyable and effective” (Wood 1992). My fall 2009 BLC Fellow’s project is a demonstration of how film can complement other materials used in class (especially the textbook) by tapping this resource. It involved cutting and preparing Zulu…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on June 18, 2009
Teaching Language and Culture with Film Marilyn Fabe, The Language of Film Mark Kaiser, Teaching with Film Clips Anne-Christine Rice, Implementing a Curriculum Built Around Film Sabine Levet, Cross-Cultural Comparison through Film Rick Kern, Making Connections between Film and Literacy Thomas J. Garza, Film as (Con)Text: Using Visual Media in Russian Language and Culture…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 30, 2009
Introducing the Library of Foreign Language Film Clips: Modeling Language and Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom by Mark Kaiser, Associate Director, Berkeley Language Center, University of California, Berkeley This workshop will begin with a roll out of the LFLFC website and a demonstration of its functionality, using examples from Russian, Japanese, French, and Spanish.…