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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…

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: One, the common ideological construction of SA as “L2-land”, or the primary context where…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:

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…

Emily A. Hellmich Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center eahellmich@berkeley.eduOfficeB-33B Dwinelle Emily A. Hellmich completed her PhD in Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 and her MA in French Cultural Studies at Columbia University in 2010. Her research focuses on the intersection of globalization, digital technology, and language education, with recent…

BLC Roundtable: Summer 2022 FellowsFilm in the Language / Culture Curriculum Introduction by Mark KaiserPresenters: Cristina Farronato & Giuliana Perco (Italian), Karen Llagas (Filipino), Minsook Kim (Korean), Amir Effat (Spanish), Nataliia Goshylyk (Ukrainian), Nora Melnikova (Hindi)Friday, September 23, 3-5pm, B-4 Dwinelle & Zoom Undoing Competence:Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics Jonathan…