Claire Fest 2015
Please join us for a day-long conference celebrating Claire Kramsch’s research in applied linguistics, contributions to language and culture teaching, and service to the community of language educators. This event, marking her retirement from Berkeley, will offer participants an opportunity to share personal and intellectual reflections on Claire’s influence.
PROGRAM
9:00 – 9:30AM
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Rick Kern and Catherine Chvany
9:30 – 10:45AM
PANEL 1: TECHNOLOGY AND LANGUAGE LEARNING
Developing language teachers’ symbolic competence through an online exchange: Dorothy Chun
Whose game are we playing?: Foreign language literacy as play: Chantelle Warner
The ecology of L2 development in quotidian mobile technology contexts: Steve Thorne
11:00 – 12:15PM
PANEL 2: THE MULTILINGUAL SUBJECT
What it means to (be)come American: An analysis of the English writing test for naturalization applicants: Michelle Baptiste
Communicative language teaching and language under duress: Global contexts for language pedagogy: Glenn Levine, Alison Phipps
The multilingual as multimodal: Jennifer Johnson
1:45 – 3:00PM
PANEL 3: HISTORY AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
“Leave behind the naïve paradise…”: Multilingual historical bodies of the non-native speaker: Robert Train
Language, power, and the development of disciplinary textual practices: Meg Gebhard
Heritage learning in a distance environment: Creating a community of practice: Nelleke Van Deusen
3:15PM – 4:30PM
PANEL 4: FROM THE BLC TO THE UC AND BEYOND: CLAIRE’S ENDURING IMPACT
Linda von Hoene, Robert Blake, Kimberly Vinall, Karen Møller, Mark Kaiser, David Malinowski, Chika Shibahara, Niko Euba, Rick Kern
4:30PM – 5:30PM
PUBLIC TESTIMONIALS
Friday, April 17, 9-5 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall
Sponsored by the Berkeley Language Center (BLC), De Gruyter Mouton, Department of German, and Graduate School of Education.
For questions or comments please send e-mails to: clairevoyants15@gmail.com