[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 38, Issue 8

Tue Nov 30 14:47:58 UTC 2010

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Today's Topics:

  1. Peruvians take a new interest in learning Mandarin (Francis Hult)
  2. Slovak government to strike German as compulsory foreign
     language (Francis Hult)
  3. please include this call for papers (Curry, Mary Jane)

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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:03:38 -0600
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Peruvians take a new interest in learning Mandarin
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English.news.cn

Peruvians take a new interest in learning Mandarin

The surge of Chinese investment in Peru and the increasing trade with
the Asian country has led to a notable interest in learning Mandarin
among Peruvian students and businessmen.

Currently in Lima, capital of Peru, Mandarin is taught in two
universities and in different language institutes, something which was
unimaginable five years ago.

Full story:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-11/27/c_13624553.htm

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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:10:02 -0600
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Slovak government to strike German as compulsory
       foreign language
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Deutsche Welle

Slovak government to strike German as compulsory foreign language

Slovakia's education ministry looks set to realize its plans to make
English the country's only compulsory foreign language; German
teachers in Slovakia, where German has a rich history, feel "attacked"
by the move.

Full story:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6270792,00.html

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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:15:58 -0500
From: "Curry, Mary Jane" <mjcurry at Warner.Rochester.edu>
Subject: [Edling] please include this call for papers
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Call for Papers on Participating in Academic Publishing: Consequences of
Linguistic Policies and Practices

Language Policy is planning a thematic issue on how policies at local,
national, and transnational levels are enacting and enforcing the high
status of English academic publishing and the impact of such policies on
scholars and students, research and teaching, and institutional
practices in different geographical contexts. English is often viewed as
the lingua franca of scholarly publishing in many disciplines,
particularly in the sciences and social sciences. The rise of English as
the presumed global medium of scholarly publication has resulted in both
obvious and less obvious consequences for individual scholars and for
the enterprise of knowledge production. We invite empirical and
theoretical papers that examine the effects and enactments of these
policies and explore the consequences for knowledge making globally.

Deadline for abstracts: April 15, 2011

For consideration for this issue, please send an abstract of up to 300
words to Mary Jane Curry (mjcurry at warner.rochester.edu), who will
co-edit the issue with Theresa Lillis. For empirical papers, the
abstract should identify the geolinguistic context of the research, the
research question/focus, the theoretical framing, and a synopsis of
findings. For theoretical papers, the abstract should describe the issue
under consideration, the theoretical framing, and the conclusions to be
drawn. If the abstract is accepted, you will be invited to submit a
paper due January 1, 2012, which will undergo normal peer review
procedures. The issue is scheduled for publication in early 2013.
Language Policy is a peer-reviewed journal included in the Institute for
Scientific Information (ISI) database.

http://www.springer.com/linguistics/applied+linguistics/journal/10993
<http://www.springer.com/linguistics/applied+linguistics/journal/10993>

Mary Jane Curry, PhD

Associate Professor, Language Education

Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education & Human Development

PO Box 270425, Dewey Hall 1-160G

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY 14627

585.273.5934

FAX 585.473.7598

http://it.warner.rochester.edu/content/facultystaff/directory.php?url=cu
rry

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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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