Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 19, 2014
Multilingual Inequality: What narratives reveal about social segmentation and academic success in two European crossroads of migration Katharina Brizic, Postdoctoral Scholar, Berkeley Language Center At the heart of the challenges of modern societies is social inequality. In my research, the term of social inequality refers to the academic success or failure of whole immigrant…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 1, 2014
The Legitimacy Gap: Multilingual native language teachers in monolingual foreign language departments Foreign-born language instructors who teach their native language in the U.S. face the difficult task of mediating between two worlds that often seem historically, socially and culturally incompatible. While they are expected to represent the stereotypical native speaker and to make their students…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 1, 2014
Teaching Romance Languages through Intercomprehension: Networking Hearts and Minds in the Language Classroom by Clorinda Donato, California State University This presentation will discuss how the strategies of Romance Language Intercomprehension are being adapted to the North American context to teach French and Italian to Spanish speakers at California State University, Long Beach. Topics to be…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 9, 2013
Hyperpolyglottery as an Emerging Multilingualism by Michael Erard Examples abound of historical figures who were talented language learners as well as massive accumulators of languages. Numerous myths are told of these figures, too. But a networked society and global business are clearing cultural and economic spaces where the hyperpolyglot’s linguistic proficiencies can be legitimized and…
Posted by Victoria Williams on May 8, 2013
I attended the AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics) Dallas 2013 in Dallas, Texas, March, 2013. I presented my research entitled “L2 accent transfer in L3 production: Evidence from L3 Korean”. This is my first participation in AAAL, which I’ve heard a lot from the Applied Linguistics people and yes, it was a valuable opportunity…
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 24, 2012
I attended the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in Portland, Oregon, in January 2012. I presented my research about multilingualism. While teaching Korean at Berkeley, I found an interesting pattern among native English-speaking students who were learning Korean after learning Japanese. They demonstrated a distinctive pattern; when speaking Korean in…
Posted by Victoria Williams on April 16, 2011
New Media and Literacy in Transnational Environments by Eva Lam, Associate Professor, Learning Sciences, Asian American Studies, Northwestern University. This paper discusses recent developments in sociolinguistic research that theorizes the nature of language and communicative practices in globalized and transnationalized spaces. We consider how this work proposes some new ways to think about language and…
Posted by John Wuorenmaa on March 9, 2010
How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think by Lera Boroditsky, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Department of Psychology. How do the languages we speak shape the ways we think? Do speakers of different languages think differently? Does learning new languages change the way you think? Do bilinguals think differently when speaking different languages?…