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<br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Developing early literacy in New York/New Jersey Yiddish<br> (<a href="mailto:mcgrew@dolphin.upenn.edu">mcgrew@dolphin.upenn.edu</a>)<br> 2. Seattle: Math lessons in Mandarin? Local schools go global<br>
(Francis Hult)<br> 3. Prague: Language acquisition (Francis Hult)<br> 4. New Language Course App for the iPad Will Open the Next<br> Frontier for Language Learning (Francis Hult)<br> 5. Songbirds Offer Clues to How We Learn Language (Francis Hult)<br>
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Subject: [Edling] Developing early literacy in New York/New Jersey<br> Yiddish<br>To: "The Educational Linguistics List." <<a href="mailto:edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu">edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu</a>><br>
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<br>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.<br>
<br>If you're interested, please reply to <a href="mailto:mcgrew@dolphin.upenn.edu">mcgrew@dolphin.upenn.edu</a> and I'll connect you.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Sean McGrew<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Francis Hult" <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu">edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu</a><br>Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2010 9:35:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: [Edling] Jobs: Two positions open at Gunma Prefectural Women's University<br>
<br><br>Re: [Aaal-l] Two positions open at GPWU<br><br>Via AAAL...<br><br><br><br>We have two tenure track positions opening up here in Gunma-ken in Japan.<br><br><br>For more details about the positions, please visit these websites:<br>
<br>JOB A<br>(which requires a native speaker or native-like abilities in Japanese):<br><a href="http://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&id=D110030748&ln_jor=0" target="_blank">http://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&id=D110030748&ln_jor=0</a><br>
<br><br><br>JOB B (requires interest in Japan and some Japanese ability is preferred):<br><br><a href="http://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&id=D110030746&ln_jor=1" target="_blank">http://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&id=D110030746&ln_jor=1</a><br>
<br>If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you.<br><br>-Mark<br><br><br>************************************************************<br>Mark R. Freiermuth, Ph.D.<br>Professor of Applied Linguistics<br>
Gunma Prefectural Women's University<br>Department of International Communication<br>1395-1 Kaminote, Tamamura-machi, Gunma-ken<br>JAPAN 370-1193<br>************************************************************<br>A short music video about International Communication @ GPWU (???????<br>
?):<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYyhLgf3-w" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYyhLgf3-w</a><br>My GPWU website:<br><a href="http://www.gpwu.ac.jp/guide/info/20/2008040100_020100_000800.html" target="_blank">http://www.gpwu.ac.jp/guide/info/20/2008040100_020100_000800.html</a><br>
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Subject: [Edling] Seattle: Math lessons in Mandarin? Local schools go<br> global<br>To: <<a href="mailto:edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu">edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu</a>><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:A9B2E1D7E2CAE34FB088BEFC63241A4B9676A3@diamonddt.UTSARR.NET">A9B2E1D7E2CAE34FB088BEFC63241A4B9676A3@diamonddt.UTSARR.NET</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>The Seattle Times<br><br><br><br>Math lessons in Mandarin? Local schools go global<br><br><br><br>For nearly an hour, no one speaks a word of English in this first-grade math class.<br>
<br>Not the teacher, Ying Ying Wu, who talks energetically in Mandarin's songlike tones.<br><br>Not the students - 6- and 7-year-olds who seem to follow along fine, even though only one speaks Mandarin at home.<br><br>
<br><br>Even the math test has been translated, by Wu, into Chinese characters.<br><br>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.<br>
<br><br><br>Full story:<br><br><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011525042_international05m.html" target="_blank">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011525042_international05m.html</a><br>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Prague Daily Monitor<br><br><br><br>Language acquisition<br><br><br><br>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."<br>
<br><br><br>Full story:<br><br><a href="http://praguemonitor.com/2010/04/02/language-acquisition" target="_blank">http://praguemonitor.com/2010/04/02/language-acquisition</a><br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>
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Next Frontier for Language Learning<br>To: <<a href="mailto:edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu">edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu</a>><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:A9B2E1D7E2CAE34FB088BEFC63241A4B9676A5@diamonddt.UTSARR.NET">A9B2E1D7E2CAE34FB088BEFC63241A4B9676A5@diamonddt.UTSARR.NET</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>1888 Press Release<br><br><br><br>New Language Course App for the iPad Will Open the Next Frontier for Language Learning<br><br><br><br>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.<br>
<br><br><br>Full text:<br><br><a href="http://www.1888pressrelease.com/new-language-course-app-for-the-ipad-will-open-the-next-fron-pr-198033.html" target="_blank">http://www.1888pressrelease.com/new-language-course-app-for-the-ipad-will-open-the-next-fron-pr-198033.html</a><br>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>US News & World Report<br><br><br><br>Songbirds Offer Clues to How We Learn Language<br><br><br><br>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.<br>
<br><<a href="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" target="_blank">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</a>><br>
<br>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.<br>
<br><br><br>Full story:<br><br><a href="http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/04/01/songbirds-offer-clues-to-how-we-learn-language.html" target="_blank">http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/04/01/songbirds-offer-clues-to-how-we-learn-language.html</a><br>
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