Results in BLC Posts
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…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on October 13, 2006
Joint Commitment and Common Ground in a Maya Ritual Event by William Hanks, Professor of Social, Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley Social interaction both presupposes and produces common ground between interactants, in the form of knowledge and perceptual access that the participants share, or come to share, in the course of…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on September 22, 2006
Some Thoughts on the Cultural Permutations of Literacy in Language Teaching by Janet Swaffar, Professor of German, Department of Germaic Studies, University of Texas at Austin This talk explores literacy as a culturally marked phenomenon that has many dimensions. I will start with examples of how cultural contexts manifest themselves among different genres for different…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on September 15, 2006
Language, Feeling, and the Brain: A Pribram-Based Model by Daniel Shanahan, Professor of Communications, Humanities Faculty, Charles University in Prague Linguistic theory since the Cognitive Revolution has followed one of the premises of that revolution by largely sidelining the issue of emotions and concentrating on those aspects of language which are more strictly cognitive. However,…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on May 12, 2006
Spring 2006 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects A Supplementary Reading Course in Japanese Wakae Kambara, East Asian Languages and Cultures When students read foreign texts, they frequently reconstruct the meaning of sentences based solely on their lexical knowledge and tend to fail to understand the text accurately. This project attempts to develop methods…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on May 1, 2006
Berkeley Language Center Spring 2006 Lecture Series The K-16 Chinese Flagship Program: A Model for the Future by Madeline Spring, UO Chinese Flagship K-16 Academic Director, Center for Applied Second Language Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene OR The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) at the University of Oregon and the Portland Public School…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 28, 2006
Workshop: A Practical Introduction to the Use of Corpora Lecture: Corpus Linguistics and Language Development: Research, Assessment, and Pedagogical Innovation Steven Thorne, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Applied Languages Studies, The Pennsylvania State Univeristy, Pennsylvania Scott Payne, Assistant Director, Center for Language Acquisition for Technology and Research, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania WORKSHOP: In…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 10, 2006
Workshop: What do we know about (literature) reading proficiency in a second language? Lecture: Foreign languages surviving and thriving in conventional university settings by Elizabeth Bernhardt, Professor of German, and Stanford Language Center, Director, Stanford University, California WORKSHOP: This workshop will focus on second-language reading proficiency with a specific emphasis on upper-level expository and…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 24, 2006
Berkeley Language Center Spring 2006 Lecture Series Linguistic Human Rights – Some Recent Debates: Intellectual Games versus Respect by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Professor Emerita, Department of Languages and Culture, Roskilde University, Denmark, Department of Education, Åbo Akademi University Vasa, Finland Using concrete examples (from Pennycook, Blommaert, Canagarajah, May, etc), the paper presents and discusses some recent…