[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 46, Issue 2
Harold Schiffman
haroldfs at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jul 14 20:50:42 UTC 2011
Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
Today's Topics:
1. Socio-political dimension of English in Sri Lanka (Francis Hult)
2. New Zealand: 'Caring' the key theme for Maori Language Week
(Francis Hult)
3. Canada: Nunavut struggles to offer Inuit-language education
(Francis Hult)
4. Book: Growing Up with Two Languages: A Practical Guide for
the Bilingual Family, 3rd Edition (Francis Hult)
5. CFP: Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference (Francis Hult)
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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:47:42 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Socio-political dimension of English in Sri Lanka
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Daily News
Socio-political dimension of English in Sri Lanka
Revisiting the four principles underpinning the Presidential
Initiative: English as a Life Skill:
Keynote address by Presidential Advisor and Coordinator of the
Presidential Initiative on English as a Life Skill Sunimal Fernando at
the workshop on Innovative Pedagogical Practices in the 21st Century:
English in Practice, organized by the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri
Lanka at Belihul Oya
Full text:
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/07/05/fea01.asp
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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:52:09 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] New Zealand: 'Caring' the key theme for Maori
Language Week
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3 News
'Caring' the key theme for Maori Language Week
Maori language week has kicked off across New Zealand, with a theme of
"Manaakitanga" guiding the week-long events.
The word roughly translates to mean care of oneself, of others, and
the environment, says Maori Language Commission chief executive Glenis
Philip-Barbara.
Full story:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Caring-the-key-theme-for-Maori-Language-Week/tabid/423/articleID/217561/Default.aspx
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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:58:40 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Canada: Nunavut struggles to offer Inuit-language
education
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CBC News
Nunavut struggles to offer Inuit-language education
Nunavut is struggling to educate its young students in English and the
Inuit languages, even though it is required under the territory's
education laws.
Not all of Nunavut's schools have met the territorial government's
2009 goal of providing bilingual Kindergarten to Grade 3 classes.
Full story:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/06/28/nunavut-inuit-education-aariak.html
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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 09:23:19 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Book: Growing Up with Two Languages: A Practical
Guide for the Bilingual Family, 3rd Edition
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Via lgpolicy...
Growing Up with Two Languages: A Practical Guide for the Bilingual
Family, 3rd Edition
Published: 2011
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415598521/
Author: Una Cunningham-Andersson
Please Note: This is a new version of a previously announced text.
The lives of many families involve contact with more than one language and
culture on a daily basis. Growing Up with Two Languages is aimed at the
many parents and professionals who feel uncertain about the best way to go
about helping children gain maximum benefit from the multilingual situation.
This best-selling guide is illustrated by glimpses of life from interviews with
fifty families from all around the world. The trials and rewards of
life with two
languages and cultures are discussed in detail, and followed by practical
advice on how to support the child's linguistic development.
Features of this third edition include:
*a dedicated website with new and updated Internet resources:
http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415598521/
*a new chapter giving the perspective of adults who have themselves grown
up with more than one language
*a new chapter presenting research into bilingual language acquisition with
information about further reading
*new and updated first-hand advice and examples throughout.
http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-2812.html
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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:59:49 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] CFP: Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference
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Via lgpolicy...
Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference
Short Title: ILinC
Date: 14-Oct-2011 - 15-Oct-2011
Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Vander Viana
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://go.qub.ac.uk/1stILinC
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 24-Jul-2011
Meeting Description:
Queen's University Belfast is pleased to announce its 1st
Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference (ILinC), a student-led
venture to take place on 14-15 October 2011 (Friday and Saturday).
This two-day conference is designed to offer participants a
stimulating and friendly forum in which they may present and discuss
their research findings. Additionally, the event aims at bringing
together researchers from different academic divisions carrying out
language studies in order to foster cross-disciplinary contact.
This year's conference theme is 'Crossing Boundaries: The Impact of
Language Studies in Academia and Beyond'. We therefore seek to look
into the role played by language studies both within the academic
scenario and outside it, paying special attention to the relevance of
current language research findings to society in general.
The following distinguished scholars have confirmed their
participation at the conference:
- Prof. Deborah Cameron (University of Oxford)
- Prof. Michael Halliday (University of Sydney)
- Prof. Ruqaiya Hasan (Macquarie University)
Call for Papers:
Due to numerous requests, the deadline for submitting proposals has
been extended until July 24th. We invite researchers (both students
and staff members) working in the broad area of language studies to
submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations based on the
(non-exhaustive) list of areas below:
- Applied linguistics
- Classroom discourse
- Corpus linguistics
- Critical discourse analysis
- Discourse analysis
- Genre analysis
- Language change
- Language policy
- Language teaching/learning
- Linguistic and cultural imperialism
- Multimodality
- Phonetics/phonology
- Pragmatics
- Semantics
- Sociolinguistics
- Syntax
- Stylistics
Given that there will be few parallel sessions in the 1st ILinC, we
especially encourage the submission of poster proposals at this stage.
Submission Guidelines:
Proposals should be submitted via EasyAbs available at
http://go.qub.ac.uk/ilinc2011, following the guidelines below:
1. Abstracts should be 300 words long (maximum) and should clearly
indicate the research question/objective, literature review,
methodology, results and conclusions (without any subheadings).
2. The DOC file to be submitted via the online facility should be
formatted as such:
a. The first line should specify the title, which must be centralized,
in bold, and in capital letters.
b. After skipping a line, the abstract should be typed, containing a
maximum of 300 words. Citations should be included as deemed
necessary, but there is no need to include full references at the end
of the abstract.
c. Please do not use any foot/endnotes and avoid unusual symbols (such
as phonetic transcriptions) which may be changed in electronic
communication.
Key Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 24 July 2011
Notification of reviewers' decision: 15 August 2011
Presenters' registration deadline: 26 August 2011
Conference: 14-15 October 2011
http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-2856.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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