Results in BLC Posts
Posted by John Wuorenmaa on September 15, 2009
Prior research indicates that providing language learners with opportunities to interact with one another through online communication tools can promote positive outcomes such as increased motivation, diversified participation, and improved oral production (Lamy & Hampel, 2007). However, with the exception of Blake’s (2000) suggestion that jigsaw activities are especially effective for promoting negotiation of meaning…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 30, 2009
Introducing the Library of Foreign Language Film Clips: Modeling Language and Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom by Mark Kaiser, Associate Director, Berkeley Language Center, University of California, Berkeley This workshop will begin with a roll out of the LFLFC website and a demonstration of its functionality, using examples from Russian, Japanese, French, and Spanish.…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on January 15, 2009
The 2007 MLA report calls for a reevaluation of our curricula, approaches, and methodologies with the goal of fostering translingual and transcultural competence (TL/TC). Comparing an instrumental view of language learning to a constitutive view, the report outlines specific goals and analytical skills for students. In addition to acquiring functional language abilities, students “are taught…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on January 15, 2009
Filmmaking is a powerful tool for literacy-based language instruction. Elaborating on the New London Group’s findings, Rick Kern shows that a well-rounded literacy-based program should incorporate four basic curricular components: Situated Practice, Overt Instruction, Critical Framing, and Transformed Practice. Situated Practice involves spontaneous communication without metalanguage. Overt Instruction develops metalanguage by introducing linguistic or social…
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 15, 2009
This semester, together with the invaluable input of my colleagues in the Berkeley Language Center, fellow first-year Turkish GSI, Kristin Dickinson, and Mellon Lecturer in Turkish, Ayla Algar, I developed a semester’s worth of activities for Turkish 1A (Elementary Modern Turkish) built around film clips taken from Turkish cinema, with one film clip or sequence…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 3, 2006
Claire Kramsch and the BLC: Her Legacy to Berkeley Language Lecturers Lisa Little, Lecturer of Slavic Languages, Moderator From Across the Copier to the BLC Karen Möller, Scandinavian ‘No’ Doesn’t Always Mean ‘No’ Lihua Zhang, East Asian Languages Looking from the Eifel Tower Through the Brandenburg Gate Towards the Campanile: Claire Kramsch and the…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 28, 2006
Workshop: A Practical Introduction to the Use of Corpora Lecture: Corpus Linguistics and Language Development: Research, Assessment, and Pedagogical Innovation Steven Thorne, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Applied Languages Studies, The Pennsylvania State Univeristy, Pennsylvania Scott Payne, Assistant Director, Center for Language Acquisition for Technology and Research, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania WORKSHOP: In…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 17, 2006
At the Intersection of Internet-Mediated Foreign Language Education and Learner Corpus Analysis by Julie Belz, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and German, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency and Education Research, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania Corpus-based approaches to linguistic analysis…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 18, 2005
Grammar & Politics in the Language Classroom moderated by Sonia S’hiri, Lecturer of Arabic Panel of Respondents Sarah Roberts, French Hatem Bazian, Arabic Jaleh Pirnazar, Persian Yoko Hasegawa, Japanese Sam Mchombo, African Languages Are you the kind of instructor who takes great care in keeping politics of all sorts outside the language classroom or are…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on January 9, 2004
NB: accompanying lecture slides and audio are forthcoming. Language Ecology Course Information, Syllabus, Reading Psychology/CS 124 and Psychology 290G – Spring 2004 Faculty Dan Slobin - Psychology, Linguistics (coordinator ) Patricia Baquedano-López - Education Andrew Garrett - Linguistics William Hanks - Anthropology, Linguistics Leanne Hinton - Linguistics Claire Kramsch - German, Education Johanna Nichols -…