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 Mind
Daniel Shanahan

No     

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 LearnerMeryl 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 of Exile
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? Native Speakers 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 FORFUM: 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 Film
Sabine 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: Blogging in SL/FL Classrooms
Jason Vivrette: Cultivating Awareness: Register and Context in First-Year Arabic

Jun

Workshop: 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     

COLLOUQUIM: 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

Nov

FELLOWS 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

May

FELLOWS 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 Culture
Jaran 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 

Feb

COLLOUQUIM: 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 Bridging
Inez 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 University
Shulian 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 Course
Janh 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 andAcademic Success in two European Crossroads of Migration
Katharina Brizic

May

FELLOWS 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 practices
Yasuko 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

Dec

FELLOWS 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     

Colloquium: 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 Interpreters
Dirk 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
Javier Hernandez Saseta, Alexander Drechsel: Demonstration of IT for Interpreters
Dirk Stockmans: Demostration of IT Tools for Translators
Francisco Garcia Moran: Demonstration of Multilingual Information Systems

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

May

FELLOWS 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     

CONFERENCE: 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
Dominik Gerst, 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
Li Liu, 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 landscape
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
Matthias Wolny: 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
Lee Abraham: Integrating the Linguistic Landscape in Technology-mediated Environments for Language Learning and Teaching
Jessica Adams, 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
Jennifer Burton, 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
Lourdes Hernández-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?
David Karlander: 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
Karsten Legère: 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

Dec

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research Projects
Linda Louie: Beyond Grammar: Revisiting Translation in the Foreign Language Classroom
Emily 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 Beyond Communicative Competence
Richard Kern

Apr

FELLOWS 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

Dec

FELLOWS 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

May

FELLOWS 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 Education Discourse: Conceptual Thinking in the Age of Academic Marketization
Barbara Schmenk

Dec

FELLOWS FORUM: Instructional Development Research ProjectsWeisi Cai: Understanding China through the Media: Teaching Advanced Chinese with Multimedia Materials
Dmetri Hayes: Teaching Karuk and Yurok Online: 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

May

FELLOWS 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

Oct

TALK: 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

Dec

FELLOWS 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)

May

FELLOWS 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