Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 25, 2015
Words in Action: A Multilingual Student Performance Come and celebrate an afternoon of linguistic diversity as UC Berkeley students perform scenes, songs and poems in Arabic, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Czech, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu. April 24, 20154:00 - 8:00 PMThe Osher Studio2055 Center Street https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfw_auLuIbrzgWANXCibcPWid-T4HN_bo
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 18, 2015
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 –…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 31, 2015
The Multilingual/Multicultural Challenge in Language Education in France and Europe after Charlie Hebdo Nathalie Auger, University of Montpellier, Frances Considering Europe as a plurilingual and multicultural area including family languages (migrant and regional languages) is fairly new. The Council of Europe has produced recommandations for equal treatment for all languages and cultures and…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 12, 2015
Principles and Practices of Translation and Interpretation in the Multilingual European Union The European Union is unique in the sense that it works and passes legislation in 24 official EU languages. Every EU citizen has the right to communicate with the EU institutions in any of these official languages, and all EU legislation is published…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 31, 2015
Speech and Thought Presentation in French Sophie Marnette, University of Oxford, Medieval French Studies Dr. Marnette will offer a brief overview of her work on Speech and Thought Presentation in French. More particularly, it will highlight and discuss hybrid forms of reported discourse that can be found in press articles and day to day conversations.…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on December 6, 2014
Fall 2014 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Memoria Histórica: A Film Module for Intermediate Spanish Donna Southard, Lecturer, Spanish & Portuguese The purpose of this project was to develop pedagogical material for a film module on historical memory in Intermediate Spanish, as part of a larger departmental goal of increasing the presence and effectiveness…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 16, 2014
Teaching World Languages in the High School Context: Realities, Challenges and Aspirations Don Doehla and Nancy Salsig, Berkeley World Language Project Although the ideal model for world language courses is based on theory and research and is codified in state content standards and ACTFL documents, most secondary language teachers are overwhelmed by the challenges of…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on October 18, 2014
Linguistic Contributions to Native California Language Teaching Andrew Garrett, Linguistics Department, UC Berkeley Academics with PhDs in linguistics rarely have graduate training in language learning or language teaching; applied linguistics is not often part of a linguistics graduate program, and when it is the students in applied linguistics and in theoretical and descriptive linguistics are…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on September 20, 2014
Digital Social Reading: Textual Interpretation as Collaborative Activity Carl Blyth, Department of French & Italian, University of Texas at Austin Current e-reading devices allow multiple readers to read the same text together, annotate the text and to share their annotations. The resulting practice is referred to as digital social reading. This new literacy practice violates…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on September 15, 2014
BLC Fall 2014 Lecture Series Digital Social Reading: Textual Interpretation as Collaborative Activity Carl Blyth, University of Texas at Austin Friday, September 19 B-4 Dwinelle, 3-5 pm Linguistic Contributions to Native California Language Teaching Andrew Garrett, UC Berkeley Friday, October 17 370 Dwinelle, 3-5 pm Teaching World Languages in the High School Context: Realities, Challenges…