Leo van Lier Lecture Series

Upcoming Lectures

George Bunch

Associate Professor of Education
University of California, Santa Cruz

Lecture Topic: Pedagogical Language Knowledge: Preparing Teachers for English Learners in the New Common Standards Era

Date: March 1, 2013,  2:00-4:00pm in MG 102
Location: McGowan 102

Lourdes Ortega

Professor in the Department of Linguistics
Georgetown University

Lecture Topic: How Useful is Instructed SLA Research for Teachers, and What Does Epistemological Diversity Have to Do With It?

Date: Friday, May 17th, 2:00-4:00 pm
Location: McGowan 102 

Steve Thorne

Lecture Topic: Coming Soon!

Past Lectures

Bev Derewianka Director of TESOL at University of Wollongong, Australia Lecture Topic: Getting Personal: Using language to engage with readers to express feelings, persuade others to our point of view, judge peoples' behavior, and moderate our expression of attitude	Shirley Brice Heath Professor at Brown University and Stanford University Lecture Topic: Moving the Human Eye and Mind: Visual, Musical, and Literary Arts in Grounding Cognition
Bonnie Norton Professor of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada Lecture Topic: The Practice of Theory in the Language Classroom	Maricel Santos Assistant Professor Of English at San Francisco State University Lecture Topic: In Search of a Common Vocabulary: Strengthening Partnerships in Health Literacy for Improved Immigrant Health
Eve Zyzik Associate Professor of Spanish at UC Santa Cruz Lecture Topic: Focus on Form and Authentic Texts: A Compatibility Check	Marc Kaiser Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center and Lecturer in Russian at UC Berkeley Lecture Topic: Integrating Film Clips into the Foreign Language Curriculum
B. Kumaravadivelu Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at San Jose State University, California Lecture Topic: Individual Identity in the Age of Cultural Globalization