Instructional Development Research Projects A Spoonful of Films Makes the Literature Go Down: Supplementing French 3 Cirriculum with Filmic Texts Martin Lowry, GSR, Fench This project hopes to capitalize on the semiotic sophistication of students raised in our current film culture. Rather than reading only written texts, students in this course will be encouraged […]
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Lecture by Tim McNamara, April 14, 2003
Tearing us Apart Again: the Paradigm Wars and the Search for Validity by Tim McNamara, University of Melbourne Language testing research is an increasingly divided field, as it responds to the paradigm shifts in broader applied linguistics research. On the one hand, language testing validation research places a fundamental emphasis on the generalizability of results […]
Colloquium on Language, Identity and Change in the Modern Arab World: Implications for the Study of Language and Culture, April 4-5, 2003 (C. Holes, I. Muhawi, M. Al-Batal, L. Sarraoub, M. Eid, J. Hayes, S. S’hiri, K. Walters, M. Cooperson)
Colloquium: Language, Identity and Change in the Modern Arab World: Implications for the Study of Language and Culture Social History, Political History, and Dialect Prestige in the Arab World: The Cases of Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq Clive Holes, Oxford University UniversityNegotiating Diaspora: Translation and the Language of Exile Ibrahim Muhawi, Edinburgh Identity and Language […]
Lecture by Dan Slobin, March 10, 2003
How People Talk About Motion Events: Some Cognitive and Communicative Consequences of Linguistic Typology by Dan I. Slobin, UC Berkeley Friday, March 10, 2003 3:00 – 5:00 pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture by Aneta Pavlenko, February 21, 2003
Bilingualism, Emotions and Cognition by Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University Friday, February 21, 2003 3:00 – 5:00 pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture by Fred Genesee, February 7, 2003
Portrait of the Bilingual Child by Fred Genesee, Professor in Psychology, McGill University Researchers/theoreticians, professionals, and laypersons alike often view the simultaneous acquisition of two languages during the pre-school years with reservation and outright apprehension because it is thought to exceed the language learning capacity of the young child and, thus, to incur potential costs, […]
Lectures by BLC Fellows (Daniel, Dimitriou, Short, Templeman, Wellmon)
Instructional Development Research Projects Interactional Patterns in Web-based Writing of Foreign Language Students Paige Daniel, Education This study raises questions about the potential of the electronic medium to promote cross-cultural communicative competence. Students carry different perceptions of their purposes and roles into telecollaborative language exchanges that come to bear on the ways in which […]
Lecture by Theo Van Leeuwen, November 4, 2002
Image Banks and the Semantics of Contemporary Visual Communication by Theo Van Leeuwen, Professor, Cadiff University Monday, November 4, 2002 370 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture by Gilberte Furstenberg, October 18, 2002
Redefining the Teaching of Culture: The Pedagogy of Electronic Media by Gilberte Furstenberg, Senior Lecturer in French, Foreign Languages and Literatures, MIT Gilberte Furstenberg will present Cultura, and NEH-funded project designed to develop students’ in-depth understanding of another culture. She will demonstrate an innovative methodology that uses the Web to foster cross-cultural understanding and collaboration […]
Lecture by Gaudalupe Valdes, September 13, 2002
Teaching the Commonly Taught Languages as Heritage Languages: Questions and Continuing Dilemmas by Guadalupe Valdes, Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Stanford University This presentation will offer a brief overview of the linguistic and educational conditions that gave rise to the focus on the teaching of heritage languages within the foreign language profession in the […]