Yesterday Per Urlaub, of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, visited the CLS for a special talk on curricular change in university foreign language departments. Entitled “From Communicative Competence to Critical Literacy: Genre, Proficiency Levels, Strategies,” the…
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Irreducible differences and legitimacy gaps: Observations from the BLC colloquium
On Friday I had the pleasure of joining many colleagues and friends at UC Berkeley for the first and last sessions of a one-day colloquium organized by Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang, entitled “The legitimacy gap: Multilingual native language teachers…