[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 31, Issue 2

Harold Schiffman haroldfs at GMAIL.COM
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Today's Topics:

  1. Developing early literacy in New York/New Jersey Yiddish
     (mcgrew at dolphin.upenn.edu)
  2. Seattle: Math lessons in Mandarin? Local schools go global
     (Francis Hult)
  3. Prague: Language acquisition (Francis Hult)
  4. New Language Course App for the iPad Will Open the Next
     Frontier for Language Learning (Francis Hult)
  5. Songbirds Offer Clues to How We Learn Language (Francis Hult)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:24:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: mcgrew at dolphin.upenn.edu
Subject: [Edling] Developing early literacy in New York/New Jersey
       Yiddish
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Anybody interested in helping develop a curriculum for K-3 literacy in
Yiddish? The students are native speakers of northeast U.S. Yiddish,
identified by their schools as struggling to learn to read in English,
Believe it or not, they've gotten approval to spend some of their public
remedial reading funding on first-language reading instruction. The company
that contractually provides their learning support services (Catapult
Learning) is looking for a consultant or two who are (1) literate and fluent
in the New Jersey flavor of Yiddish, and (2) have some experience and
training in language teaching, literacy development, etc, to help develop a
plan and identify/create appropriate materials.

If you're interested, please reply to mcgrew at dolphin.upenn.edu and I'll
connect you.

Thanks!

Sean McGrew


----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis Hult" <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
To: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2010 9:35:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [Edling] Jobs: Two positions open at Gunma Prefectural Women's
University


Re: [Aaal-l] Two positions open at GPWU

Via AAAL...



We have two tenure track positions opening up here in Gunma-ken in Japan.


For more details about the positions, please visit these websites:

JOB A
(which requires a native speaker or native-like abilities in Japanese):
http://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&id=D110030748&ln_jor=0



JOB B (requires interest in Japan and some Japanese ability is preferred):

http://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&id=D110030746&ln_jor=1

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you.

-Mark


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Mark R. Freiermuth, Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Linguistics
Gunma Prefectural Women's University
Department of International Communication
1395-1 Kaminote, Tamamura-machi, Gunma-ken
JAPAN 370-1193
************************************************************
A short music video about International Communication @ GPWU (???????
?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYyhLgf3-w
My GPWU website:
http://www.gpwu.ac.jp/guide/info/20/2008040100_020100_000800.html

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:51:18 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Seattle: Math lessons in Mandarin? Local schools go
       global
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The Seattle Times



Math lessons in Mandarin? Local schools go global



For nearly an hour, no one speaks a word of English in this first-grade math
class.

Not the teacher, Ying Ying Wu, who talks energetically in Mandarin's
songlike tones.

Not the students - 6- and 7-year-olds who seem to follow along fine, even
though only one speaks Mandarin at home.



Even the math test has been translated, by Wu, into Chinese characters.

At Beacon Hill International School, many students learn a second language
along with their ABCs by spending half of each school day immersed in
Mandarin Chinese or Spanish.



Full story:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011525042_international05m.html

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:55:59 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Prague: Language acquisition
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Prague Daily Monitor



Language acquisition



I spent a fair amount of time during Anna's toddler years obsessing over
whether or not her language skills were progressing in both Czech and
English. At almost three, Oliver is now past the age when Anna began to
express herself fairly fluently in Czech, already being fluent in English.
As with most aspects of raising a second child, my approach to language
development this time around has been far more relaxed. Lack of extra time
for worrying plus the experience of witnessing Anna's bilingual success has
lead me to conclude: "No need to worry. He'll pick up Czech as soon as he
starts school."



Full story:

http://praguemonitor.com/2010/04/02/language-acquisition

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:58:00 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] New Language Course App for the iPad Will Open the
       Next    Frontier for Language Learning
To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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1888 Press Release



New Language Course App for the iPad Will Open the Next Frontier for
Language Learning



Hello-Hello, a market leading language learning company, announced the
launch of their iPad app that is available immediately in the iTunes Store.
Apple has approved Hello-Hello's language learning app for the Grand Opening
of the iPad App Store. The Hello-Hello iPad app is priced at $4.99 initially
and features Hello-Hello's complete Spanish course developed in
collaboration with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL). The Hello-Hello Spanish language course app is available
immediately for the iPad's release and apps for other languages will be
launched in the coming weeks. Future iPad apps from Hello-Hello will include
social networking features that will allow language learners to interact
with native speakers of the language they are learning.



Full text:

http://www.1888pressrelease.com/new-language-course-app-for-the-ipad-will-open-the-next-fron-pr-198033.html

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:59:27 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Songbirds Offer Clues to How We Learn Language
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US News & World Report



Songbirds Offer Clues to How We Learn Language



When we hear a song for the first time, it often seems like it goes in one
ear and out the other, sometimes only few catchy words from a chorus leaving
much of an impression.

<
http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v8/3973/0/0/%2a/l;44306;0-0;0;41846451;32414-468/648;0/0/0;;~okv=;kw=animals;kw=biology;kw=science;kw=APScience;sz=468x648;tile=2;pos=xxlA;~aopt=2/1/4f/0;~sscs=%3f
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But when the Australian zebra finch hears its father sing for the first
time, those simple melodies activate large, complex gene networks in the
bird's brain, according to new research by an international team of
scientists that includes researchers from Washington University and the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.



Full story:

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/04/01/songbirds-offer-clues-to-how-we-learn-language.html

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Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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