Author: Orlando Garcia

Results in BLC Posts

Lectures by BLC Fellows (C. Donovan, M. Kentfield, R. Adler-Peckerar, L. Scott), 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…

Lecture by Claire Kramsch, 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…

Lecture, May 4, 2007: BLC Fellows (L. Zhang, N. Komatsu, M. Huffmaster, L. M. Erley, A. Dwyer)

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…

Lecture by Elana Shohamy, 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…

Lecture by Masako Hiraga, 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,…

Lecture by Joe Lo Bianco, 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…

Lecture by Sally Magnan, 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…

Lecture by Mark Warschauer, 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…

Lectures by BLC Fellows (A. Mazur, S. Milkova, E. Morabito, L. Li), 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…

Panel Discussion on Claire Kramsch and the BLC: Her Legacy to Berkeley Language Lecturers, 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…

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