Spring 2023 BLC Fellows ForumInstructional Development Research Projects Learning Mandarin and Cantonese in Health Communication ContextsChi Leung Chan, Lecturer, East Asian Languages & CulturesWhen Mandarin speakers learn Cantonese (and vice versa), they enjoy abundant transferable knowledge, yet suffer from tricky exceptions. The situation is more acute when it comes to professional contexts. This presentation aims […]
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Words in Action, Friday, April 14
Words in Action A Multilingual Student Performance Come and celebrate an afternoon of linguistic diversity as UC Berkeley students perform scenes, songs, and poems with the participation of their respective language lecturers: ARABIC (Amel Belguith, Nathalie Khankan), ARMENIAN (Myrna Douzjian),CATALAN (Ana Belen Redondo Campillos), CHINESE (Lihua Zhang),FILIPINO (Cynthia Agnes Abban, Joy Barrios, Karen Llagas), FRENCH […]
Talk by Avineri & Baquedano-López , April 7, 2023
‘Applied Linguistic Anthropology’ in Action: Language & Social Justice Projects and Praxis Over the past 15 years in the U.S. we have seen an exciting and promising concerted effort to examine, question, and interrupt practices where language is used to create contexts and situations of social inequities. Anthropologists, applied linguists, and scholars in related language […]
Talk by Alastair Pennycook
With a Special Introduction by Claire Kramsch – Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley Alastair Pennycook – Emeritus Professor of Language, Society, and Education, University of Technology Sydney Language as Assemblage A focus on language(s) as assemblage reconfigures what counts as language and how social, spatial and material worlds interact. An understanding of assemblages as entangled groupings […]
Talk by Aurora Tsai, February 15, 2023
Aurora Tsai – Project Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communication Strategies, University of Tokyo Mixed-Heritage Individuals: Rewriting Narratives of Racial, Linguistic and Cultural Deficiency Mixed-heritage individuals often have difficulty forming a positive sense of racial and cultural identity due to monoracial and raciolinguistic ideologies–beliefs that it is natural to categorize people into distinct categories of […]
Workshop by Mark Kaiser and Maya Sidhu, January 30, 2023
WORKSHOP: The Grammar of Film: A Primer for World Language Teachers Mark Kaiser – Retired BLC Associate Director Maya Sidhu – Continuing Lecturer, French Department Designed for language instructors who would like to have a better understanding of the visual language of film in order to enrich classroom discussions on films they teach, this workshop will […]
BLC Spring 2023 Lecture Series
Workshop: Filmic LanguageThe Grammar of Film: A Primer for World Language Teachers Mark Kaiser – Retired BLC Associate DirectorMaya Sidhu – Continuing Lecturer, French Department Monday, January 30, 3-5pm, B-4 Dwinelle Mixed-Heritage Individuals: Rewriting Narratives of Racial, Linguistic and Cultural Deficiency Aurora Tsai, Project Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communication Strategies, University of Tokyo Wednesday, […]
Fall Fellows Forum, December 2, 2022
Fall 2022 BLC Fellows ForumInstructional Development Research Projects North African Arabic Language CourseAmel Belguith, Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages & CulturesThis presentation outlines a course designed to teach North African Arabic, with an emphasis on Moroccan Arabic, for students who know Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and are interested in pursuing further study in Arabic or a […]
Panel on Supporting Study & Work Abroad, November 17, 2022
Supporting Language/Culture Study and Work Abroad through Fellowships Studying and/or working abroad can be a transformative experience as one engages with other ways of thinking and being in the world. For students of language, studying abroad can also provide opportunities to further develop their understanding of the language. For those who have finished their classroom […]
Talk by Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza, November 7, 2022
Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza – Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside From Research on Sociocultural Linguistics to Critical Literacy for Language Education In this presentation, Dr. Holguín Mendoza describes the design and implementation of a comprehensive Critical Sociocultural Linguistics Literacy curriculum that deconstructs and questions sociopolitical hierarchies, challenges the subordination of heritage language students’ linguistic […]
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