[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 32, Issue 1

Harold Schiffman haroldfs at GMAIL.COM
Tue May 4 13:43:06 UTC 2010


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Today's Topics:

  1. CFP: Beliefs about Second Language Acquisition Revisited
     (Francis Hult)
  2. Indonesian Language a Casualty of Poor Teaching,  Parents'
     Preference for English (Francis Hult)
  3. British Columbia's native languages at risk of extinction
     (Francis Hult)
  4. Learning to speak like a Shanghai native (Francis Hult)


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Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 15:07:15 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] CFP: Beliefs about Second Language Acquisition
       Revisited
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Special issue, September 2011:


Beliefs about Second Language Acquisition Revisited




This is the first announcement of a Special Issue of System which is
planned for September 2011. It will be on the subject of Beliefs about
Second Language Acquisition, as a follow up to the Special Issue on
this topic published by this journal in 1999 as well as on the
developments in this area since then. The Guest Editors will be Ana
Maria Ferreira Barcleos, Federal University of Vi?osa, Brazil & Paula
Kalaja, University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland.



A decade ago a special issue of System brought learner beliefs about
language to the attention of SLA researchers. Since then a lot has
happened in SLA and in Applied Linguistics, bringing changes to how we
understand beliefs and their role in language learning and teaching.
We believe it is time to review the changes and bring new
understandings of this concept to the fore. Thus, to celebrate more
than a decade of research on learner beliefs we propose this volume
with key articles



In the first instance, intending authors are requested to submit
proposals of 300-500 words to the Guest Editors. The deadline for
submissions is September 1st, 2010.

The proposed papers should focus on beliefs about second language
acquisition or teaching held by students or teachers, or other agents
in the field of language education (e.g., parents, school
authorities). The papers should have a sound theoretical basis and
should rely on interpretative, qualitative, sociocultural or
contextual approaches to the investigation of this concept. Given the
goals of the journal, empirical studies, review articles and
state-of-the-art articles are all welcome on any of the following
areas:



?        The relationship between beliefs and actions

?        The nature of beliefs

?        Methodological issues in doing research on beliefs

?        Challenges involved in doing research on beliefs

?        The application of findings concerning beliefs in the classroom

?        Benefits and limitations of research on beliefs (within any approach)

?        Ethical issues in investigating beliefs and belief
attribution to participants

?        The relationship between beliefs and other variables in
language learning such as motivation, styles, strategies, identities
and affective variables

?        The relationship between students' and teachers' beliefs

?        Theoretical frameworks used in doing research on beliefs



Proposals, which should not have been submitted elsewhere, should be
sent as e-mail attachment to Ana Barcelos, anamfb at ufv.br and Paula
Kalaja, paula.kalaja at jyu.fi <mailto:pkalaja at jyi.fi>  and include the
author's name and e-mail details. Out of the proposals, a number will
be chosen by anonymous review by a panel of specialists; note that
selection at this stage does not guarantee publication.  Authors will
be notified by Oct 1st, 2010, of the outcome of the review; and the
deadline for the submission of full papers will be February 1st, 2011.
Papers should confirm to the usual word length of 5000 words, maximum,
in the body of the paper and to the house style of the journal (see
Author's instructions on the website at:
www.elsevier.com/locate/system). A final selection will be made by the
panel by April 1st, 2011; and versions incorporating any proposed
revisions will need to be submitted by June 1st, 2011.



All enquiries about the Special Issue should be directed to Ana
Barcelos and Paula Kalaja at the e-mail addresses above.


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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:18:48 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Indonesian Language a Casualty of Poor Teaching,
       Parents' Preference for English
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Jakarta Globe

Indonesian Language a Casualty of Poor Teaching, Parents' Preference for English

Two-year-old Alvaro Zafransyah is Indonesian, with both his parents
born and raised here, but at his home in Jakarta he is encouraged to
speak English exclusively.

Milla Narendra, Alvaro's mother, said that she had been teaching her
son English ever since he was a baby.

"English is the second mother language these days," she said. "I want
my son to get used to it as early as possible."

Many other parents are taking the same approach as Milla nowadays -
teaching their children English, and even Mandarin, from an early age.
Their aim is to make it easier for their kids to flourish in an era
when both languages are deemed to be of vital importance.

However, the trend of studying a second language may be having an
unintended side-effect. Next week, 80,000 of the 154,000 senior high
school students who failed the recent national examinations exams are
set to repeat their Indonesian language tests.



Full story:

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/indonesian-language-a-casualty-of-poor-teaching-parents-preference-for-english/372923

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:21:36 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] British Columbia's native languages at risk of
       extinction
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The Globe and Mail

B.C.'s native languages at risk of extinction

Indigenous languages in British Columbia are at risk of disappearing
as the number of fluent speakers dwindles and school and community
language programs struggle to keep them alive, says a new report.

Of 32 languages identified in the study, all are endangered and three
are "sleeping," with no known living speakers, says the Report on the
Status of B.C. First Nations Languages 2010.

Full story:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bcs-native-languages-at-risk-of-extinction/article1554253/

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:23:51 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Learning to speak like a Shanghai native
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China Daily

Learning to speak like a Shanghai native

An enterprising pair of Beijing video journalists is winning rave
reviews for a new online video series designed to help World
Expo-bound local residents and foreign visitors learn to pronounce
simple phrases in Shanghainese.

Wearing an oversized pair of glasses (without any lenses), Huang Lan,
24, plays the role of a teacher, but with an outsized sense of fun,
standing in front of a blackboard and merrily waving a piece of chalk
in front of her students as they stumble over the pronunciations.

"You've made it really fun. If only all language teachers in China
could be so funny," wrote one Beijing netizen on the comments section
included on Say It in Shanghai, the new 25-part podcast series on
China Daily's website at chinadaily.com.cn.

Full story:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2010-05/03/content_9802991.htm

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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
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Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
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