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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I thought members of this list might be interested
in this new network.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Julia</FONT></DIV>
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 1:34 PM</DIV>
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{AILA Research Network on Language Policy} The network - next steps</DIV>
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<P>AILA Research Network on Language Policy – Next steps</P>
<P>The Network was approved by the AILA Research Networks committee on May 2
2006.</P>
<P>A mailing list (with 192 members so far) is now working through Google
Groups. The home page of the group is <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://groups.google.com/group/LPREN"
target=_blank>http://groups.google.com/group/LPREN</A>.<SPAN>
</SPAN>There are instructions there how to join. Anyone can read earlier
messages there, but to receive mail and to post, you need to be a member
(but you don't need to have gmail to be a member).<SPAN> </SPAN>Once
you are a member, you can post to the list by sending a message to <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:LPREN@googlegroups.com" target=_blank>LPREN@googlegroups.com
</A>. Because the list is moderated, an owner will check the posting before
it is distributed.<SPAN> </SPAN>Please do not send attachments. Check
any URLs before you send them. </P>
<P>The interim committee of the Network is Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, University
of Bristol; Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University; Jasone Cenoz, University of
the Basque Country; Richard Baldauf, University of Queensland; and Bernard
Spolsky is Interim Organizer.</P>
<P>A new committee, to serve until the 2008 AILA Congress, will be selected
at the meetings at Limerick and Brisbane in a month from now.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Ideally, the committee should provide world coverage: perhaps the
Limerick meeting should select members from Europe, Africa and North and
South America, and Brisbane meeting members from Asia and the Pacific.
Suggestions and offers to serve are welcome.</P>
<P>We hope soon to have a web-site, to be set up by Wayne Wright at the
University of Texas San Antonio.<SPAN> </SPAN>We can have our own
address but <SPAN> </SPAN><A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.language-policy.org/"
target=_blank>www.language-policy.org</A> is already taken.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Please make suggestions for names and content. Would somebody be
willing to put together some links for the site (such as a list of lists
which circulate news about language policy, or a list of language policy
centers, or a list of language policy journals, or a list of bibliographical
sources)? <SPAN> </SPAN></P>
<P>Limerick and Brisbane will be a chance to discuss the future of the
Network, but if you can't be at either, or if you have ideas that we should
think about beforehand, you can post to the group.</P>
<P>Best wishes</P>
<P>Bernard</P><BR>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<BR>You
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<DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Bernard Spolsky
- <BR>Professor emeritus, Bar-Ilan University<BR>Editor, LANGUAGE
POLICY<BR>Mail: 32 Habad Street, 97500 Jerusalem, Israel<BR>Phone:
+972-2-628-2044 Fax: +972-2-628-5472 <BR>Mobile: +972-52-421-8146<BR>(I can also
be reached at <A href="mailto:spolsb@mail.biu.ac.il">spolsb@mail.biu.ac.il</A>)
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