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Lectures by BLC Fellows (J. Caballero, E. Langer, M. Purpura), November 30, 2012

Fall 2012 BLC Fellows’ Instructional Development Research Projects   Using Film to Teach Cultural Analysis Skills in L2: A Pragmatic Guide Juan Caballero, GSR, Comparative Literature This presentation describes a semester-length sequence of lessons structured around closely-watched film clips for fourth-semester Spanish.  Based on the implementation of these lessons this semester, and of an analogous…

Lecture by Lourdes Ortega, November 16, 2012: Lourdes Ortega

Language Teaching and SLA: Understanding the Limits and Possibilities of the Research-teaching Interface by Lourdes Ortega, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University Language teachers often feel unsure of the value of second language acquisition (SLA) research, wondering if studies about language teaching are relevant and realistic enough to give them insights that can inform and improve…

Panel Discussion on Exploring Service Learning in Foreign Language Teaching (V. Robinson, S. Akin, J. Hellebrandt, A. Barili, S. Watanabe), October 12, 2012

Panel Discussion: Exploring Service Learning in Foreign Language Teaching Introduction Victoria Robinson, Suzan Akin, UC Berkeley Download Cal Corps handout as PDF Victoria Robinson on Engaged Scholarship, https://vimeo.com/46095742 Service-Learning in German:  A win-win for students and community participants Josef Hellebrandt, Professor in Modern Languages, Santa Clara University, South Bay Deutscher Schulverein Efforts to engage German…

Lecture by David Malinowski, September 14, 2012

Where is the language classroom today?: Reconsidering the place/s of language learning with technology by David Malinowski, Berkeley Language Center, University of California, Berkeley Labeled increasingly as “traditional” or “brick-and-mortar”, the physical university classroom has been criticized for fostering a teacher-centered, top-down, and formulaic model of education, whose resistance to innovation is symbolized by the…

Lecture by H. Douglas Brown, April 6, 2012

Teaching as a Subversive Activity—Revisited by H. Douglas Brown, Professor Emeritus of English, San Francisco State University For virtually every language teacher, some of the primary driving motives for teaching language are rooted in our desire to be “agents for change” in this world, our desire to help people to communicate across national, political, and…

Lecture by Gunther Kress, April 20, 2004

Designing and Reading Multimodal Texts: Modes, Media, Knowledge and Meaning by Gunther Kress, Professor, Institute of Education, University of London The increasing intensity of multimodality in texts of all kinds is forcing us to look newly and more seriously at modes other than those of speech and writing, in an attempt to understand their contribution…

Lecture by Mairi McLaughlin, March 2, 2012

The Place of Translation in Higher Education by Mairi McLaughlin, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley The Observer’s Robert McCrum declared 2011 a “boom year” for translation. It saw the anniversary of the King James’ Bible, the flourishing of literature in translation (Stieg Larsson, Haruki Murakami) and a new English version of the Roman…

Lectures by BLC Fellows (K. Dickinson, A. Mendelson, J. Park), May 8, 2009

Spring 2009 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects   Literacy in First-Year Turkish: A Multi-Voiced Approach Kristin Dickinson, GSR, Comparative Literature Extending a BLC project for Turkish 1A in the fall, this semester I have worked to integrate a literacy-based approach into second-semester Turkish (1B). Activities I have designed allow students to approach canonical and…

Lecture by Stanton Wortham, April 8, 2009

  Hillbilly Spanish and Tarzan English:  Ideologies of Mexican Immigrant Language by Stanton Wortham, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania In this paper, written with Elaine Allard and Katherine Mortimer, we conceptualize the beliefs and attitudes of Mexican immigrants and long-time residents of the Mid Atlantic suburban town of Marshall as language ideologies, culturally-situated…

Lecture by James Coleman, March 19, 2009

New Perspectives on Study Abroad Research: Goals, Variables, and Methods by James Coleman, Language Learning and Teaching at,The Open University, UK The learning outcomes of study abroad are not only linguistic, but also academic, cultural, intercultural, personal and professional.  Nor are study abroad contexts as uniform as they are often assumed to be:  every context…

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