Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Rick Kern on October 7, 2011
Friday, October 7, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, B-4 Dwinelle Hall Opening remarks by Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley Elizabeth Boner, San Francisco State University Negotiating relationship through translation: How American development practitioners and Tanzanian beneficiaries exploit the gap between languages This paper examines the practice of translation within meetings between American development practitioners and Tanzanian…
Posted by Victoria Williams on March 19, 2011
What Makes an Ideal Hybrid Language Learner? by Professor Robert Blake, Spanish and Classics, University of California, Davis. What factors make for a successful online L2 learning experience? What is the ideal profile of a hybrid language learner with access to both online and classroom meetings? While previous studies have examined online learning in comparative…
Posted by John Wuorenmaa on February 5, 2010
Communicating Gramatically: Evaluating a Learner Strategies Website for Spanish Grammar by Andrew D. Cohen, Professor, Program in Second Language Studies, University of Minnesota, presented the first of the BLC’s Spring 2010 Lecture Series, “Communicating Gramatically: Evaluating a Learner Strategies Website for Spanish Grammar,” an introduction to the Spanish Grammar Strategies website. The site is part…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on October 26, 2009
Distance Teaching and Distance Learning by Carl Falsgraf, Director, Oregon Chinese Flagship, University of Oregon Current models of distance learning are predominantly adaptations of face-to-face classroom models. Ensuring the quality of these models and providing empirical evidence that students learn as well or better in the distance environment is essential. At the same time, we…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on October 23, 2009
From Texting to Tweeting: The Brave New World of Internet Linguistics by David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor The various domains of electronically mediated communication present new challenges to linguists. Myths about the medium have to be urgently dispelled, innovative usages precisely described, and our characterization of visual language…
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 December 24, 2008
Digital Storytelling PANEL: Joe Lambert, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, San Francisco Will discuss the genesis of Digital Storytelling, showing how DS practices have evolved, and describe current activities at the Center for Digital Storytelling. Heather Pleasants, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama Will present research on how DS relates to issues…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 14, 2008
The Script Encoding Initiative and Language Teaching and Scholarship for Minority and Historic Languages on the Web by Deborah Anderson, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley The Script Encoding Initiative (SEI), a project in the Linguistics Department, helps user communities and scholars get various writing systems into Unicode, the international character-encoding standard. Ultimately, the…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 2, 2007
Learning, Change, and Power: Competing Frames of Technology and Literacy by Mark Warschauer, Department of Education, University of California, Irvine Three main frameworks shape how we think about digital technologies and literacy. The frame of learning attends to how use of new technologies affects the development of reading, writing, and academic literacy. The frame of…
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…