<div dir="ltr">Perhaps we need a Babeslanguage to challenge Babescode.<div>Bernard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:01 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list-request@groups.sas.upenn.edu" target="_blank">lgpolicy-list-request@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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1. Should computer code be taught instead of language(s)?<br>
(Harold Schiffman)<br>
2. Language Landscape (Dave Sayers)<br>
3. Harold Schiffman has sent you - Berlin Twp., police<br>
department sued over language barrier - from Courier-Post<br>
(<a href="mailto:do-not-reply@courierpostonline.com">do-not-reply@courierpostonline.com</a>)<br>
4. Politics, economics and identity: mapping the linguistic<br>
landscape of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Abdul Manan .)<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 16:31:45 -0400<br>
From: Harold Schiffman <<a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: [lg policy] Should computer code be taught instead of<br>
language(s)?<br>
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Not at the Expense of Foreign Languages<br>
[image: Stacie Berdan]<br>
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Stacie Nevadomski<br>
Berdan<<a href="http://stacieberdan.com/about-stacie-berdan-international-careers-expert/" target="_blank">http://stacieberdan.com/about-stacie-berdan-international-careers-expert/</a>>is<br>
the author, most recently, of "Raising<br>
Global Children." <<a href="http://stacieberdan.com/raising-global-children-is-here/" target="_blank">http://stacieberdan.com/raising-global-children-is-here/</a>><br>
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*Updated* May 12, 2014, 7:13 PM<br>
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Academics and educators increasingly cite computer coding as an important<br>
component of a 21st-century education. Some even want to have coding<br>
classified as a type of “language” for foreign language credit. Legislators<br>
in Florida<<a href="http://stateimpact.npr.org/florida/2014/02/03/computer-programming-could-count-as-a-foreign-language/" target="_blank">http://stateimpact.npr.org/florida/2014/02/03/computer-programming-could-count-as-a-foreign-language/</a>>,<br>
Kentucky<<a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20140123/NEWS0101/301230033/" target="_blank">http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20140123/NEWS0101/301230033/</a>>,<br>
New Mexico<<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/01/28/states-could-count-computer-programming-as-foreign-language-skill/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/01/28/states-could-count-computer-programming-as-foreign-language-skill/</a>>and<br>
Texas <<a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/02/26/22computer_ep.h33.html" target="_blank">http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/02/26/22computer_ep.h33.html</a>>,<br>
for example, have introduced legislation that would allow high school<br>
students to use computer coding courses to satisfy their state's foreign<br>
language graduation requirement.<br>
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While computer coding is undeniably a worthwhile course of study, there is<br>
a far greater need to teach our elementary school students foreign<br>
languages.<br>
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While computer coding is undeniably a worthwhile course of study, there is<br>
a far greater need to teach our elementary school students real foreign<br>
languages. For starters, as far as I know, there is no research that<br>
indicates that coding will enhance creativity, logical thinking or lead to<br>
the enhanced job prospects that its advocates predict.<br>
<br>
Decades of well-documented<br>
research<<a href="http://www.actfl.org/advocacy/discover-languages/what-the-research-shows" target="_blank">http://www.actfl.org/advocacy/discover-languages/what-the-research-shows</a>>,<br>
however, demonstrate the far-reaching benefits of learning a foreign<br>
language. It helps students learn about another culture, enables them to<br>
cross cultural bounds more easily by appreciating and understanding<br>
differences and similarities, and develops critical skills of adaptability,<br>
empathy, communication and relationship building – all of which can be<br>
applied to any field. Learning a second language also enhances cognitive<br>
abilities and makes one<br>
"smarter"<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=1&" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=1&</a>>by<br>
enhancing math, science and even English language skills. Being able<br>
to<br>
speak another language increasingly helps recent graduates get good-paying<br>
jobs and then advance more rapidly in them.<br>
<br>
Research shows that students who begin studying a second language before<br>
age 13 <<a href="http://www.kennethreeds.com/uploads/2/3/3/0/2330615/article.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.kennethreeds.com/uploads/2/3/3/0/2330615/article.pdf</a>>have<br>
a much greater chance of becoming proficient. Coding, by contrast,<br>
does not take nearly the same amount of time on task that learning a<br>
foreign language does and thus does not need to begin so early.<br>
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If we want our students to be able to compete in the global marketplace, we<br>
must insist that they learn how to communicate and interact with others<br>
around the world. Learning to communicate with a computer can come later.<br>
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forwarded from <a href="http://nytimes.com" target="_blank">nytimes.com</a><br>
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Harold F. Schiffman<br>
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Professor Emeritus of<br>
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture<br>
Dept. of South Asia Studies<br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 12:03:43 +0100<br>
From: Dave Sayers <<a href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a>><br>
Subject: [lg policy] Language Landscape<br>
To: Language Policy List <<a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a>>,<br>
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I don't recall seeing this resource linked on here before, so here goes:<br>
<a href="http://languagelandscape.org/" target="_blank">http://languagelandscape.org/</a><br>
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It was launched in 2011, based on work by students and staff at SOAS. The main blurb is:<br>
<br>
"Language Landscape is a tool for mapping where languages are spoken around the<br>
world. Click on the markers to hear recordings of languages spoken in those locations."<br>
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It's clearly still very much in its infancy, but all the more reason to spread the<br>
word and contribute more data (with consent of course).<br>
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Dave<br>
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Dr. Dave Sayers<br>
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK<br>
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK<br>
<a href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a> | <a href="http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers" target="_blank">http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers</a><br>
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 15:18:06 -0000<br>
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Subject: [lg policy] Harold Schiffman has sent you - Berlin Twp.,<br>
police department sued over language barrier - from Courier-Post<br>
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Message from: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
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Berlin Twp., police department sued over language barrier<br>
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A Spanish-speaking woman arrested in 2012 after she left her two young children alone in a car has sued Berlin Township and its police department over the alleged lack of a trained translator during the incident.<br>
<br>
Check out this story on <a href="http://courierpostonline.com" target="_blank">courierpostonline.com</a>: <a href="http://on.cpsj.com/1glxuV8" target="_blank">http://on.cpsj.com/1glxuV8</a><br>
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Message: 4<br>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 08:58:15 -0700 (PDT)<br>
From: "Abdul Manan ." <<a href="mailto:rm_manan@yahoo.com">rm_manan@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: [lg policy] Politics, economics and identity: mapping the<br>
linguistic landscape of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br>
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Politics, economics and identity: mapping the linguistic landscape of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br>
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Syed Abdul Manana*, Maya Khemlani David, Francisco Perlas Dumanig andKhan Naqeebullah<br>
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(Received 19 January 2013; accepted 8 March 2014)<br>
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Abstract<br>
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This study explores the linguistic landscape of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Using photographs as a source of data, the study collects samples from both government and private signage from five selected neighbourhoods of the city. In addition to photographs, interviews with business owners have been conducted and used for triangulation purposes. The data suggest that multidimensionality marks the linguistic landscape of the city. The multidimensionality is embedded in the complex sociopolitical, economic and ethnolinguistic facets and trends the linguistic landscape demonstrates. The sociopolitical dimension signifies the officially laid-down monolingual Malay-oriented policies, which accentuate compulsory use of the national language Malay. Non-compliance to the official version of policy results in strict punitive actions. The economic dimension manifests in the prominent use of English for its advertising and symbolic potential. Similarly, the<br>
ethnolinguistic dimension denotes vitality and identity expressed by the Chinese and Indian communities in specific localities. The study argues that although the official policy is formulated and implemented with the intent of unifying a multiethnic population, discursive defiance to this policy at the bottom levels can be triggered by many reasons including pragmatism, religion or identity, and such defiance clearly transpires in the linguistic and semiotic representation of the signboards.<br>
Keywords: linguistic landscape; Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur; Malay; Chinese; Tamil<br>
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