Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Victoria Williams on August 3, 2016
Teachers of World Languages, including teachers of English Learners and Heritage Languages, are invited to participate in the professional learning programs, Foundations of Effective Language Teaching 1, 2, or 3. The program will be offered on six Saturdays: September 24, October 22, December 3, 2016; and February 4, March 11, and April 29, 2017. All…
Posted by Victoria Williams on December 9, 2015
Thanks to the generous support by the Berkeley Language Center, I participated in the 20th American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK) Annual Workshop and Conference, which was held in Monterey, CA, June 25-27, 2015. As the largest conference for the teaching of Korean in the U.S., the AATK plays a significant role in Korean…
Posted by Victoria Williams on December 9, 2015
October 9-11, 2015 Denver, Colorado The seminar is a yearly event that usually takes place in Denver, Colorado. This year I was particularly interested in attending it, since its topic, Technology in the Hebrew classroom, was something that I felt I could benefit from. As it turned out, it was a very useful conference, since…
Posted by Victoria Williams on October 7, 2015
On Friday, September 18, and Saturday, September 19, the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL), of which I am currently president, held a professional development workshop in facilities (Dwinelle B-3 and B-4) graciously provided by the BLC. Professional development is difficult to come by indeed for many Southeast Asian language instructors in the…
Posted by Victoria Williams on August 25, 2015
Teachers of World Languages, including teachers of English Learners and Heritage Languages, are invited to participate in the professional learning programs, Foundations of Effective Language Teaching 1, 2, or 3. The program will be offered on five Saturdays: September 26, October 24, December 5, 2015; and January 30, February 27, 2016. (An extra session is…
Posted by Victoria Williams on August 30, 2014
Teachers of World Languages, including teachers of English Learners and Heritage Languages, are invited to participate in the professional learning programs, Foundations of Effective Language Teaching I, 2, or 3. The program will be offered on five Saturdays: September 27, October 25, December 6, January 31, 2014, and February 28, 2015, from 8:00 am to…
Results in L2 Journal Articles
Liu, Haiqin; Dervin, Fred
Volume 08 Issue 4
With the current rise of China as a political, cultural, and economic superpower, Chinese as a foreign and second language has gained popularity worldwide. Finland is also responding to this global wave, as is reflected by the increasing number of Chinese courses in formal and informal settings in the Nordic country. Yet not all actors involved in the promotion of Chinese seem to experience instruction in the language in the same way. This study investigates how Chinese teachers of the Chinese language, who represent the majority of the ‘workforce’ for instruction in this language in Finland, perceive Chinese language education and their role in it...
Crane, Cori
Volume 07 Issue 2
The foreign language (FL) teaching “methods” course—which serves an increasingly diverse population of graduate students with varied teaching and learning experiences, professional goals, and developmental trajectories (Allen & Negueruela-Azarola, 2010)— is often the only dedicated space for graduate student instructors (GSIs) to develop integrated theoretical and practical knowledge about collegiate language learning and teaching (Bourns & Melin, 2014). This article ...
Hlas, Anne & Susan Hildebrandt
Volume 02 Issue 1
Second language teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is a sophisticated combination of pedagogical and content knowledge. This study explores the acquisition and articulation of PCK, highlighting ...
Ellis, Rod
Volume 01 Issue 1
This article examines a number of controversies relating to how corrective feedback (CF) has been
viewed in SLA and language pedagogy. These controversies address ...