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<p>Good point. You're right about the well developed nature of theoretical linguistics on Wikipedia. In poking around, I see that there is an Applied Linguistics wiki-project:</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Linguistics/Applied">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Linguistics/Applied</a></p>
<p>It looks like it would benefit from more people in our field participating. Most editors involved in the project seem to have expertise in other areas. This project would be a good jumping off point for developing current entries and adding new ones (like
educational linguistics).</p>
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<p>When it comes to educating the public, you're right that we should pay more attention to Wikipedia.</p>
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<p>Francis</p>
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<div id="divRpF552520" style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se [edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se] on behalf of Jeff MacSwan [macswan@umd.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 17, 2014 04:15<br>
<b>To:</b> The Educational Linguistics List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Edling] Linguistics in Education<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">Francis,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">This looks like a page related to the effort to do more linguistics in K-12 settings, a project that Wayne O’Neal at MIT was very invested in some years
back – and I think the LSA still is working on this, but of course it’s not likely to happen with the back-to-the-basics dogma driving school policy.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">The idea of creating an Ed Linguistics page is great – and other related pages on Wikipedia. The theoretical linguistics pages on Wikipedia are very well
developed, but the education-related linguistics topics are not. For instance, the page on “Structured English Immersion” was clearly written by SEI zealots. There are lots of other examples of pages that need to be updated and corrected. I think Wikipedia
is the go-to source for lots of the general public. Not a bad idea to even assign Wikipedia editing as a course project/assignment to graduate students!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">Jeff</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Tahoma","sans-serif""> edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se [mailto:edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Francis Hult<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 16, 2014 8:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> edling@bunner.geol.lu.se<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Edling] Linguistics in Education</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">I recently came across a Wikipedia entry for 'linguistics in education':</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_in_Education" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_in_Education</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">I wonder if it would be worthwhile to put the collective wisdom of the Edling list to developing it or, perhaps, creating a new entry for 'educational linguistics'.</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">Francis</span></p>
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