Events at the BLC

Associate Professor Uju Anya will discuss anti-Black racism and inequity in education.

Claire Kramsch and Mairi McLaughlin will discuss new L2 Journal issue.

Per Urlaub, Associate Professor, MiddleburyEva Dessein, Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury From Disrupted Classrooms to Human-Machine Collaboration? The Pocket Calculator, Google Translate, and the Future of Language Education In this talk we argue that consumer-oriented machine translation (MT) software applications are disrupting foreign language (FL) education. To mitigate this impact, we offer guidance on how to […]

Claire Knowles, Spanish Instructor, Motlow State Community CollegeJason Jolley, Professor of Spanish, Missouri State University Luciane Maimone, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Missouri State University Laurence Denié-Higney, Senior Lecturer of French, UC Los AngelesVera Klekovkina, Associate Professor of French, University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointYoung Ae Kim, Assistant Professor, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language CenterJieun Ryu, Director, […]

Claire Kramsch, Professor Emerita, L2 Journal Editor, UC Berkeley Emily Hellmich, Assistant Professor, University of ArizonaKimberly Vinall, BLC Executive Director Do You Speak Translate?: A Conversation about Machine Translation and Language Education Join Claire Kramsch in conversation with Kimberly Vinall and Emily Hellmich, to discuss the special issue “ Machine Translation and Language Education: Implications […]

Keith Hernandez (BLC Recording Technician) & Kimberly Vinall (BLC Executive Director) Producing Podcasts in the Classroom In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to record, edit, and share podcasts. It will demonstrate the use of commonly available recording tools, such as smartphones, laptops, and Zoom, along with text-based audio editing software to make the […]

The BLC is hosting seven lectures this Spring.

Fall 2021 BLC Fellows ForumInstructional Development Research Projects Course Innovation of Hindi 101A (Readings in Modern Hindi Literature)Nora Melnikova, Lecturer, South & Southeast Asian StudiesIn this presentation I share an innovative reworking of a literature reading course designed for medium-high to advanced-high speakers of Hindi. The objective was to shift the curricular focus towards a […]

Personal Narratives of Ecolinguistic Identity for a Sustainable Future NATALIIA GOSHYLYK Associate Professor, English Philology DepartmentVasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) The project attempts to bring together the materials on ecolinguistic identity, which is understood as expressing ecological identity in media discourse, with a focus on sustainable development discourse as its content frame. It will […]