Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Orlando Garcia on December 7, 2007
Fall 2007 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Reevaluating and Redesigning the Portuguese Language Curriculum Clélia F. Donovan, Lecturer, Spanish & Portuguese Making the shift from language classes to courses in literature has long been arduous for both students and teachers. This project proposes lesson plans and activities that bring into play the link…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on September 21, 2007
Language Ecology in Practice: Implications for Foreign Language Education by Claire Kramsch, Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of California, Berkeley Language ecology as applied to language learning has been defined as a “convenient metaphor for a post-structuralist conceptualization of language learning as a nonlinear, relational human activity, co-constructed between humans and their…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on May 4, 2007
Spring 2007 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Teaching Chinese Culture and Communicative Discourse through Film Lihua Zhang, East Asian Languages and Cultures This project has designed exercises for video clips to be used as scaffolding guiding students to analyze communicative discourse and explore cultural dimensions of discourse pragmatics as well as engage them…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 27, 2007
Language Policy in Multilingual Israel: Ideologies, Conflicts, Rights, and Research by Elana Shohamy, (Professor, Tel Aviv University), Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley Language policies, whether on the educational or societal level, are products of political, social, economic, and education ideologies. As such, languages and language policies are used as major symbols of…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 6, 2007
Iconic Creativity in Haiku: A Linguistic Analysis of Basho’s Revisions by Masako Hiraga, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley This presentation focuses on the styles of meaning creation by metaphor and iconicity in Basho’s haiku. The analysis particularly looks at the revising process of his two haiku texts, in terms of semantics,…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 16, 2007
Too Much and Not Enough Identity: Constituting English in Asian Language Policy Circles by Joseph Lo Bianco, Chair of Language and Literacy Education, University of Melbourne, Australia This lecture discusses recent and long-standing attributions of both cultural neutrality and bias in and for English. The lecture will trace both recent and longer term associations of…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 23, 2007
From National Educational Standards to Language Use by Sally Sieloff Magnan, Professor of French and Director of the Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison The National Standards for Foreign Language Learning are having a substantial effect on instruction. However, socially based perspectives of second language acquisition, focusing on language use, lead us to question how we…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 2, 2007
Learning, Change, and Power: Competing Frames of Technology and Literacy by Mark Warschauer, Department of Education, University of California, Irvine Three main frameworks shape how we think about digital technologies and literacy. The frame of learning attends to how use of new technologies affects the development of reading, writing, and academic literacy. The frame of…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on December 8, 2006
Fall 2006 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Designing Communicative Tasks for the Bulgarian Language Classroom Stiliana Milkova, GSR, Comparative Literature For this project, I have created a handbook of communicative tasks and culture-based activities to facilitate instruction of intermediate Bulgarian at Berkeley. The handbook is meant to provide supplementary materials for five chapters…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 3, 2006
Claire Kramsch and the BLC: Her Legacy to Berkeley Language Lecturers Lisa Little, Lecturer of Slavic Languages, Moderator From Across the Copier to the BLC Karen Möller, Scandinavian ‘No’ Doesn’t Always Mean ‘No’ Lihua Zhang, East Asian Languages Looking from the Eifel Tower Through the Brandenburg Gate Towards the Campanile: Claire Kramsch and the…