Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Orlando Garcia on January 13, 2016
Niko Euba, Lecturer, German Dept Anna Bellezza, Lecturer, Italian Studies Performative Competence in Language Teaching: A Practical Workshop Living in highly performative and connected societies, an important goal of foreign language education is to develop not only students’ communicative but also their symbolic competencies, helping them to become self-aware, reflective ‘performers on the world stage’.…
Posted by Victoria Williams on August 19, 2015
Mariona Sagarra will perform a vocal, audio-visual concert for us, including poetry and song in Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese! Support the study of Catalan language and culture at Berkeley by attending our first fall 2015 event! Ens hi veiem!
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 25, 2015
Words in Action: A Multilingual Student Performance Come and celebrate an afternoon of linguistic diversity as UC Berkeley students perform scenes, songs and poems in Arabic, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Czech, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu. April 24, 20154:00 - 8:00 PMThe Osher Studio2055 Center Street https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfw_auLuIbrzgWANXCibcPWid-T4HN_bo
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 27, 2015
From musical references woven into urban landscapes to the use of arias in films, opera has forged a certain idea of Italianness, whether ironic, serious or stereotypical. Because of its powerful cultural reach and multimedial and collaborative dimensions, opera is a gateway to approaching specific aspects of the Italian language. My project investigates the potential…
Posted by Victoria Williams on April 15, 2014
Come and celebrate an afternoon of linguistic diversity as UC Berkeley students perform scenes, songs, and poems in American Sign Language (ASL), Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Czech, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Swahili, Telugu, Urdu. Directed by Annamaria Bellezza, Italian Studies. Sponsored by the Berkeley Language Center…
Posted by Rick Kern on April 26, 2013
Don’t miss this celebration of linguistic diversity as UC Berkeley students perform scenes, songs, and poems in Arabic, Armenian, Bitonga, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Danish, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Ronga, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Telugu, Xangana, Xitswa. Directed by Annamaria Bellezza, Department of Italian Studies WORDS_IN_ACTION_FLYER_2013.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XaWq11Efk&list=PLOyuQaVrp4qrnSYpiZhMeuHQM5zhKz4Fp
Posted by Mark Kaiser on May 29, 2012
The videos from the marvelous presentation “Words in Action - A Multilingual Student Performance” are now available here. Again, kudos to Annamaria Bellezza for organizing this event, to Rossella Carbotti for her assistance with the production, and to all the students who worked so hard to bring Annamaria’s concept to life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Qj5eLqZUM&list=PL278AEF3B07CF1ED7
Results in L2 Journal Articles
Johnson, Jennifer T.
Volume 09 Issue 2
Symbolic competence, “the ability to actively manipulate and shape one’s environment on multiple scales of time and space” (Kramsch & Whiteside, 2008, p. 667), offers researchers and educators the ability to understand how learners position themselves. This positioning involves a vying for semiotic resources as a means to question established constructs and re-signify or reframe them (Kramsch, 2011). Theorizations of symbolic competence have thus far given limited attention to the multimodal dimensions of intercultural communication in action, that is, during the process of positioning. In this study, I utilize the operating principles of symbolic competence (positioning, historicity, reframing, and transgressions) to explore the embodied uses of symbolic power (Bourdieu, 1982) in multimodal interactions between deaf and hearing preschoolers. Specifically, this project asks: ...
Keneman, Margaret Lynn
Volume 09 Issue 2
The study of foreign languages has historically been a cornerstone in higher education for a variety of very good reasons, one being that it will help students develop a sensitivity to diversity. This rationale is compelling in theory, but requires a practical approach for instruction that actually guides students towards such a learning outcome. Current research (e.g., Byrnes, 2006; Kramsch, 2006; Swaffar, 2006) has argued that the traditional focus on the development of communicative competence often promotes a functional understanding of the target language and dominant cultural values, thereby obscuring ...