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Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition in the
German Department and in the School
of Education. She is, in
addition, Director of the Berkeley
Language Center,
a research and development unit for all foreign language teachers on campus.
She teaches courses in foreign language pedagogy, discourse analysis, second
language acquisition and foreign language literacy. Her area of research is
applied linguistics, with emphasis on pragmatic, aesthetic and hermeneutic
approaches to language study. She also directs Ph.D. dissertations in these
areas both in the School
of Education and in the
German Department.
Her major publications include Discourse Analysis and Second
Language Teaching; Interaction et discours dans la classe de langue; Reden,
Mitreden, Dazwischenreden: Managing Conversations in German; Foreign Language
Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Text and Context: Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives on Language Study; Context and Culture in Language Teaching;
Language and Culture; Language acquisition and language socialization -
Ecological perspectives. Her many articles have appeared in Studies in Second
Language Acquisition, The Modern Language Journal, Die Unterrichtspraxis, The
Canadian Modern Language Review, Profession, The ADFL Bulletin, PMLA, The
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language Culture and Curriculum.
