Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Orlando Garcia on July 25, 2020
Un-Boxing Gender: Toward Trans-Affirming L2 Pedagogies Kris Knisely, Assistant Professor, French and Intercultural Competence, University of ArizonaSeptember 11, 3-5 pm Anniversary Panel for L2 Journal: What Should Be the Knowledge Base of Foreign Language Teachers in Higher Education? Margot Szarke – Lecturer, FrenchDominick Lawton – Graduate Student, SlavicIgnacio Navarrete – Professor, SpanishMinsook Kim – Lecturer,…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on May 14, 2020
A Workshop on Remote Language Teaching Is this the new reality? This online workshop will help us prepare for the possibility of continued remote instruction in the fall semester. Please come and share what worked (and what didn’t) in your classes this spring. What would you do differently in the fall? How might things be different…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 8, 2020
Give to the BLC When you give to the Berkeley Language Center Fund you support the learning and teaching of 59 languages at UC Berkeley! Founded in 1994, the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) is housed in the Division of the Arts and Humanities of the College of Letters and Sciences. The BLC is a vibrant…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 22, 2020
Universitas Linguarum The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition Linguarum enim inscitia disciplinas universas aut exstinxit, aut depravavit… For ignorance of languages either marred or abolished the world of learning…. —Erasmus, 1529, De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis. Opera I, 377 Berkeley’s celebration of languages in the Library could not come at a better moment. We…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 21, 2020
Spring 2020 BLC FellowsInstructional Development Research Projects via Zoom (Meeting ID: 937-3656-5945) Literacy en français and à la française: Socializing Students to Academic Literacy Practices in a Foreign LanguageEmily Linares, GSR, FrenchDespite an emphasis on “multiliteracies” and “intercultural learning” in literacy research, reading and writing in a foreign language continue to be largely understood as…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 21, 2020
Glenn Levine, Professor, German, UC Irvine On Butterflies, Onions, and Surfers: How Language Teaching Can Save the World Teaching a language always implies an underlying pedagogy. Regardless of whether that pedagogy is explicit or implicit, it is comprised of knowledge, beliefs and assumptions about what language is and how language learning happens. In this presentation, I…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 21, 2020
Per recommendation from campus leadership, we are postponing our BLC Lecture scheduled for this Friday, and will reschedule in the Fall 2020. Julie Kerekes, Associate Professor, Language and Literacies Education, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto Crossing Institutional Borders: A Collaborative Study in Pragmatics Between University Students and a Settlement Organization Soft skills,…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 21, 2020
Emily Hellmich, Assistant Professor, French and Second Language Acquisition/Teaching, University of ArizonaKimberly Vinall, Professor, Spanish, De Anza College "Machine Translation is a lot like Booze": Language Instructors' Beliefs about Machine Translation Whether we like it or not, foreign language teaching and learning is implicated in the increased popularity and sophistication of machine translation platforms (e.g., GoogleTranslate). With…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 12, 2020
"Machine Translation is a lot like Booze": Language Instructors' Beliefs about Machine Translation Emily Hellmich, Assistant Professor, French and Second Language Acquisition/Teaching, University of Arizona Kimberly Vinall, Professor, Spanish, De Anza College Friday, February 7, 3-5 pm Crossing Institutional Borders: A Collaborative Study in Pragmatics Between University Students and a Settlement Organization Julie Kerekes, Associate…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 5, 2019
Found in Translation (FIT) Working Group Multilingual Translation of Figurative Language in Internet-TV-Series: A Contrastive Approach Maria Labarta Postigo Professor, Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, University of Valencia, Spain This paper analyzes and discusses the translation of figurative language in internet-TV-series. Today, technology and distribution networks make it possible to have access to original series from…