Events Archive

The Berkeley Language Center has hosted hundreds of events over our almost 30-year history. This list commemorates the past events and is added to regularly. 

1996-1997

Sept    

TALK: Awareness, Autonomy, and Authenticity: Language Learning from an Ecological Perspective 
Leo Van Lier

Oct     

TALK: Literary Texts in the Foreign Language Classroom
Lothar Bredella

Oct     

TALK: Language and Myth, Then and Now: Ernst Cassirer’s Language and Myth and Merlin Donald’s Origins of the Modern MindDaniel Shanahan

Nov     

COLLOQUIUM: Subjectivity, Discourse Practices, & 2nd Language Learning 
Claire Kramsch (Respondent)
Linda Von Hoene: Subjects-in-process: Rethinking Foreign Language Study Through Psychoanalytic Theory and Feminist Theory
Bonny Norton Pierce: Reconceptualizing ‘The Individual’ in Second Language Acquisition Theory
Livia Polanyi: Social Categories and the Construction of the Foreign Language Learner 
Meryl Siegal: Learning How to be the ‘Other’ (Gaijin): Discursive Practices and Second Language Learning in Japan 

Feb

TALK: The Paradox of the Language Teacher: What do Language Teachers Teach?
James Gee

Mar

TALK: Language, Culture, and Self in Language Learning
Barbara C. Johnstone

Apr     

PANEL: Digital Technologies and Foreign Language Pedagogy: New Tools and New Paradigms?
John Barson, Dorothy Chun, Richard Kern, John Mugane, Steve Thorne, Mark Kaiser (Moderator)

May    

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Francine A’Ness: Computer Technology & Second Language Acquisition: Preparing the Spanish and Portuguese Department for the 21st Century (Behind the Screens: Issues Concerning Cultural Representation via CD-ROM)
Julie Belz: Discourse Analysis at the Cultural Fault Line: Capitalizing on the Multilingual Reality of Language Study (Language Use as an Index of Self-in-Transition: Evidence from Multilingual Texts)
Kristin Kopp: Rewriting the German III Curriculum
Cecilia Chu: Completion of ‘Fan-jian – Chinese,' Character Conversion Training Program 
Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl: Developing a New Language Curriculum in Afrikaans: Its History, Current Status and Future Role as a National Language in South Africa

1997-1998

Sept    

PANEL: Rethinking the Nature and Structure of Foreign Language and Literature Departments
Russell Berman, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Ralph Hexter, Linda von Hoene, Mark Kaiser, Claire Kramsch, Jeffrey Riegel

Oct     

TALK: Critical Language Testing and Beyond
Elana Shohamy

Oct     

TALK: Demonstration of CD-ROMS for Language Learning
Elaine Leary

Dec     

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Matt Erlin: Visual and Textual Literacy: Establishing a Structural Link between Visual and Textual Analysis
Edwige Gamache: Revision of Curriculum in French 3 & 4 (Second-Year French)
Jennifer Kapczynski: A Handbook on Performative Strategies in the Classroom
Lori Ultsch: Development of a Graded Reader (for the L2 Reader)

Jan

TALK: Two Languages Acquisition Theories: Krashen’s I+1 and Vygotsky’s ZPD Incommensurable Discourse, Incommensurable Theories
James Lantolf

Feb

COLLOQUIUM: Technology, Language and Literacy 
Rick Kern, Donald McQuade, Richard Sterling (Respondents)
Richard Lanham: An Alphabet Which Thinks
Janet Murray: Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Shape of Narrative in Digital Media

Mar    

TALK: Learning and Using Other Languages: SLA or Language Crossings?
Benjamin Rampton

Apr     

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects 
Francine A’Ness: We See the World by Authoring It-Teaching Culture Through Multimedia Design for the Spanish & Portuguese Department
Susan Martin: Improving Oral Proficiency in Spanish Language Classrooms Through the Use of Audio, Video, and Computer Technologies: A Proposal for Materials and Methodology Development
Ying Yang: Multimedia Exercises for First-Year Chinese Student-Using Computer Technology to Assist First-Year Students in the Acquisition of Chinese
Nadia Yaqub: Developing Web-based Tutorials for Teaching Media Arabic-Exploring the Process of Text Selection and Organization to Create Tutorials Using Interactive Technology

1998-1999

Sept    

TALK: Writing for Publication
Sandra McKay

Oct

TALK: If Not Grammar, Then What?
Diane Musumeci

Nov    

TALK: Folk Theories of Language Learning
Dennis Preston

Dec

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Irma Pena Gosalvez: Toward Developing a Curriculum for Heritage Students of Tagalog
Ann Marsh-Flores: More than Song & Dance: Exploring a Music-Based First Year Language Curriculum
Doug Moody: The Curtain Rises on Digital Theater: Rehearsing and Staging the First Act
Peter Spoerl: Vocabulary Acquisition and Semantic Field: Communicative Strategies for the Introduction of Culturally Specified Vocabulary in the Foreign Language

Feb     

TALK: Growing Up Bilingual: Competence or Confusion
Fred Genesee

Mar    

TALK: Intercultural Communication: Problem, Solution, New Problem
Ron Scollon

Mar    

TALK: Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: The Status of Academic LanguageProficiency in the Education of Bilingual Students
Jim Cummins

Apr

TALK: Content-Based Instruction and Adult Instructed L2 Acquisition: A Curricular Perspective
Heidi Byrnes

Apr

TALK: Chaos/Complexity Theory and Language Acquisition Research: Transcending Differences
Diane Larsen-Freeman

May

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Nabil Abdelfattah: Developing Reading and Listening Strategies for Beginning and Intermediate Level Students of Arabic Using Interactive Multi-Media CD-ROM
Jeremy Chen: Chinese Characters On-line Learning Guide
Ann Marsh-Flores: Developing a Music-based 1st Year Language Curriculum: Exploring the Applicability of Rhythmic-based Texts in Russian
Doug Moody: Act Two: The Curtain Rises on Digital Theatre, but You Have to Download It First
Sabine Stoll: Teaching Russian Aspect: A Case of Grammatical Harassment?

1999 – 2000

Sept    

TALK: Navigating the Academic Rapids: What I Wish I Had Known Back When
Nicolas Shumway

Oct     

TALK: A Neurobiological Perspective on Variable Success in Second Language Acquisition
John Schumann

Oct     

TALK: Error Gravity Research: Some Findings and a Critique
Benjamin Rifkin

Nov    

TALK: Web-based Language Instruction: Enhanced Multi-media Learning Environment or Cognitive Overload?
Dorothy Chun

Nov    

TALK: Linguistic Human Rights
Robert Phillipson

Nov    

TALK: Critical Realism: An Emancipatory Social Philosophy for Studying LanguageDiversity
David Corson

Dec

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Mary Akatiff: What’s Going on in Their Heads? An Ethnography of Writers in Advanced Intermediate German Classes
John Becker: Issues in Computer Language Testing in the Classroom
Daniela Fritz: The Notion of Text and How to Teach It – A Methods Course for GSI’s Teaching 2nd and 3rd Year Foreign Language Classes
Ellen Langer: First-year Reading Materials for Students of Czech: Use of L2 Elementary School Textbooks for College Language Learners

Feb    

TALK: Tacit Assumptions: Walls That Separate the Imagined Communities of Languages and Literacy Studies
Patricia Chaput

Mar    

TALK: Planning Peace and Human Capital: Sri Lankan Language Policy
Joseph Lo Bianco

Mar    

COLLOQUIUM: Language Socialization and Acquisition: Ecological Perspective an Interdisciplinary Research Workshop at Alumni House
Ann Bannick: Negotiating the Paradox of ‘Fresh Talk’ in Advanced L2 Classrooms
Christopher Candlin: The Classroom and the Housing Estate: Researching Identities, Discourses and Membership Among Teenage Youth in Hong Kong
James Lantolf: An Activity Theoretical Perspective on Classroom Motivation
Diane Larsen-Freemen: The Interconnection Between the Individual and the Social from a Chaos/Complexity Theory Perspective
Jonathan Leather: Modeling the Acquisition of Speech in a ‘Multilingual’ Society: An Ecological Approach
Jay Lemke: Learning Academic Language Identities: Multiple Timescales in the Social Ecology of Scientific Education
Elinor Ochs: Becoming a Speaker of Culture
Ben Rampton: Instructed Foreign Language Rituals In and Out of Class
Srikant Sarangi: Discourse (Mis)alignments in Professional Gatekeeping Encounters
Ron Scollon: Cross-cultural Learning and Other Catastrophes: Ruptures as Windows on the Social World
Jet Van Dam: The Case of Face: An Ecological Approach to Social Normatively in the Language Classroom
Leo Van Lier: An Ecological-semiotic Perspective on Language and Linguistics

Apr     

TALK: Second Language Learners’ Perception of Feedback: Is All Feedback Created Equal?
Sue Gass

May

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Sakae Fujita: Mushfaking Theater: Teaching Foreign Language and Culture Through Improvisational Techniques
Kathryn Klar: Using Online Resources in the Welsh Language ClassroomSirpa Tuomainen: Sinulle On Postia! Using Global E-mailing to Enhance Students
Juliette Wade: Kinjo: Exploring the Potential of a Relationally Organized Simulation Environment for Japanese Language Instruction

2000 - 2001

Sept

TALK: Testing for Performance, Skill, and Knowledge in a Foreign Language: Finding the Balance
Judith Liskin-Gasparro

Sept

TALK: Literary Texts in the Foreign Language Classroom
Lothar Bredella

Oct     

TALK: Collaborative Dialogue and Second Language Learning
Merrill Swain

Nov

TALK: Comprehensible Input: Still a Good Idea
Stephen Krashen

Dec

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Robert McFarland: ‘My Deutsche is Getting Deutsche-er All the Time’: Blurring the Borders of Input and Output in the Intermediate German Classroom
Tiffani Skogmo: Preparing for German III in German II
Kevin Wiliarty: Collective Category Negotiations and the Acquisition of German Directional Prepositions

Feb

TALK: Critical Applied Linguistics as Problematizing Practice
Alastair Pennycook

Mar     

TALK: Changing Relationships Between Context and Communication from Pre-Language to Post-Language
Martha C. Pennington

Apr     

TALK: Effects of Instruction in Second Language Acquisition
Catherine Doughty

May    

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Lisa Little: Performance & Placement: Designing a Plan for Testing in the Undergraduate Russian Program
Beth Samuelson: Doing the Work an Academic Writer: Evaluating Writing in College-Prep English
Kevin Wiliarty: The Role of Idiomaticity in the Acquisition of German Directional Prepositions
Boris Wolfson: Formative Computer-based Testing in First-semester Russian: An Error Analysis
Nelleke Van Duesen: UC Survey of Heritage Languages

2001-2002

Oct     

TALK: Literacy and Cognition
Mark Turner

Nov    

TALK: Other-Repair in Oral Proficiency Interview: A Conversation-Analytic Perspective
Gabriele Kasper

Dec

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Sarah Roberts: Using Drama to Enhance Language Learning in Second-Year French
Karina Sliwinski: Researching the Role of Performance in the Teaching of Durrenmatt's 'Der Besuch derr alten Dame' in German 3
Amelia Barili: Teaching Grammar and Composition to Advance Spanish Students: A Method that Works
Josephine Kelso: Navigating Academic Discourse: Developing Interpretations of Texts
Lynne Frame: Writing Business German for Culture and Communication

Feb     

TALK: Critical Discourse Analysis in Social Research
Norman Fairclough

Feb     

COLLOQUIUM: OPI
Ray Clifford: Proficiency/ Performance/ Achievement Testing
June Phillips: OPI and the Foreign Language Standards
Ben Rifkin: The ACTFL OPI and Oral Proficiency Guidelines as a Framework for Curricular Planning: The Lesson; the Instructional Unit; the Semester; the Program
Rafael Salaberry: The Validation Process of the OPI: Ethical and Legal Considerations
Chantal Thompson: Introduction to the Oral Proficiency Interview
Leo van Lier: The OPI and Conversation: Where Are We Now?

Apr     

TALK: From One Consortium to Another
Peter Patrikis

Apr     

TALK: Representing Language Use for Foreign Language Learners: Contributions of the Native, the Near-native, and the Non-native
Carl Blyth

May

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
David Petterson: Expanding Extensive Reading in the French 2 Curriculum
David Wacks: L2 Production and Immersion Simulation Software: The Next (Proficiency-Based) Generation
Chantelle Warner: The Design and Implementation of Networked-Based Activities in the German 2 Classroom: A Pilot Project

 2002-2003

Sept    

TALK: Teaching the Commonly Taught Languages as Heritage Languages: Questions and Continuing Dilemmas
Guadalupe Valdes

Oct

TALK: Redefining the Teaching of Culture: the Pedagogy of Electronic Media
Gilberte Furstenberg

Nov

TALK: Image Banks and the Semantics of Contemporary Visual Communication
Theo Van Leeuwen

Dec     

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Paige Daniel: Interactional Patterns in Web-based Writing of Foreign Language Students 
Agnes Dimitriou: Evaluation of Student Foreign Language Performance Beforeand After Participating in the University’s Study Abroad Program 
William Short: New Latin Methodology
Kristen Templeman: Conversational French Theater Workshop
Michael Chad Welllmon: Being in the World of Language: Rethinking Language through the Bildungstradition

Feb     

TALK: Portrait of the Bilingual Child
Fred Genesee

Feb     

TALK: Bilingualism, Emotions and Cognition
Aneta Pavlenko

Mar     

TALK: How People Talk About Motion Events: Some Cognitive and Communicative Consequences of Linguistic Typology
Dan I. Slobin

Apr     

COLLOQUIUM: Language, Identity and Change in the Modern Arab World: Implications for the Study of Language and Culture
Clive Holes: Social History, Political History, and Dialect Prestige in the Arab World: The Cases of Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq
Ibrahim Muhawi: Negotiating Diaspora: Translation and the Language ofExile
Mahmoud Al-Batal: Identity and Language Tension in Lebanon: The Arabic of Local News at LBC Television
Loukia Sarraoub: The Literacy Practices of Yemeni and Iraqi Youth: Life In and Out of School in Dearborn, MI and Lincoln, NE
Mushira Eid: Language, and Gender and Egyptian Cinema
John Hayes: Arabic and Evolving National Identities in the Middle East
Sonia S’hiri: Tunisian Arabic Speakers in the Periphery of Arab Identity? NativeSpeakers and Learners’ Linguistic Attitudes
Keith Walters: Ender Nationalism, and Language Ideology: The Tunisian Case
Michael Cooperson: Canon-bashing in Early Modern Rhetoric

Apr 

TALK: Tearing US Apart Again: the Paradigm Wars and the Search for Validity
Tim McNamara

May     

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Martin Lowry: A Spoonful of Films Makes the Literature Go Down:Supplementing French 3 Curriculum with Filmic Texts
Luh Hsyng Nelson: Chinese OPI Certification
Michael Chad Welllmon: Reclaiming a Metaphor: The Hermeneutics of Negotiation

2003-2004

Sept    

TALK: What is Language as Knowledge?
Shirley Brice Heath

Oct     

TALK: Teaching Endangered Languages
Leanne Hinton

Nov   

TALK: Heritage Language Teaching, Foreign Language Teaching: What Each Can Learn from the Other
Kirk Belnap, Guadalupe Valdez

Dec

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Polina Barskova: Creative writing and Reading in Russian: Poetry in Focus
Sargam Shah: Realistic Language Training for Prospective GSIs: Improving Chances for Success
Rakhel Villamil-Acera: Teaching Literary Texts: From Spanish 4 to Spanish 25
Clare You: Introduction to Korean Short Stories – Fourth-Year Korean

Feb     

PANEL: The Role of Translation in Language Study
Anna Livia Brawn: Naturalization of Estrangement: Options in Translation
Susan Kepner: Teaching Language Students to Translate Literature
Ibrahim Muhawi: Issues in Folkloristic Translation
Kay Richards: Translation: Transliteration to Biliteracy
Bac Tran: Enhancement of Sensitivity to Language through Translation: Something Gained
Winfried Kudszus (Moderator)

Feb     

TALK: A Talk on Second Language Acquisition: What is Less Common about the Less Commonly taught Languages?
Claire Kramsch

Feb     

TALK: Language Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Feb     

TALK: The Ethical as Transformative Lens in Instructed SLA Research
Lourdes Ortega

Mar     

TALK: Towards an Ecology of Language
Mary Pratt

Apr

TALK: Designing and Reading Multimodal Texts: Modes, Media, Knowledge and Meaning
Gunther Kress

May   

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Sarah Bailey: Yiddish Language Heritage and Teaching in the 21st Century
David Gramling: Translingual Practice: Teaching the Tropical Germany?
Stephanie Hom-Cary: A Language Flows through It(aly): Learning Italian,Multilingualism, and the Pursuit of Happiness

2004-2005

Sept   

TALK: Insights into SLA from Less Familiar Settings
Leslie Moore

Oct     

TALK: Heteroglossia in Foreign Language Classrooms: Research, Debates and Issues
Patricia A. Duff

Nov    

PANEL: Gestures in Language Learning
Eve Sweetser: Gesture and Language: Reassessing Traditional Boundaries
Irene Mittelberg: Gesture as Meditational Practice: Embodied Cognition and Semiotic Acts in Language Teaching
Claire Kramsch (Moderator)

Dec   

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Ellen Rosefield: University Classroom Language for IGSI’s
Lihua Zhang: Teaching Mandarin Chinese as a Second Dialect
Mark Nelson: Lost (and Found) in Transformation (and Transduction):Synaesthesia and Multimodal Text Creation 
Victoria Somoff: Ünder the Textual Mask: Toward Alternative Strategies in Teaching Writing to Heritage Speakers 
Renee Perelmutter: Web Logging to Enhance the Second Language Classroom

Feb     

COLLOQUIUM: Teaching Foreign Languages in Multicultural Settings
Section I: Language and Language Learning in a Multilingual Perspective
Monica Heller: Who Gets to Define What Counts as Language? Ideology and Interest in Language Teaching
Robert Train: Ideologies and Realities of Language and Foreign Language Education in the U.S.: A Critical Perspective on Native Standard Language  
Daniel Veronique: Transferability, Transfer and the Transferable: Aspects of the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages and Cultures  
Leo Van Lier: Self and Identity in Multilingual Settings: An Ecological-Semiotic Point of View

Section II: Multilingual Learning Environments

Dominique Charbonneau: Studying and Teaching French Literature in France 

and the U.S.

Patchareerat Yanaprasart: Professional Mobility and the Intercultural Speaker

Gudrun Ziegler: Categorization and Category Formation: A Basic Need in 

Language Learning Environments?

Anna Livia Brawn: The Return of Translation

Section III: Acquisition of Multiliteracies

Daniele Moore: Pluriliterate Practices and Literacy Development at Home and at 

School

Richard Kern: Multiliteracies and Foreign Language Learning

Guillaume Gentil: If Only Teachers of English and French Talked to Each Other: 

Bilingual Students’ Challenges in Developing Academic and Professional Biliteracy at the University

Edith Cognini: Co-constructed Language Biographies: English as a ‘Resource 

Language’ in the Learning of Italian as a L2

Nazamo Pierdominici: Self Representation and Sense of Belonging in Italy Today

Section IV: Teacher Development in Plurilingual Settings

Genevieve Zarate: From ‘One’ to Many: New Developments in the Training of

Teachers of French as a Foreign Language within a European Framework 

Aline Gohard-Radenkovic: The Different Levels of Plurilingualism and

Principles for the Construction of a Plurilingual Didactics at the University Level

Francisco Alarcón: Teaching the Multilingual, Multicultural Student in California 

Schools

Thao Tran-Minh: The Notion of Syncretism: Identity and Language

Alastair Pennycook: Teaching with the Flow: Plurilingualism and Permeable 

Classrooms

Feb     

TALK: Language Policy and the Ecological Turn
Alastair Pennycook 

Mar     

TALK: Fifty Probably True and Useful Findings from SLA
Richard Schmidt

Apr     

TALK: Linguistic and Cultural Identity in Study Abroad
Richard Kern

May   

TALK: At the Interface: Dynamic Interactions of Explicit and Implicit Language Knowledge
Nick Ellis

May   

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Anna Livia: How Do You Teach Translation?
Jeremy Ecke: Grammatical Estrangement
Robert Schechtman: Whither ‘Communities’? An Appraisal of Foreign Language Education in Light of the National Standards 
Natasha Azarian: A Case Study of a Multigenerational Ethnic Community: Implications for the Teaching of Less Commonly Taught Languages

2005-2006

Sept   

TALK: Metaphors to Die For: Towards a Rhetoric of National Symbols
Michael Geisler

Oct   

TALK: Ladies from the Philippines are More Compatible with American Gentlemen than American Women: The Linguistic Construction of Identities on Mail Order-bride- Websites
Ingrid Piller

Oct     

COLLOQUIUM National Colloquium on U.S. Language Educational Policy

Policies and Practices in Foreign Language Education: Robert Blake, M.R.C. Greenwood, George Breslauer, Sally Magnan, Terrence

Wiley, June Philips, Peter Patrikis, Kees de Bot, Rick Donato, Mahmoud Al-Battal, Donna Christian, Olga Kagan

Language Education and the National Interests:

Janis Jensen, Dan Davidson, Tim McNamara, Elaine Tennant, Duarte Silva, 

Richard Brecht, Jayne Abrate, Mary-Lousie Pratt, Roger Allen, Neil Granoien, 

Claire Kramsch, Richard Schmidt 

Nov    

PANEL: Grammar and Politics in the Language Classroom
Sonia S’hiri (Moderator), Sarah Roberts, Hatem Bazian, Jaleh Pirnazar, Sam Mchombo, Yoko Hasegawa

Dec   

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Nikolaus Euba: Why Teach and Learn German in 2005? Articulating the GermanLanguage Program at UC Berkeley
Olya Gurevich: Interactive Web-based Tools for Learning Georgian
David Malinowski: Interpreting the Korean English Linguistic Landscape
Sarah Roberts: Flaneur de Paris: An Interactive Learning Environment for French Conversation]

Feb     

TALK: At the Intersection of Internet-mediated Foreign Language Education and Learner Corpus Analysis
Julie Belz

Feb     

TALKLinguistic Human Rights – Some Recent Debates: Intellectual Games Versus Respect
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Mar    

Workshop: What Do We Know About (Literature) Reading Proficiency in a Second Languages
Lecture: Foreign Languages Surviving and Thriving in Conventional University Settings
Elizabeth Bernhardt

Apr     

Workshop: Data-driven Approaches to Second Language Assessment, Pedagogy, and Research
Lecture: Corpus Linguistics and Language Development: Research, Assessment and Pedagogical Innovation
Steven Thorne

May   

TALK: The K-16 Chinese Flagship Program: A Model for the Future
Madeline Spring

May    

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Wakae Kambara: A Supplementary Reading Course in Japanese
Eugenia Teytelman: Unveiling the Magic of Fairy Tales
David Divita: Toward Practice of Reflexivity: Accounting for the Self in Foreign Language Learning
Katra Anne Byram: History, Perspective and Focus on Form: Strengthening Learner Literacy in Berkeley’s German 3 Program
Pablo Baler: Un Dia en la Vida: A Documentary Production Activity as a Form of Language and Culture Acquisition

2006 – 2007

Sept     

TALK: Language, Feeling and the Brain: A Pribram-Based Model
Daniel Shanahan

Sept      TALK: Some Thoughts on the Cultural Permutations of Literacy in Language Teaching

Janet Swaffer

Oct       TALK: Joint Commitment and Common Ground in a Maya Ritual Event

William Hanks

Nov      Panel: Claire Kramsch and the BLC: Her Legacy to Berkeley Language Lecturers

Lisa Little (Moderator), Karen Moller, Nikolaus Euba, Rutie Adler, Lihua Zhang,

Seda Chavdarian

Dec      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Agnes Mazur: The High Stakes of Creativity: Multilingual Students and the 

Modeling of Academic Writing in California High Schools

Stilian Milkova: Creative and Communicative Materials for Bulgarian Instruction

Elena Morabito: Uncertain Linguistic Borders: The Pedagogy of Bosnia in the

Post-Yugoslav World

Li Liu: Grammar and Authenticity: Teaching Grammar in Context to First

Year Mandarin Heritage Students

Feb      Talk: Learning, Change, and Power:  Competing Frames of Technology and Literacy

Mark Warschauer

Feb      Talk: From National Educational Standards to Language Use

Sally Magnan

Mar      Talk: Too Much and Not Enough Identity: Constituting English in Asian Language 

Policy Circles

Joe LoBianco

Apr      Talk: Iconic Creativity in Haiku: A Linguistic Analysis of Basho’s Revisions

Masako Hiraga

Apr      Talk: Language Policy in Multilingual Israel: Ideologies, Conflicts, Rights and Research

Elana Shohamy

May      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Noriko K. Wallace: Culture Course for Advanced Modern Japanese

Lihua Zhang: Research on Integrating Chinese Culture in Chinese Language 

Teaching

Anne E. Dwyer: Narrowing the Gap between UCB and EAP: Bringing Lectures 

from Moscow into the Berkeley Intermediate Russian Classroom

Laura Mieka Erley: Petersburg Online

Michael Huffmaster: The Uses of Poetry in Second-Year German

2007 – 2008

Sept      Talk: Language Ecology in Practice, Implications for Foreign Language Education

Claire Kramsch

Oct      Talk: Using Assessment for Understanding and Improving Language Education

        John Norris

Nov      Panel

Nikolaus Euba: Assessment and Articulation through Language Portfolios

Sirpa Tuomainen: Authentic Assessment – an Alternative or an Addition?

Sarah Roberts: An Alternative to Traditional Peer Editing

Marilyn Seid-Rabinow: Insights Gained from Oral English Proficiency Testing

Mark Kaiser, Lisa Little: Computer-based Chapter Tests: A Formative Approach

Dec      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Clelia Donovan: Reevaluating and Restructuring the Portuguese Language 

Curriculum

Mirando Kentfield: Responding to Characters: A Study of French Learners’ 

Interpretive Skills and Affective Responses to Literature

Robert Adler-Peckerar: Cultural and Communicative Competence in Yiddish:  

Strategies for Teaching a Non-territorial Language

Lyn Scott: Education: Designing Instruction for English Learners from an 

Ecological Perspective of Language Learning

Jan      Talk: Pedagogical Workshop on Literacy-based Language Teaching

Richard Kern

Feb      Talk: Meaning and Feeling: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Affect

Jay Lemke

Mar      Talk: The script Encoding Initiative and Language Teaching and Scholarship for 

Minority and Historic Languages on the Web

Deborah Anderson

Apr      Talk: The Question of Competences in Language Socialization Research: An Analysis of

Rehearsals in Children’s Religious and Ritual Practice

Patricia Baquedano-Lopez

May      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Amelia Barili: Learning to Learn: Neurobiology and Cognitive Science as a Basis 

of Autonomous Learning Principles and Applications

Jennifer Gipson: Innovating Tradition: Folklore, Literature, and Translingual and 

Transcultural Competence

Julia McAnallen: Reconciling with the Unavoidable: Assessing the Impact of 

Advertising on the Russian Language

2008 – 2009

Sept      Talk: Introducing the BLC’s Library of Foreign Language Film Clips: Modeling

Language and Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom

Mark Kaiser 

Sept      Talk: A Brief History of the Universe of Foreign Language Education: or, Dirty Little 

Secrets

Peter Patrikis

Oct      Talk: American Students Abroad: Negotiation or Difference?

Celeste Kinginger

Nov      Panel: Digital Storytelling

Joe Lambert, Mark Evan Nelson 

Dec      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Desiree Pries: Translingual/Transcultural Competence: An Operational 

Approach to the MLA report

Jillian Porter: Filmmaking and Foreign Language Instruction

Jason Vivrette: Crossing the Bridge: Shifting Perspectives on and 

in First-Year Turkish through Film

Jan      Talk: Introducing the BLC’s Library of Foreign Language Film Clips: Modeling 

Language and Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom

Mark Kaiser

Feb      Talk: When is West? Talking and Thinking about Time and Space

Alice Gaby

Mar      Talk: Everybody’s Usage: The Politics of Grammar in the Hispanofonia

Jose del Valle

Mar      Talk: New Perspectives on Study Abroad Research: Goals, Variables, and Methods

James Coleman

Apr      Talk: Hillbilly Spanish and Tarzan English: Ideologies of Mexican Immigrant Language

Stanton Wortham

May     Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Kristin Dickinson: Literacy in First-Year Turkish: A Multi-Voiced Approach

Adam Mendelson: Online Communication in Beginning Spanish Instruction

Junghee Park: ‘Reading’ TV: Graphic Overtitles in Korean TV Shows

Jun      Workshop: Teaching Language and Culture with Film

Marilyn Fabe: The Language of Film

Mark Kaiser: Teaching with Film Clips

Anne-Christine Rice: Implementing a Curriculum Built Around FilmSabine Levet: Cross-Cultural Comparison through Film

Rick Kern: Making Connections between Film and Literacy

Thomas J. Garza: Film as (Con)Text: Using Visual Media in Russian Language 

and Culture Classes

2009 – 2010

Sept      Talk: Introducing the BLC’s Library of Foreign Language Film Clips: Modeling 

Language and Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom

Mark Kaiser

Sept      Panel: Tricky Points – Creative Solutions

Santoukht Mikaelian, Malgosia Szudelski, Karma Ngodup

Oct      Talk: From Texting to Tweeting: The Brave New World of Internet Linguistics

David Crystal

Nov      Talk: Language, Tourism and Banal Globalization

Crispin Thurlow

Dec      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Galen Sibanda: Teaching Zulu Language and Culture Through Film

Jessica Rasheeda Williams: Facebook and Creating Community for Beginning to 

Intermediate Italian Language Learners

Heather McMichael: Laboratorio en Movimiento: Using Blogs to Teach Spanish 4

Jan      Talk: Introducing the BLC’s Library of Foreign Language Film Clips: Modeling 

Language and Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom

Mark Kaiser

Feb      Talk: Communicating Grammatically: Evaluating a Learner Strategies Website for 

Spanish Grammar

Andrew Cohen

Mar      Talk: The Representation of Language in the Earliest Writing Systems

Jerrold Cooper

Apr      Talk: How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think

Lera Boroditsky

Apr      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Anna Maria Bellezza: Teaching Italian through Theatre: A Performative

Approach

Minsook Kim: Developing a Curriculum for Korean Heritage Language Learners 

through Individualized, Learner-oriented Multimedia Projects

Usree Bhattacharya: New Direction: Bloggingin SL/FL Classrooms

Jason Vivrette: Cultivating Awareness: Register and Context in First-Year Arabic

JunWorkshop: Clipping the Curriculum: Integrating Clips into the Foreign Language 

Classroom

Mark Kaiser: Language Learning & Teaching

2010 – 2011

Sept     Talk: Introducing the BLC’s Library of Foreign Language Film Clips: Modeling 

Language and Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom

Mark Kaiser

Sept      Talk: Teaching without Books or Photocopies

Deborah Brooks

Oct      Talk: Pesky Pronouns and Pusillanimous Publishers: Some Reflections on the Practice 

and Business of Literary Translation

David Dollenmayer

Nov      Talk: The Ecology of the Foreign-Language Literature Classroom: Complexity theory as 

a Model for Pedagogy

Glenn Levine

Dec      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Hephzibah Sunkari: Curriculum Model Development for 1st Year Telugu

William Allen Heidenfeld: A Genre-Based Approach to the Writing Process

Traci Speed Lindsey: Utilization Bulgarian Audio and Video Media in the 1st 

Year Classroom

Feb      Talk: Language Development in an Urban Migrant Community: Turkish/German/English 

of Children and Adolescents in Berlin

Carol Pfaff

Feb      Talk: Teaching Pragmatics in the L2 Classroom

Andrew Cohen

Mar      Talk: What Makes an Ideal Hybrid Language Learner

Robert Blake

Apr      Talk: Arabic: A More Commonly Taught Less Commonly

Roger Allen

Apr      Talk: New Media and Literacy in Transnational Environments

Eva Lam

May      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Mara Mauri Jacobsen: Language and Culture in Documentaries by Italian Women 

Filmmakers

Lucas Straton: Russian Phonetics: Sound and Meaning in Russian Avant-Garde 

Poetry

Wakae Kambara: Teaching Japanese Pragmatic Competence using Film Clips

2011-2012

Sept      Colloquium: History and Memory in Foreign Language Study

James Wertsch: Texts of Memory and Texts of History

Williams Hanks: Linguistic Conversion and the Making of Colonial Yucatec Maya

Yuri Slezkine: The Joys and Challenges of Teaching “One’s Own” History

Ryuko Kubota: Memories of War: Critical Content-based Instruction (CBI) in 

Japanese via Exploring Victim-Offender Perspectives

Glenn Levine: The Study of Second Language Literary Texts at the Nexus of 

Multiple Histories

Lihua Zhang, Jaleh Pirnazar, Niko Euba (Respondents)

Sept      Talk: Identifying with Language

Barbara Johnstone

Oct      Colloquium: Moving Between Languages: Research Perspectives

Claire Kramsch (Opening remarks)

Elizabeth Boner: Negotiating Relationship through Translation: How America 

Development Practitioners and Tanzanian Beneficiaries Exploit the Gap 

between Languages

Tim Wolcott: American in Paris: Myth, Desire, and Subjectivity in Student 

Accounts of Study Abroad in France

David Malinowski: How Do you Move Between Languages When You’ve Got  

Nobody? Lessons from Online French Lessons at Berkeley

Oct      Talk: Rethinking Prescriptivism

Douglas Kibbee

Nov      Talk: Building a 10,000 Year Archive of All Human Languages

Laura Welcher

Dec      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Letizia Allais: Third Place in the French Classroom: A Separate Space for a New 

Beginning?

Sirpa Tuomainen: Every Object Tells a Story: Searching for Finnishness among 

Bay Area Finns

Rosaria Carbotti: Resistere!: Film Language and Political Discourse in 

Contemporary Italy

Maya Smith: Teaching Intertextuality and Recontextualization through Music

Feb      Talk: Language in Film and the Language of Film: Two Semiotic  Systems Engaged

Mark Kaiser, Rosella Carbotti

Mar      Talk: The Place of Translation in Higher Education

Mairi McLaughlin

Apr      Talk: Teaching as a Subversive Activity—Revisited

H. Douglas Brown

May      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Letizia Allais: Third Place in the French Classroom: A Separate Space for a New 

Beginning? 

Daniel Aaron Brooks: Language and History through Silent Film in the Foreign 

Language Classroom

Jonatan Haddad: The Parrot’s Two Feet: Teaching French in Contact with Arabic

Jennifer Johnson: Re-articulating Culture in a Place In-between: Exploring the 

Multimodal Experiences of Hearing Mothers of Deaf Children

2012-2013

Sept     Talk: Where is the Language Classroom Today?: Reconsidering the Place/s of Language 

Learning with Technology

David Malinowski

Oct      Talk: Enhancing Human Capital? Language and the Neoliberal University

Marnie Holborow

Oct      Panel: Exploring Service Learning in Foreign Language Teaching

Victoria Robinson, Suzan Akin (Intro)

Josef Hellebrandt: Service-Learning in German: A Win-Win for Students and 

Community Participants

Amelia Barili: Building Nurturing Communities: Service Learning in Spanish 

Language and Culture Courses

Suwako Watanabe: Japanese/Chinese Community-based Learning Course at PSU

Nov      Talk: Language Teaching and SLA: Understanding the Limits and Possibilities of the 

Research-teaching Interface

Lourdes Ortega

NovFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Ellen Langer: Teaching Czech Language through Cultural Media: Creating a 

Course Curriculum

Juan Caballero: Integrating Film as Language, as Culture, as a Medium and as 

Discourse Genre across a Foreign-Language Writing Curriculum Marco Purpura: The World in an Ad: Learning Italian through TV Commercials

Mar      Talk: The Language of Neoliberalism: Metaphors and Ideology

Marnie Holborow

Apr      Talk: Languaging and Linguistic Exostructures: Aligning Cultural-historical, Ecological, 

and Distributed Approaches to L2 Development

Steve Thorne

MayFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Corey Bynes: Putting the Literary Back in Literary Chinese: Incorporating 

Analysis and Interpretation into Literary Chinese Pedagogy

Erin Coyne: Ethnic Minorities of the Russian Federation: How Diversity has 

Shaped Russophone CultureJaran Shin: History and Memory: Teaching History in the English Language 

Development Classroom

Maria Vendetti: Non-Hexagonal Francophone Culture: Rethinking Transcultural 

Competencies in the French Language Classroom

2013-2014

Sept     Talk: Voices and Agencies: Discursive Foundations for Socialization in Heritage 

Language Speaking Households

Agnes He

Oct      Talk: Piecemeal But Promising:  Technology Integration in Secondary Language 

Classrooms

Paige Ware

Nov      Talk: Hyperpolyglottery as an Emerging Multilingualism

Michael Erard

Dec      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Katya Balter: Have you Heard that One About…?:  Russian Language and 

Culture through the Anekdot

Cammeron Girvin: Uniting the BCS Classroom with Folkloric Language

Marco Prina: Interweaving Italian Language and Culture through Historically

Distant Memories

Chen-hui Tsai: UCB Online Chinese Placement Test: Improvements, 

Implementations and Impediments

Jan      Talk: Teaching Romance Languages Through Intercomprehension: Networking Hearts 

and Minds in the Language Classroom

Clorinda Donato

FebColloquium: The Legitimacy Gap: Multilingual / Multicultural Language Teachers in 

Monolingual Foreign Language Departments

Claire Kramch: The Legitimacy Gap: Native Language Teachers in an Era of 

Globalization

Camilla Zamboni: The Importance of BridgingInez Hollander: In the Dutch Mountains: Pedagogical Ironies when Teaching 

Dutch on an American University campus

Byron Barahona: Self-censorship in Teaching Languages

Santoukht Mikaelin: A Biographical Testimony on my Experience Teaching my 

Native Language and Culture at an American UniversityShulian Hsu: Teaching Culture in my Chinese Language Class

Edwin Okong’o: Challenges of Teaching African Languages in the United States

Florence Miquel: Culture and Morals: The Issue of Self-censorship in a French 

Language CourseJanh Tran: The Language of Silent Objects: From Antique Collection to Language 

Teaching

Mar      Talk: Linguistic Landscape: A Tool for Documenting, Analyzing and Contesting Societies

and their Complexities

Elana Shohamy

Apr      Talk: Multiannual Inequality: What Narratives Reveal about Social Segmentation and

Academic Success in two European Crossroads of Migration

Katharina Brizic

MayFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Kimberly Vinall: Got Llorona?: Reflections on the Potential to Develop Learners’ 

Symbolic Competence in the Language and Culture Classroom

Erik Born: Digital Textbooks: Emerging trends and practicesYasuko Konno Baker, Noriko Komatsu Wallace: Developing an Online Placement 

Test for the UCB Japanese Program

2014-2015

Sept     Talk: Digital Social Reading: Textual Interpretation as Collaborative Activity

Carl Blyth

Oct      Talk: Linguistic Contributions to Native California Language Teaching

Andrew Garrett

Nov      Talk: Teaching World Languages in the High School Context: Realities, Challenges and

Aspirations

Don Doehla, Nancy Salsig

DecFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Donna Southard: Memoria Historica: A Film Module for Intermediate Spanish

Sherry Hicks: ASL Pedagogy: A Further Exploration of Deaf Culture Within the 

ASL Curriculum

Marina Romani: Italian in Performance: Opera as a Holistic Framework for 

Language Pedagogy

Jan      Talk: Speech and Thought Presentation in French

Sophie Marnette

Feb      Principles and Practices of Translation and Interpretation in the Multilingual European 

Union

Javier Hernandez Saseta: The Interpretation Service: Mission and working 

methods. The work of the interpretersDirk Stockmans: The Translation Service: Mission and working methods. The 

work of translators

Javier Hernandez Saseta, Alexander Drechsel: Overview of multilingual support 

tools for Interpreters

Dirk Stockmans: Overview of multilingual support tools for Interpreters

Mar      Talk: The Multilingual/Multicultural Challenge in Language Education

Nathalie Auger

Apr     ClaireFest!: A Tribute to the Scholarship, Teaching, and Mentorship of Professor Claire

Kramsch

Dorothy Chun: Developing Language Teachers’ Symbolic Competence

Chantelle Warner: Whose Game are We Playing? Foreign Language Literacy

Steve Thorne: The Ecology of L2 Development in Quotidian Mobile Technology 

Contexts

Michelle Baptiste: What it Means to (Be)come American: An Analysis of English 

Writing Test for Naturalization Applicants

Glenn Levine, Alison Phipps: Communicative Language Teaching and Language 

under Duress: Global Contexts for Language Pedagogy

Jennifer Johnson: The Multilingual as Multimodal

Robert Train: ‘Leave Behind the Naive Paradise…’: Multilingual Historical 

Bodies of the Non-native Speaker

Meg Gebhard: Language, Power, and the Development of Disciplinary Textual 

Practices

Nelleke Van Deusen: Heritage Learning in a Distance Environment: Creating a 

Community of Practice

MayFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Yasuko Baker, Noriko Wallace: Developing an Online Placement Test (OPT) 

for the Japanese

Karen Moller: Teaching Cultural Literacy Through Visual Art

Chloe Kitzinger: Intermediate Russian Through History and Literature

Margot Szarke: Thinking-Writing

May      Workshop: Linguistic Landscape 7 Questioning Boundaries, Opening Spaces Advancing 

New Topics, Methods and Applications

Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, Claire Kramsch (Welcome)

Leanne Hinton, Susan Moffat, Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, Claire Kramsch (Plenary)

Questioning Borders in the LL

Francesco Screti: (Re)writing Galicia: Boundaries in Imagined Spaces

Jeffrey Kallen: Different Borders, Different Landscapes and the Irish 

Political Border

DominikGerst, Maria Klessmann, Korsun: Multilingualism and Linguistic 

Demarcations in Border Regions: The ‘Linguistic borderscape’ of 

the German-Polish Twin cities Frankfurt (Oder)-Slubice

Foundational questions, new directions: Language  vitality in multilingual settings

Shereen Bhalla, Terrence Wiley: Linguistic Landscape and language 

vitality: Investigating the Hindi communities in Northern Virginia

LiLiu, Terrence Wiley: Linguistic Landscape and language vitality: The 

case of Chinese communities in southern Maryland

Peter De Costa, Hima Rawal: Landscaping a Midwestern Nepalese 

linguistic community from the inside

Expanding Methodologies in LL Studies

Monica Barni, Carla Bagna, Sabrina Machetti: Historical and synchronic 

dimensions of LL in Italy: What methodologies are appropriate?

Susan Price: One size fits all?: Method and madness in the LL

William Amos: Living, working, belonging in the imagined ethnic 

zone: The linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Liverpool, UK

Then, now, and then: LL analyses across time

Robert Blackwood: Diachronic change in the contemporary LL: A return 

to Rennes and Perpignan

Hirut Woldemariam: Linguistic landscape as a standing historical 

testimony: The case of Ethiopia

Mieke Vandenbroucke: Displacing gentrification: A diachronic case-study 

of language and multilingualism in Brussels’ Quartier Dansaert

Ideology and agency in multilingual schoolscapes

Steve Przymus: A Tale of Two Tuscons: The language of street signs and 

classroom instruction

Tamás Péter Szabo, Petteri Laihonen: Where agency takes place: 

Schoolscapes in Finland and in Hungary

Anne Golden, Elizabeth Lanza: Linguistic Landscape in a Norwegian 

Multilingual classroom of 2014/2014

Hearing the unspoken, seeing the unseen in the LL

David Karlander: Road signs revisited: Looking beyond inscription

Kimi Hanauer, David Ian Hanauer, Lee Heinemann: Experiencing the 

Alloverstreet event: Arts-based research on participatory linguistic 

landscapes

Jackie Jia Lou, Chun Kwok Wong, Hin Yan Wong: Imagining place 

through linguistic landscape: Silent signs of resistance in Nga Tsin Wai Village, Hong Kong

Linguistic landscape and propaganda

Cammeron Girvin: Eastern-bloc propaganda signs and the problem of 

‘authenticity’

Anastassia Zabrodskaja: Kalevipoeg and Emelja on signs: 

Questioning cultural borders in Estonia

Elana Shohamy, Shoshana Waksman: Introducing a new municipal LL 

system in tourist areas of Tel Aviv-Jaffa

Activating meaning-making in the LL: Literary and language learning

Cassie Leymarie: Language, literacy, and refugee resettlement

Olga Bever, Diane Richardson: Defining linguistic landscapes as a 

tool for languages and literacy education

David Malinowski: Juxtaposing spaces: A postmodern approach to 

language learning in the linguistic landscape

Diversity or segregation?: Seeing plural identities in the LL

Erozan, Hidiroglu: Linguistic landscape trip to Pyla

Deborah Dubiner: On identity and the LL of a Druze town in Israel

History and memorialization in linguistic landscape studies

Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Miriam Ben-Rafael: LL as symbolic construction of 

the public space: Memorial in the Bavarian Quarter

Elizabeth Lanza, Unn Royneland: Memorials, multilingualism, and 

multiculturalism in Norway

Yael Guilat, Espinosa-Ramirez: The Historical Memory Law and its role 

in the redesign of the semiotic cityscapes in Spain: The Granada 

case study

Reimagining Linguistic Landscape, from the ground up

Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost: ‘Mind the gap’ - The linguistic landscape, 

the semiotic landscape and language display: Aims, methods and  

meaning

Anna Danielewicz-Betz: Situational and temporal emplacement of signs in 

(global) language landscapes

Sune Vork Steffensen: Linguistic landscapes as ecological niches: A 

conceptual and methodological reconceptualization of LLS

Online Linguistic Landscapes

Esther Ni Dhonnacha, Karen Wade, Jeffrey Kallen: Online linguistic 

landscapes: Discourse, globalization, and enregisterment

Rachel Burdin: Exploring the (virtual) linguistic landscape of Kazimierz

Robert Troyer: Online sites of engagement: A justification of webspaces as 

linguistic landscapes

Languages across spaces: Multiple si(gh)tings in LL research

MatthiasWolny: Differentiation of the urban space: Linguistic diversity in 

the linguistic landscape of Venice

Jhonni Rochelle Charisse Carr: Comparing Koreatowns: The linguistic 

landscape of the K-Towns of Los Angeles & Mexico City

Maimu Berezkina: Multilingualism in progress?: A diachronic study of 

language policy in the virtual public space

Consuming signs and objects

Mairi McLaughlin: Orienting the linguistic landscape: Ramadan 

advertising in Dakar

Adam Jaworski: Language objects, art and consumer culture

Gilles Baro: Chronoscape of inner-city Johannesburg: A semiotic 

landscape analysis of post-apartheid urban development

Judging and contesting diversity in/through the LL

Maria Dimitrova Stoicheva: City multilingualism: Between bonds and 

barriers

Greg Niedt: New neighbors: The evolution of attitudes towards a changing 

linguistic landscape in Philadelphia

Elwira Sobkowiak: Multilingual signs and endangered language 

revitalization efforts. Presence of written language in public 

spaces and language attitudes. Case of Nahuatl in Mexico

Roundtable: Reflections on Practice

LeeAbraham: Integrating the Linguistic Landscape in 

Technology-mediated Environments for Language Learning and 

Teaching

JessicaAdams, Emily Linares: Questioning Boundaries: Towards a 

Unified Framework of ‘(virtual) Linguistic Landscapes’

Will Amos: Quantitative 2.0: Re-evaluation g the worth of empirical sign 

counts and introducing the ‘big data’ corpus

Robert Blackwood: Multilingualism and memorialization: starting the 

debate

Louisa Buckingham: Linguistic landscapes and methodological 

issues/political activism

JenniferBurton, Clark: English as a street language: Teaching ESL with 

the linguistic landscape

Laura Callahan: Spanish in the linguistic landscape of museums in 

California and New York: A resource for heritage language 

learners and students of translation

Jhonni Rochelle Charisse Carr: Reflecting on Koreatowns: The Linguistic 

Landscape of the K-Towns of Los Angeles & Mexico City

Bumyong Choi, Hakyoon Lee: ‘Seoul Korea, Mexico City, and Takorea.’ 

Geolocation Linguistic Landscape Project in University Korean 

Language Classes

Deborah Dubiner: The challenging task of interviewing shop owners

Cammeron Girvin: Toward an ethical treatment of history in the LL: 

‘Post-memory’ narratives in a southern American town

Hammons: How Does Berkeley Mean

Asako Hayashi-Takakura: A sample of teaching Chinese characters (kanji) 

with linguistic landscape for heritage language learners of 

Japanese

LourdesHernández-Martin: In a certain place in London. Cityscape in 

Spanish

Jeffrey Kallen, Deirdre Dunlevy, Olga Balaeva: Contextualising units in 

the Linguistic Landscape - How should data be framed?

DavidKarlander: Mobility, emptiness, and the meaning of absence: 

integrating semiotic ‘blank spots’ in the LL Framework

Genevieve Leung, Jackie Knitter: Art and linguistic landscapes: A look at 

the Chinatowns of San Francisco and Washington D.C.

Li Liu, Terrence Wiley: Using LL Analysis to Enhance Student Learning: 

Examples from China

Kate Lyons: Quantifying the Linguistic Landscape - Reflections on 

Inferential Analyses

Hiram Maxim: Raising methodological awareness among study abroad 

participants: Reflections from a student-driven linguistic 

landscape research project

Susan Price: Out With the Old, In With the New?: Not So Fast!

Elyse Ritchey: The history of street names in southern France

Barbara Soukup: The role of the ‘recipient’ in LL research: Notes from the 

project ‘English in the linguistic landscape of Vienna, Austria’ 

(ELLViA)

Hirut Woldemariam: Methodological challenges in conducting LL 

research

Anastassia Zabrodskaja: Language representation on a sign

Reading the past on the streets today: History, heritage, archive

Rolf Kailuweit: A historical linguistic landscape - Barcelona (1836-38): 

Much ado about the use of Catalan in public space

Elyse Ritchey: Caught between heritage and utility: Bilingual 

French-Occitan street names

Robert Train: Connecting visual presents to archival pasts in multilingual 

California: Towards historical depth in linguistic landscape

Protest and transformation

Aaron Lee Anfinson: The writing on the wall: The Umbrella Movement, 

language, and revolution

Rani Rubdy: A multimodal analysis of the graffiti commemorating the 

26/11 Mumbai terror attacks: Constructing self-understandings of 

a senseless violence

Melissa Curtin: The semiotic landscape of Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower student 

movement’: Examining the transbordering dynamics of situated 

linguistic landscaping

Visibility and readership in new spaces

Barbara Soukup: English in the linguistic landscape of Vienna, Austria 

(ELLVIA): Outline and rationale of a new project

KarstenLegère: SUV spare tire covers and Swahili in Dar es Salaam, 

Tanzania

Landscapes of the flesh, body, and self

Linnea Hannell: Navigating the linguistic landscape: On the discursive 

encounters of a new parent

Doris Correa, Elana Shohamy, Camilo Dominguez: Expanding the 

research on commodification of women’s bodies: Internet sites as 

modes of delivery to local and transnational audiences

Struggles of gentrification, citizenship and representation in the LL

E. Dimitris Kitis: Imagining Johannesburg: Mapping placenames and 

their collocates from a newspaper corpus

Stefania Tufi: Linguistic landscapes of urban Italy and the citizenship of 

the everyday

Kate Alexandra Lyons: Signs of the times: Modeling the landscape of 

gentrification

2015-2016

Sept     Panel: Forming Global Citizens: Volunteering Locally and Abroad

Richard Feldman, Maria Luisa Parra, Amelia Barili

Oct      Panel: Why Less-Commonly-Taught Languages are so Important

Mary Steiner, Joi Barrios, Kathryn Klar, Upkar Ubhi

Nov      Workshop: Symbolic Competence: Exploring Ways of Putting the Concept into Practice

Claire Kramsch, Anne Whiteside

DecFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Linda Louie: Beyond Grammar: Revisiting Translation in the Foreign Language 

ClassroomEmily Hellmich: Surveys in Language Teaching and Research: A Personal and 

Professional Journey

Irina Kogel: Teaching Russian Cultural Competence and Listening 

Comprehension through Video Interviews

Feb      Workshop: Performative Competence in Language Teaching: A Practical Workshop

Nikolaus Euba, Anna Maria Bellezza 

Mar      Talk: Developing Symbolic Competence in Modern Language Classrooms: Expanding 

Meaning-Making Potentials

Erin Kearney

Apr      Talk: Technologies and Literacies in Language Education: Looking BeyondCommunicative Competence

Richard Kern

AprFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Keith Budner: Graphic Novels in Foreign Language Learning

Lily Scott: Learning through Art and Visual culture

Jennifer Mackenzie: ‘Italian by Design: A Bridge’ Course

2016-2017

Aug      Talk: The Aesthetic Experience in Process Drama in Second Language Learning: Voice, 

Identity and Intercultural Awareness

Erika Piazzoli

Sept     Talk: Trends in Language Enrollment/Trendy Languages

Dennis Looney

Oct      Talk: Compelling Reading and Problem-Solving: The Easy Way (and the Only Way) to 

High Levels of Languages, Literacy and Life Competence

Stephen Krashen

Nov      Talk: Linguistic Landscape: A Tool for Critical Interpretations of Societies is Moving to

the Classroom

Elana Shohamy

DecFellows Forum:  Instructional Development Research Projects

Giuliana Perco (Lecturer): Blended Learning, Anyone? A path to Designing a 

Hybrid Language Course

Aubrey Gabel: FrancoForniens: Bringing Oral History into the French-Language 

Classroom

Matthew Kendall: Teaching Verbs of Motion through Film in the Intermediate 

Russian Classroom

Feb      Talk: On dwelling in the Linguancene: From Hypomnesic Monolingualism to 

Reactionary Multilingualism

David Gramling

Mar      Talk: Displacement and the Lived Experience of Language, Testimonies from Children 

with Migration Backgrounds in an Austrian School

Brigitta Busch

Apr      Talk: Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures

Juliane House

May      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Ellen Langer: Harnessing the Power of Electronic Media: Incorporating Film in 

the Introductory Czech Curriculum

Jann Ronis: Adding a Robust Cultural Component in Elementary Tibetan

Kathryn Levine: Medieval French in the Modern  French Classroom

Christina Schwartz: Developing Cultural Literacy through Social Media in the 

Russian Language Classroom

2017-2018

Sept     Talk: Learning Spaces: An Introduction to performative pedagogy

Susanne Even

Oct      Talk: Foreign Languages Literacy: Affect, Aesthetics and Ethics

Chantelle Warner

Nov      Talk: Post-Industrial Language Socialization

Elinor Ochs

Dec      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Antje Postema: Cultural Memory in Focus: Designing a Travel? Study Program 

for the Former Yugoslavia

Elyse Ritchey: Teaching French Listening Comprehension and Cultural 

Awareness through Regional Variation

Peng Yin: From Communities of Practice to the Emergence of Thirdness: Voices, 

Identities, and Subject Positions of Chinese International Students in the 

U.S.

Feb      Panel: Panel on Innovative Uses of Media in Language Teaching

David Kyeu, Margot Szarke, Lihua Zhang

Mar      Talk: Genre Awareness and Analysis: A Strategic Tool for Language Learning

Greta Vollmer

Apr      Talk: Mobile Lenses on Learning

Mark Pegrum

May      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Denis Ekici: Developing Curricular Materials for Kurdish Language Instruction

Eva Szorke: Highly Varied Proficiency Levels in the Same Classroom — 

Differentiated Instruction as a Means of Effective Language Teaching

Erica Weems: Developing Interpretive Insight `through Reframing Texts

2018-2019

Sept      Talk: Film in the Language Classroom: A Multiliteracies Approach, and Beyond

Mark Kaiser

Oct      Talk: Teaching a Spanish Literature Course Online: A Skeptic’s Experience

Mary Quinn

Nov      Talk: Critical Language Pedagogy: Teaching about Dialect Variation, Identity and 

Power

Amanda Godley

Nov      Fellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Minsook Kim: From a Face-to-Face to Hybrid Intermediate Korean Course

Julia Nee: Zapotec Language Revitalization: What Can be Accomplished with a 

Two-week Summer School?

Vesna Rodic: Towards the Greening of the L2 Classroom: An Example from 

French

Feb      Talk: Experiencing Language, Language Education and Social Justice in Times of 

Violence and Resistance

Robert Train

Mar      Talk: The Multiliteracies Framework and Interpretive Communication: Curricular and

Instructional Perspectives

Kate Paesani

Apr      Talk: Language as Symbolic Power: What’s In It for Foreign Language Teachers?

Claire Kramsch

MayFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Amelia Barili: Building Bridges Across Cultures: Intercultural Service Learning

Junghee Park: Developing a Hybrid Intermediate Korean Language Course: 

Goals, Models, Results

Claire Tourmen: Representing a Foreign Culture: Culture Learning During Study 

Abroad

Kijoo Ko: Developing the Online Korean Placement (Phase II): Norming Test, 

Analysis, Revision and Addition of Test Items

2019-2020

Sept     Talk: Music: The Universal Language?

Charles Limb

Oct      Talk: How Language Centers Thrive: Notes from the Field

Rosemary Feal

Nov      Talk: Sloganization in Language EducationDiscourse: Conceptual Thinking in the Age 

of Academic Marketization

Barbara Schmenk

DecFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Weisi Cai: Understanding China through the Media: Teaching Advanced Chinese 

with Multimedia Materials

Dmetri Hayes: Teaching Karuk and YurokOnline: A Story of Pain and Healing

Dominick Lawton: From Poetry to Memes: PoeticCitation in Russian Language 

and Culture

Kathryn Pribble: ‘Zhili-Byli…’: Russian Folklore in the Intermediate Language 

Classroom

Feb      Talk: ‘Machine Translation is a lot like Booze’: Language Instructors’ Beliefs about

Machine Translation

Emily Hellmich, Kimberly Vinall

Mar      Talk: Crossing Institutional Borders: A Collaborative Study in Pragmatics Between 

University Students and a Settlement Organization (CANCELED)

Julie Kerekes

Apr      Talk: On Butterflies, Onions, and Surfers: How Language Teaching Can Save the 

World

Glenn Levine

MayFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Jhonni Carr: Using the Language Around Us: Teaching Spanish Linguistics with 

Urban Signage

Jason Vivrette: Towards a Trans-Anatolian Pedagogy: Traversing Invisible 

Turkish-Kurdish Landscapes Through Film

Emily Linares: Literacy en français and à la française: Socializing Students to 

Academic Literacy Practices in a Foreign Language

2020-2021

Sept      Talk: Un-Boxing Gender: Toward Trans-Affirming L2 Pedagogies

Kris Knisely

OctTalk: Anniversary Panel for L2 Journal: What Should Be the Knowledge Base of Foreign 

Language Teachers in Higher Education?

Margot Szarke, Dominick Lawton, Ignacio Navarrete, Minsook Kim, Gabriella 

Licata, Anna Maria Bellezza

Nov      Talk: On Butterflies, Onions, and Surfers: How Language Teaching Can Save the World

Glenn Levine

DecFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Nathalie Khankan: Affective Listening: Towards Tarab in the Arabic Language 

Classroom

Rachel Weiher: A Variationist Approach to Teaching French Phonetics

Kathryn DeWaele: Exploring Representations of Social Identity in Soviet & 

Russian Film

Edwin Ko: ‘The Essence of the Language is in Texts’: Attitudes towards and uses 

of texts in language revitalization

Feb      Talk: The Humanities: What now? What next?

David Laurence

Mar      Talk: Digital Literacies and Synthetic Embodiment: The Ethics of Mimicry on TikTok

Rodney Jones

Apr      Talk: Reflections on Teaching the Conflicts in Foreign Language Classes

Rutie Adler, Annamaria Bellezza, Chika Shibahara, Lihua Zhang, Mark Kaiser

(Moderator)

MayFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Laura Sacia Bonicatto: Exploring Culture through Definitions of Words

Ben Beitler: Don’t Throw Them Out! Old Textbooks in the New L2 Classroom

Mariagrazia De Luca: Teaching Italy as a Multicultural Space through Language

2021-2022

Sept     Fellows Forum: Film in the Language Curriculum

Nikolaus Euba, Vesna Rodic, Chika Shibahara, Donna Southard, Jason Vivrette, 

Lihua Zhang

Oct      Panel: Study Abroad in a Post-Pandemic World

Robert Blake (Moderator)

Dan Davidson: Exploring Second Language Learning in the Virtual Study Abroad 

Contest

Glenn Levine: Study Abroad, Interrupted: Opportunities and Challenges of 

(Post-) Pandemic Times

Kim Morris: Getting Back Abroad and Why it Matters for L2 Pragmatic 

Development

Vivian Lee Nyitray: I’ve a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore

Cristina Sanz, Gorka Basterretxea Santiso: Has the Pandemic Changed What 

Matters for Students Planning to Study Abroad?

Sonia Shiri: Virtual Study Abroad During the Pandemic and Beyond

NovTalk: Moving Beyond Product, Process, or Genre: A Design Orientation to L2 Writing 

Instruction

Heather Allen Willis

DecFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Nora Melnikova: Course Innovation of Hindi 102A (Readings in Modern Hindi 

Literature)

Raksit Lau-Preechathammarach: Developing a Toolkit for Language 

Revitalization: An Interactive Meeramuni Website

Karen Llagas: Proverbs & the Role of Image-Making and Word-Play in the 

Filipino Language Classroom 

Karina Palau: Beyond Bilingual: Translanguaging Experiments in a Reading & 

Composition (R&C) Course at an Aspiring Hispanic-Serving Institution

JanTalk: Academic Podcasting, Public Scholarship, and Professional Networks

Stacey Margarita Johnson

FebWorkshop: Producing Podcasts in the Classroom

Keith Hernandez, Kimberly Vinall

FebPanel: Do You Speak Translate? A Conversation about Machine Translation and 

Language Education

Claire Kramsch, Emily Hellmich, Kimberly Vinall

FebPanel: Translating Google Translate into Classroom Practices

Claire Knowles, Jason Jolley, Luciane Maimone, Laurence Denié-Higney, Vera 

Klekovkina, Young Ae Kim, Jieun Ryu

MarTalk: From Disrupted Classrooms to Human-Machine Collaboration? The Pocket 

Calculator, Google Translate, and the Future of Language Education

Per Urlaub, Eva Dessein

David Gramling, Laura Sterponi (Respondents)

AprTalk: Critical Race Pedagogy for Antiracist, Equity-Minded, and Inclusive Language 

Teaching

Uju Anya

AprFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Sabrina Jaszi: The Soviet 1960s: A Multiliteracies-Based Approach to 

Second-Year Russian

 Gabriella Licata: Designing a Language-Specific Course in Raciolinguistics

Zhonghua Wang: Breaking Boundaries: Global Perspectives, Digital 

Humanities-Inflected Pedagogy and the Teaching of Italian History 

and Literature

2022-2023

SeptRoundtable: Film in the Language/Culture Curriculum

Cristina Farronato, Amir Effat, Nataliia Goshylyk, Mark Kaiser, Minsook Kim, Karen Llagas, Nora Melnikova, Giuliana Perco 

OctTalk: Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of 

Whiteness Applied Linguistics

Jonathan Rosa

NovPanel: The Berkeley Language Center - Taking Stock Remembering the 

Past and Envisioning the Future

Claire Kramsch, David Szanton, Alan Timberlake, Rick Kern, Mark Kaiser, Kimberly Vinall, Emily Hellmich 

NovTalk:From Research on Sociocultural Linguistics to Critical Literacy for Language 

Education

Claudia Holguin Mendoza

DecFellows Forum: Instructional Development Research Projects

Amel Belguith: North African Arabic Language Course

Natalya Nielsen: Imagined Nordic Communities: Critical Conversations about 

Race in Nordic Language Studies

Jan Workshop: The Grammar of Film:  A Primer for World Language Teachers

Mark Kaiser, Maya Sidhu

FebTalk:  Mixed-Heritage Individuals: Rewriting Narratives of  Racial, Linguistic and 

Cultural Deficiency

Aurora Tsai

Mar Talk: Language as Assemblage

Alastair Pennycook

Apr Talk: ‘Applied Linguistic Anthropology’ in Action:  Language & Social Justice Projects 

and Praxis

Netta Avineri, Patricia Baquedano-López

AprFellows Forum:Instructional Development Research Projects

Chi Leung Chan: Learning Mandarin and Cantonese in Health Communication 

Contexts

Simo Cocco: Designing an Instructor’s Guide to Introducing Gender Neutral 

Grammar in Italian Language Class

Semyon Leonenko: Channeling Fluency: YouTube Interviews in the Advanced 

Russian Classroom

Ahmad Rashid Salim: Tongue-Tied and Heart-Bound: Re-Placing Persian in 

Afghanistan

2023-2024

SeptRoundtable: Summer 2023 Fellows: Film in the Language/Culture CurriculumMark Kaiser & Maya Sidhu: IntroductionAmbika Athreya, Myrna Douzjian, Nathalie Khankan, David Kyeu, Natalya 

Nielsen, Oksana Willis

OctTalk: Arrival: Essential Background Information and Strategies for Language Instructors 

in the Age of Human-Like Language Technologies (Machine Translation and Large 

Language Models)

Joel Walsh

Workshop: Creating Instructional Materials to Develop AI Literacies

Joel Walsh

NovTalk: Toward Justice in Study Abroad, Intercultural Learning, and Language Education

Janice McGregor

DecFellows Forum:Instructional Development Research Projects

Nataliia Goshylyk, Claire Tourmen, Yesenia Blanco

FebTalk: Towards a Pedagogy of Transculturality

Glynda Hull, Catherine Park

FebTalk: Supporting Language Learning for Neurodiverse Students in 

Classroom Settings

Judit Kormos

March Talk: Sparking the Imagination: Creative Connectivity and Emotional 

Investment in Language Learning

Simon Coffey

AprilFellows Forum:Instructional Development Research Projects

Cristina Farronato, Oliver Whitmore, Caroline Godard

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