Each semester, BLC Fellows present their instructional development research projects to the campus community. This page houses recordings of the Fellows Forums from the past three years.
AY 2023-2024
Spring 2024
Untranslatability and Transposition: Enhancing Italian Language Learning through the Challenges of Translation
Cristina Farronato, Lecturer, Italian Studies
De-centering the Native Speaker in the L2 Creative Writing Classroom
Caroline Godard, Graduate Student, French
Raising Awareness of Contemporary Occitan among Learners of French
Oliver Whitmore, Graduate Student, French
Fall 2023
Building Classes in Languages for Professional Purposes: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices
Claire Tourmen, Lecturer, Department of French
Learning the Language of the Contemporary Ukrainian Society Through Films
Nataliia Goshylyk, PhD, Lecturer in Ukrainian, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Heritage Language Classroom: A Module on Language Ideologies
Yesenia Blanco, Graduate Student, Spanish & Portuguese
AY 2022-2023
Spring 2023
Learning Mandarin and Cantonese in Health Communication Contexts
Chi Leung Chan, Lecturer, East Asian Languages & Cultures
Designing an Instructor’s Guide to Introducing Gender Neutral Grammar in Italian Language Class
Simo Cocco, Graduate Student, Italian Studies
Channeling Fluency: YouTube Interviews in the Advanced Russian Classroom
Semyon Leonenko, Graduate Student, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Tongue-Tied and Heart-Bound: Re-Placing Persian in Afghanistan
Ahmad Rashid Salim, Graduate Student, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Fall 2022
North African Arabic Language Course
Amel Belguith, Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Imagined Nordic Communities: Critical Conversations about Race in Nordic Language Studies
Natalya Nielsen, Graduate Student, Scandinavian
AY 2021-2022
Spring 2022
The Soviet 1960s: A Multiliteracies-Based Approach to Second-Year Russian
Sabrina Jaszi, Graduate Student, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Designing a Language-Specific Course in Raciolinguistics
Gabriella Licata, Graduate Student, Spanish & Portuguese
Breaking Boundaries: Global Perspectives, Digital Humanities-Inflected Pedagogy and the Teaching of Italian History and Literature
Zhonghua Wang, Graduate Student, Italian Studies
Fall 2021
Course Innovation of Hindi 101A (Readings in Modern Hindi Literature)
Nora Melnikova, Lecturer, South & Southeast Asian Studies
Developing a Toolkit for Language Revitalization: An Interactive Meeramuni Website
Raksit Lau-Preechathammarach, Graduate Student, Linguistics
Proverbs & the Role of Image-Making and Word-Play in the Filipino Language Classroom
Karen Llagas, Lecturer, South & Southeast Asian Studies
Beyond Bilingual: Translanguaging Experiments in a Reading & Composition Course at an Aspiring Hispanic Serving Institution
Karina Palau, Lecturer, Comparative Literature