explicit and tacit missions of the berkeley language center
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Explicit and Tacit Missions of the Berkeley Language Center. Rick Kern, UC Berkeley. The BLC’s mission . To support the learning and teaching of foreign and heritage languages on the Berkeley campus and, where appropriate, in the University of California system. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Explicit and Tacit Missions of the Berkeley Language Center
Rick Kern, UC Berkeley
To support the learning and teaching of foreign and heritage languages on the Berkeley campus and, where appropriate, in the University of California system.
• Provide language instructors with opportunities to learn of new developments in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, and second language acquisition theory;
• Support language research and its dissemination at professional meetings and in professional journals;
• Provide faculty and students with learning resources and facilities;
• Support faculty production of new language learning materials.
The BLC’s mission
To INTELLECTUALIZE language learning and teaching
To build an intellectual COMMUNITY of language teachers
The BLC’s tacit mission
Language Centers implicitly foster new ways of thinking• About the status of languages on the campus
• About language teaching as an important and valued
enterprise
• About collaboration in resolving issues, developing materials,
etc.
• About colleagues from different languages as intellectual
partners
Four Key Objectives
1.Outreach/Inreach
2.Internationalization
3.Research
4.Resources
The BLC in relation to…
UC Berkeley’s mission
National trends in language education
Future Directions
Partial stand-in for former UC Language Consortium
Title VI funding work-arounds
Centralized FL pedagogy courses?
Undergraduate courses?
Service learning initiatives
2013-14 BLC Revenue & Carry forward
560
371511
29
304
29
270
Annual allocationTASStudent employmentOperationsSummer sessionsCommon goodRechargeMellon2011-12 Carry forward
Total Resource = $1,012,000
2013-14 BLC Expenses
Total Expenses = $995,000
277
337
23
65
130
11
15 5
Academic SalariesStaff SalariesTemporary StaffOperationsClassroom renovationLecture seriesTravel supportFilms & books
