Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Mark Kaiser on November 1, 2011
The special issue of L2 Journal, “Teaching Language, Culture, and Text with Film” is now available here. Contents: “Teaching Japanese Pragmatic Competence Using Film Clips” by Wakae Kambara. “The Five C’s: Bringing a 1980’s Film into the 21st Century Chinese Language Learning Context” by Gloria Bien. “Rebels with a Cause: (Re)defining Identities and Culture in…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on November 1, 2011
Claire Kramsch, editor of L2 Journal, and Mark Kaiser, guest editor of the special issue, cordially invite the foreign language community to a reception celebrating the release of the special issue, “Teaching Language, Culture and Text with Film.” Tuesday, November 1, 2011 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. 34 Dwinelle Hall
Posted by Mark Kaiser on October 10, 2011
Chris Palmatier, the BLC’s programmer for the past several years and before that, manager of the DCRF facility, has left the BLC for a bright future in independent contracting of his programming skills. Chris has been an amazing asset to the BLC, helping numerous faculty with advice and contributions to their research and educational software.…
Posted by Victoria Williams on August 30, 2011
From a Fan of Little House on The Prairie to a Japanese Lecturer at UC Berkeley: Chika Shibahara PROLOGUE: As a teenager, Chika Shibahara had her mother sew clothes designed by Chika and inspired by her favorite American TV series, Little House on the Prairie. Little did Chika know then where life would lead her…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on June 20, 2011
This coming year’s “On the Same Page” program is all about linguistic diversity and multilingualism. The website, On the Same Page: Voices of Berkeley, is now up and running, and has a great “Welcome” video as well as links to 1) a virtual bookshelf of reading materials; 2) the “Talk Back” experiment, which allows new…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on June 20, 2011
We are pleased to announce that the Audio Archive of Linguistic Field Recordings and the Survey of California and Other Indigenous Languages have merged their databases and are now accessible through the portal site California Language Archive. The Audio Archive contains 1700+ hours of recordings of stories, songs/chants, and elicitation of linguistic data in 221…
Posted by Victoria Williams on June 3, 2011
Dear Graduating Class, Dear Parents, Relatives, and Friends: On this day of celebration, many of you will be celebrating and talking about this graduation in many different languages. You will be dreaming of it in Spanish, raving about it in Korean, and in the years to come, who knows? You might remember it in German,…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on April 22, 2011
Amelia Barili is a Spanish Language and Culture lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, who is inspiring and preparing university students to use what they know to help others, through an innovative pedagogy that integrates the most recent findings of Cognitive Science Neurobiology and Service Learning. Recognizing the potential that UC Berkeley students…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on April 21, 2011
As many of you know, the Continuing Resolution passed by Congress contains significant cuts to international education, including a 40% cut in funding for Title VI centers, Fulbright-Hays, and FIPSE. These cuts will impact the quality of international education at UC Berkeley, in particular funding for students to study LCTLs. Please read the letter from…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on April 20, 2011
Last month’s language: Korean. Now see if you can discover this month’s language, without using the Internet! Even though it is the native language of only 40% of the population of this small country of 12 million souls, it is spoken by 94% of them. One of its most notable characteristics is that it features…