Professor Claire Kramsch, Professor of German at the University of California at UC Berkeley and visiting Professor for the PhD program in Applied Linguistics at Hellenic American University, will give a public lecture on multilingualism in a globalized word. The lecture will take place on June 3rd, 2014, at 7:00 pm in the 2nd floor Auditorium, at 22 Massalias street in Athens.
The Linguistics Department of Hellenic American College, in cooperation with Hellenic American University (Manchester, NH, USA), invites you to attend a public lecture by Professor Claire Kramsch entitled “Between the local and the global: Foreign languages in the crossfire”.
Professor Kramsch has provided the following abstract of her talk:
“The teaching and learning of foreign/second languages today is caught between the need to acquire ‘usable skills’ in predictable cultural contexts and the fundamental unpredictability of global contexts. On the one hand, mindful of their mission to teach the national language, literature and culture of a given national speech community, teachers strive to impart a mastery of the standard language that will enable learners to become educated users of the language, to communicate with native speakers and to read the literature written by and for native speakers. On the other hand, as global communications have become more and more multimodal and multilingual and potential interlocutors are not necessarily monolingual native nationals but other multilingual non-native speakers, foreign language learners have to learn how to develop a linguistic and cultural competence across multilingual contexts. Exploring these challenges from the perspective of applied linguistics can shed light both on the relation of language and culture and on second language acquisition in institutional settings”.
Professor Kramsch is Professor of German at the University of California at UC Berkeley where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Applied Linguistics both in the German department and in the Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on language learning and teaching, with special emphasis on the relation of language and culture, discourse and power, and multilingual subjectivity.
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Admission is free of charge.
