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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear Colleague,</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">You may be interested in recent developments in the UK, and we would certainly be interested to hear from you if any of this relates to what's happening in your country. There's a list of more specific requests
at the end of the message.<br>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Like many other countries, we've introduced a linguistics
<u>olympiad</u>, which has proved very popular with quite a lot of schools and with the students in those schools (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.uklo.org/">https://www.uklo.org/</a>).
<br>
</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The local committee running the olympiad is sponsored by the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE), which has been active since 1980, and CLiE has recently created another organisation to complement the
olympiad: <u>LASER</u> (Language Analysis in Schools: Education and Research). As its name suggests, this is all about introducing language analysis (not just grammar, but also phonics, vocabulary, semantics, ...) into the UK's ordinary school curriculum,
where it is currently almost non-existent. LASER has its own website which includes a manifesto (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://clie.org.uk/laser/#manifesto">http://clie.org.uk/laser/#manifesto</a>), but it was only launched a few months ago
so it's not yet achieved much.</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">One of its early achievements is a set of short position papers which has been published in an open-access journal Languages, Society and Policy (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://clie.org.uk/laser-launch2/#lsp">http://clie.org.uk/laser-launch2/#lsp</a>).
Two of the articles are about the benefits of language analysis for mathematics and statistics, and we're particularly keen to extend this coverage of links to science subjects.
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</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">We're also keen to relate to relevant research and relevant good practice, each of which already has a sparsely-populated page:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://clie.org.uk/research/">http://clie.org.uk/research/</a> and
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://clie.org.uk/good-practice/">http://clie.org.uk/good-practice/</a>.</font></li></ol>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">We're very much aware that some other countries have an educational tradition which gives much more prominence than ours does to language analysis, and we'd love to hear from anyone who can add to our collections
of links to:<br>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">language analysis for science subjects in the curriculum (see #3 above).<br>
</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">research on teaching language analysis and its benefits (see #4)<br>
</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">examples of good practice in this area (see #4).<br>
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<p>With best wishes, Dick Hudson<br>
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Richard Hudson (dickhudson.com)</pre>
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