Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Orlando Garcia on 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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 16, 2012
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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on October 13, 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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on 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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 7, 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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 22, 2012
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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 3, 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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on 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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on 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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on 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…