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Congratulations Daniel Hoffmann!

Daniel Hoffmann (Department of French) has been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA), the most prestigious honor for teaching on the Berkeley campus! The DTA ceremony will be held on Wednesday, April 26 from 5-7 p.m. in the Pauley Ballroom (in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union). Please mark your calendar and plan to come to this…

French for Professions, April 20, 2023

PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN FRENCH IN THEBAY AREA AND BEYOND (3-4 PM) A ROUNDTABLE IN ENGLISH WITH THE FRENCH CONSULATE OF SAN FRANCISCO, THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE BERKELEY, UC BERKELEY FRENCH DEPARTMENT AND STUDY ABROAD COMMENT LE CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQ_UE EST-IL ENTRAIN DE TRANSFORMER LA FRANCE? Q_UELSIMPACTS SUR LA POLITIQ_UE DE L'EAU? (4-5 PM) CONFERENCE EN FRANCAIS…

French Department Receives Grant to Develop Professional Pathways

The French Department is happy to announce that it has received a grant from the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation to develop professional pathways for learners of French at UC Berkeley. The 2023-2025 project’s aim is to help students learn a foreign language while gaining professional experience and intercultural knowledge in two professional domains:…

Spring Fellows Forum, April 28, 2023

Spring 2023 BLC Fellows ForumInstructional Development Research Projects TBAChi Leung Chan, Lecturer, East Asian Languages & CulturesTBA Introducing Gender Neutrality in Italian Language PedagogySimo Cocco, GSR, Italian StudiesTBA TBDSemyon Leonenko, GSR, Slavic Languages & LiteraturesTBA TBDAhmad Rashid Salim, GSR, Middle Eastern Languages & CulturesTBA Friday, April 28, 2023B-4 Dwinelle Hall & Zoom3-5pm

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…

Talk by Aurora Tsai, February 15, 2023

Aurora Tsai - Project Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communication Strategies, University of Tokyo Mixed-Heritage Individuals: Rewriting Narratives of Racial, Linguistic and Cultural Deficiency Mixed-heritage individuals often have difficulty forming a positive sense of racial and cultural identity due to monoracial and raciolinguistic ideologies--beliefs that it is natural to categorize people into distinct categories of…

Workshop by Mark Kaiser and Maya Sidhu, January 30, 2023

WORKSHOP: The Grammar of Film: A Primer for World Language Teachers Mark Kaiser - Retired BLC Associate Director       Maya Sidhu - Continuing Lecturer, French Department Designed for language instructors who would like to have a better understanding of the visual language of film in order to enrich classroom discussions on films they teach, this workshop will…

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,…

Swahili Language Courses

During the regular academic year, elementary, intermediate and advanced courses are offered in the fall and spring semesters. During the summer, intensive beginning Swahili may be offered. A summary of this is as follows:

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