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Fall Fellows Forum, December 1, 2023

Fall 2023 BLC Fellows ForumInstructional Development Research Projects Learning the Language of the Contemporary Ukrainian Society through FilmsNataliia Goshylyk, Lecturer, Slavic Languages & LiteraturesThis project presents ways to integrate contemporary Ukrainian films into the curriculum for intermediate language learners. Seven lesson plans for films of various genres and lengths will help the students expand their…

Talk by Janice McGregor, November 3, 2023

Toward Justice in Study Abroad, Intercultural Learning, and Language Education Study abroad (SA) is a fixture in post-secondary language education in the United States. In this talk, I introduce two different–yet entwined–facets of SA and language learning that can cause harm. The first is the common ideological construction of SA as “L2-land”, or the primary…

Workshop by Dr. Joel Walsh, October 13, 2023

Creating Instructional Materials to Develop AI Literacies Dr. Joel Walsh, Dr. Emily Hellmich, Dr. Kimberly Vinall In this workshop, participants will apply concepts from Thursday’s talk by Dr. Walsh (Responding to the “Arrival”: Essential Background Information and Strategies for Language Instructors in the Age of Human-Like Language Technologies (Machine Translation and Large Language Models)) to…

Talk by Dr. Joel Walsh, October 12, 2023

Responding to the “Arrival”: Essential Background Information and Strategies for Language Instructors in the Age of Human-Like Language Technologies (Machine Translation and Large Language Models) Machine translation (MT) systems were once clunky and error-prone but have improved greatly in the last decade. Within the last two years, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have achieved…

Summer Film Fellows, September 15, 2023

ROUNDTABLE: Film in the Language/Culture Curriculum Mark Kaiser - BLC Associate Director EmeritusMaya Sidhu - Continuing Lecturer, French Department Speakers:Ambika Athreya (German), Myrna Douzjian (Armenian), Nathalie Khankan (Arabic), David Kyeu (Swahili), Natalya Nielsen (Swedish), Oksana Willis (Russian) Led by Mark Kaiser (BLC Associate Director Emeritus) and Maya Sidhu (Continuing Lecturer, French Department), the six speakers…

BLC Fall 2023 Event Series

Roundtable:Film in the Language/Culture Curriculum Mark Kaiser – Retired BLC Associate DirectorMaya Sidhu – Continuing Lecturer, French Department Speakers:Ambika Athreya (German)Myrna Douzjian (Armenian)Nathalie Khankan (Arabic)David Kyeu (Swahili)Natalya Nielsen (Swedish)Oksana Willis (Russian) Friday, September 15, 3-5pm, B-4 Dwinelle & Zoom Talk:Responding to the “Arrival”: Essential Background Information and Strategies for Language Instructors in the Age of…

Talk by Avineri & Baquedano-López , April 7, 2023

Netta Avineri – Associate Professor, Language Teacher Education & Intercultural Communication, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Patricia Baquedano-López – Associate Professor, Berkeley School of Education 'Applied Linguistic Anthropology' in Action: Language & Social Justice Projects and Praxis Over the past 15 years in the U.S. we have seen an exciting and promising concerted…

Talk by Alastair Pennycook

With a Special Introduction by Claire Kramsch - Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley Alastair Pennycook - Emeritus Professor of Language, Society, and Education, University of Technology Sydney Language as Assemblage A focus on language(s) as assemblage reconfigures what counts as language and how social, spatial and material worlds interact. An understanding of assemblages as entangled groupings…

BLC Spring 2023 Lecture Series

Workshop: Filmic LanguageThe Grammar of Film: A Primer for World Language Teachers Mark Kaiser – Retired BLC Associate DirectorMaya Sidhu – Continuing Lecturer, French Department Monday, January 30, 3-5pm, B-4 Dwinelle Mixed-Heritage Individuals: Rewriting Narratives of Racial, Linguistic and Cultural Deficiency Aurora Tsai, Project Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communication Strategies, University of Tokyo Wednesday,…

Talk by Jonathan Rosa, October 21, 2022

Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics Conceptualizations of competence, which permeate applied linguistics, systematically fail to account for the role of racialization in language learning. Building on collaborative work with Nelson Flores to conceptualize the framework of raciolinguistic ideologies as a project of undoing appropriateness, this presentation seeks to…

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