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Conference on Language & Artificial Intelligence, February 28, 2024

LANGUAGE & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A CONFERENCE FOR HUMANITIES AND TECH Researchers, instructors, and practitioners from the UC Berkeley community gather to showcase the work being done in machine learning and language/culture study and to explore questions of language, language use, and technology from three perspectives: research, industry, theory. What questions about humanistic inquiry does AI…

BLC Spring 2024 Event Series

Talk:Towards a Pedagogy of Transculturality Glynda Hull, Professor, Berkeley School of Education Catherine Park, Doctoral Candidate, Berkeley School of Education Friday, February 2, 3-5pm, B-4 Dwinelle & Zoom Talk:Supporting Language Learning for Neurodiverse Students in Classroom Settings Professor Judit Kormos, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University Friday, February 23, 12-2pm, Zoom Only Talk:Sparking the Imagination:…

Accessibility Information and Event Accommodations

MAKING REQUESTS FOR EVENT ACCOMMODATIONS If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Orlando Garcia (ogarcia@berkeley.edu) with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of…

Talk by Janice McGregor, November 3, 2023

Toward Justice in Study Abroad, Intercultural Learning, and Language Education Study abroad (SA) is a fixture in post-secondary language education in the United States. In this talk, I introduce two different–yet entwined–facets of SA and language learning that can cause harm. The first is the common ideological construction of SA as “L2-land”, or the primary…

Workshop by Dr. Joel Walsh, October 13, 2023

Creating Instructional Materials to Develop AI Literacies Dr. Joel Walsh, Dr. Emily Hellmich, Dr. Kimberly Vinall In this workshop, participants will apply concepts from Thursday’s talk by Dr. Walsh (Responding to the “Arrival”: Essential Background Information and Strategies for Language Instructors in the Age of Human-Like Language Technologies (Machine Translation and Large Language Models)) to…

Talk by Dr. Joel Walsh, October 12, 2023

Responding to the “Arrival”: Essential Background Information and Strategies for Language Instructors in the Age of Human-Like Language Technologies (Machine Translation and Large Language Models) Machine translation (MT) systems were once clunky and error-prone but have improved greatly in the last decade. Within the last two years, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have achieved…

Video Projects in Dutch 1

It’s not easy to find a good assessment for first semester language courses, especially when it comes to speaking skills. Oral exams can be very stressful for learners and, often, these types of assessments don’t offer a clear window into the breadth and depth of learners’ capabilities.  For several years, Esmée van der Hoeven, lecturer…

Talk by Avineri & Baquedano-López , April 7, 2023

Netta Avineri – Associate Professor, Language Teacher Education & Intercultural Communication, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Patricia Baquedano-López – Associate Professor, Berkeley School of Education '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…

Swahili Language Courses

During the regular academic year, elementary, intermediate and advanced courses are offered in the fall and spring semesters. During the summer, intensive beginning Swahili may be offered. A summary of this is as follows:

Instructor Survey: Preliminary Results & New Directions

Last month, we asked for your direct input on the new directions of the BLC in the form of a survey. We are sincerely grateful to the close-to-50 people who generously gave of their time to share with us their ideas. Thank you! We are still in the process of analyzing all the results, but, in…

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