[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 34, Issue 7

Wed Jul 14 17:05:11 UTC 2010

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Today's Topics:

  1. Congo: Expert calls for use of local languages in early
     school learning (Francis Hult)
  2. US: Nine Studies about Arizona's Policy for English       Language
     Learners (Francis Hult)
  3. Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot (Francis Hult)
  4. Tibetans' mother tongue faces tide of Chinese (Francis Hult)
  5. Battle intensifies for $2bn English-teaching business in
     China (Francis Hult)

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Afrique en Ligne

Expert calls for use of local languages in early school learning

A United Nations education expert on Thursday told a conference of top
African education officials in Brazzaville that countries on the
continent need to switch from foreign to local languages as a medium
of instruction in elementary school to stimulate learning interest in
first-time learners and to enable them to easily grasp concepts being
taught.

Almost universally across the continent, a foreign language - usually
that of the former colonising power - is used as the medium of
instruction in African schools at all levels, with local languages
just being one of the subjects being taught.

Full story:

http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/expert-calls-for-use-of-local-languages-in-early-school-learning-2010070952445.html

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:27:47 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] US: Nine Studies about Arizona's Policy for English
       Language Learners
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The Civil Rights Project UCLA

in collaboration with the University of Arizona

Studies about Arizona's Policy for English Language Learners

Arizona Educational Equity Project: Abstracts and Papers

1. Cecilia Rios Aguilar, Manuel Gonz?lez-Canche, Luis Moll

A Study of Arizona's Teachers of English Language Learners

2. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Manuel Gonz?lez-Canche & Luis Moll

Implementing Structured English Immersion [SEI] in Arizona: Benefits,
Costs, Challenges, and Opportunities

3. Patricia G?ndara & Gary Orfield

A Return to the "Mexican Room": The Segregation of Arizona's English Learners

4. Ida Rose Florez

Do the AZELLA Cut Scores Meet the Standards? A Validation Review of
the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment

5. Karen E. Lillie, Amy Markos, Alexandria Estrella, Tracy Nguyen,
Karisa Peer, Karla Perez, Anthony Trifiro, M. Beatriz Arias, &
Terrence G. Wiley

Policy in Practice: The Implementation of Structured English Immersion
in Arizona

6. Mary Martinez-Wenzl, Karla P?rez & Patricia G?ndara

Is Arizona's Approach to Educating its ELs Superior to Other Forms of
Instruction?

7. Claude Goldenberg & Sara Rutherford-Quach

The Arizona Home Language Survey and the Identification of Students
for ELL Services

8. Eugene Garcia, Kerry Lawton & Eduardo H. Diniz de Figueiredo

The Education of English Language Learners in Arizona: A Legacy of
Persisting Achievement Gaps in a Restrictive Language Policy Climate

9. Eugene Garcia, Kerry Lawton & Eduardo H. Diniz de Figueiredo

Assessment of Young English Language Learners in Arizona: Questioning
the Validity of the State Measure of English Proficiency

Access the full papers:

http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/news/pressreleases/azeep-abstracts-papers.html

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:34:41 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot
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New York Times

Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot

In a handful of laboratories around the world, computer scientists are
developing robots like this one: highly programmed machines that can
engage people and teach them simple skills, including household tasks,
vocabulary or, as in the case of the boy, playing, elementary
imitation and taking turns.

So far, the teaching has been very basic, delivered mostly in
experimental settings, and the robots are still works in progress, a
hackers' gallery of moving parts that, like mechanical savants, each
do some things well at the expense of others.

Full story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/11robots.html

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:35:13 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Tibetans' mother tongue faces tide of Chinese
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The Washington Post

Tibetans' mother tongue faces tide of Chinese

Teenager Dawan Dunjhu is Tibetan and lives in Tibet, but says that if
his friends and classmates can't master Mandarin Chinese, they have
little hope of a professional future.

"I want to be a lawyer, and for me Chinese plays a very important role
both in my life and my study," Dawan Dunjhu, 16, told Reuters during a
government-organized visit for foreign media to Tibet.

Full story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/13/AR2010071306848.html

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:36:41 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Battle intensifies for $2bn English-teaching
       business in     China
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The Guardian

Battle intensifies for $2bn English-teaching business in China

In South Korea, pushy parents who want their children to get ahead in
learning English send them for an operation to elongate the tongue, in
the belief that it will make pronunciation easier.

Such is the national obsession with having a fluent command of the
language that drastic measures are taken in some cases when children
are just six months old. China has not yet reached the same level of
fanaticism over spoken English, but it is not far off.

Full story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/13/china-english-schools

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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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