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Today's Topics:<br>
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1. Congratulations, you've got the job ? as long as you can<br>
master a new language (Francis Hult)<br>
2. Bills asks California voters to consider restoring bilingual<br>
education (Francis Hult)<br>
3. Texas: Strategies vary in tough competition for bilingual<br>
teachers (Francis Hult)<br>
4. Uyghur Linguist, Two Associates Sentenced After One Year<br>
Detention (Francis Hult)<br>
5. Dual language teaching in American Samoa slammed (Francis Hult)<br>
6. Upcoming Education Summit: "Common Core: Demystifying And<br>
Finding Common Ground" (Kevin Martin)<br>
7. CFP: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition ?North<br>
America (Francis Hult)<br>
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:17:28 +0000<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@englund.lu.se">francis.hult@englund.lu.se</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Congratulations, you've got the job ? as long as you<br>
can master a new language<br>
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The Guardian<br>
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Congratulations, you've got the job ? as long as you can master a new language<br>
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Is it realistic to learn a language for a job? Louise Tickle, who attempted Welsh, looks at what it takes to master a new tongue<br>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/aug/13/learning-a-language-for-work" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/aug/13/learning-a-language-for-work</a><br>
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:20:23 +0000<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@englund.lu.se">francis.hult@englund.lu.se</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Bills asks California voters to consider restoring<br>
bilingual education<br>
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The Tribune<br>
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Bills asks California voters to consider restoring bilingual education<br>
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Californians would vote in 2016 to repeal the state?s ban on bilingual education under a bill the Legislature is sending to Gov. Jerry Brown.<br>
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Over Republican objections, the Senate passed Senate Bill 1174 Tuesday night, 25-10. The bill by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, would ask voters to amend parts of a prior ballot measure, Proposition 227, that require most public schools to teach in English only.<br>
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<a href="http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2014/08/26/3213816/bills-asks-california-voters-to.html?sp=/99/177/348//" target="_blank">http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2014/08/26/3213816/bills-asks-california-voters-to.html?sp=/99/177/348//</a><br>
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:22:24 +0000<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@englund.lu.se">francis.hult@englund.lu.se</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Texas: Strategies vary in tough competition for<br>
bilingual teachers<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:edling@bunner.geol.lu.se">edling@bunner.geol.lu.se</a>" <<a href="mailto:edling@bunner.geol.lu.se">edling@bunner.geol.lu.se</a>><br>
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Houston Chronicle<br>
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Strategies vary in tough competition for bilingual teachers<br>
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In some cases, bilingual teachers are wooed with extra pay topping $4,000 and are asked to sign contracts on the spot at job fairs. A handful of school systems, including Houston ISD, are hiring more teachers from Spain thanks to a state partnership with that country's education ministry.<br>
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<a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Strategies-vary-in-tough-competition-for-5708321.php" target="_blank">http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Strategies-vary-in-tough-competition-for-5708321.php</a><br>
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:26:44 +0000<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@englund.lu.se">francis.hult@englund.lu.se</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Uyghur Linguist, Two Associates Sentenced After One<br>
Year Detention<br>
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Radio Free Asia<br>
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Uyghur Linguist, Two Associates Sentenced After One Year Detention<br>
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A U.S.-educated Uyghur linguist and two others who wanted to set up schools to promote the ethnic minority language in China?s troubled Xinjiang region have been sentenced to up to three years on what their supporters see as trumped-up charges of ?illegal fundraising.?<br>
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In a case that has received international attention, the Tengritagh (in Chinese, Tianshan) district court in Xinjiang?s capital Urumqi imposed an 18-month jail term and a 80,000 yuan (U.S. $13,000) fine on Abduweli Ayup after detaining him for about a year, a relative of Ayup?s told RFA?s Uyghur Service.<br>
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<a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/language-08262014235118.html" target="_blank">http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/language-08262014235118.html</a><br>
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:27:59 +0000<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@englund.lu.se">francis.hult@englund.lu.se</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Dual language teaching in American Samoa slammed<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:edling@bunner.geol.lu.se">edling@bunner.geol.lu.se</a>" <<a href="mailto:edling@bunner.geol.lu.se">edling@bunner.geol.lu.se</a>><br>
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Dual language teaching in American Samoa slammed<br>
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Some senators in American Samoa are not convinced that using both Samoan and English for classroom instruction will improving test scores for students.<br>
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They are insisting English be the only language used for teaching.<br>
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<a href="http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/251339/dual-language-teaching-in-american-samoa-slammed" target="_blank">http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/251339/dual-language-teaching-in-american-samoa-slammed</a><br>
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Message: 6<br>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:03:37 +0000<br>
From: Kevin Martin <<a href="mailto:kevin@viu.edu">kevin@viu.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Upcoming Education Summit: "Common Core:<br>
Demystifying And Finding Common Ground"<br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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The Schools of Education and Public & International Affairs at Virginia International University (VIU) invite you to attend a National Summit on the "Common Core: Demystifying And Finding Common Ground" on November 1, 2014 (from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.). The event will take place at the Fairfax Government Center (12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, VA 22035).<br>
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The goal of this summit is to work toward demystifying the Common Core State Standards Initiative and to reach a common understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the initiative and how to move forward. The event will host three panel discussions bringing in perspectives from policy makers, school and district administrators, and teachers. The purpose of including all three voices is to expand the national discussion on the issue by giving an opportunity for all stakeholders to be heard in regard to the implementation and development of the Common Core. Attendees will emerge from the summit with a solid understanding of the initiative and will be empowered to affect positive change for their students, schools, and districts.<br>
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If you are interested, a flyer for the summit can be accessed here<<a href="http://newsletter.viu.edu/summit/2014_Summit_Flier.pdf" target="_blank">http://newsletter.viu.edu/summit/2014_Summit_Flier.pdf</a>> or visit our Education Summit website<<a href="http://summit.viu.edu/" target="_blank">http://summit.viu.edu/</a>>. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Kevin Martin (<a href="mailto:kevin@viu.edu">kevin@viu.edu</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:kevin@viu.edu">kevin@viu.edu</a>>).<br>
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Kevin J. Martin<br>
Director of the School of Education<br>
Conference on Language, Learning, and Culture Organizer<br>
General Education Director and Common Academic Core Chair<br>
Writing, Research, and Media Center Executive Director<br>
TESOL Higher Education Interest Section Assistant Chair<br>
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Virginia International University<br>
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Tel: <a href="tel:%28703%29%20865-8736" value="+17038658736">(703) 865-8736</a><br>
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:49:37 +0000<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@englund.lu.se">francis.hult@englund.lu.se</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] CFP: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition<br>
?North America<br>
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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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Abstract submissions are welcomed for the 6th bi?annual conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition ? North America (GALANA 6). GALANA 6 will take place on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, MD on February 19?21, 2015. This conference aims to provide an outlet for cutting edge work on language acquisition, relating results in first and second language acquisition to detailed hypotheses about developing grammatical representations, the mechanisms by which these representations are acquired, and the information processing mechanisms through which these representations are engaged in real time language use by first and second language learners. Invited speakers include Liliana Sanchez (Rutgers) and Antonella Sorace (Edinburgh, Bilingualism Matters). For the general session, abstracts are invited for original, unpublished generative research in all acquisition subfields: L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, bilingualism, creoles and pidgins, and language disorders.<br>
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In addition to the general session, there will be a special session entitled ?Learning in generative grammar: 50 years since the Evaluation Metric?. It has been 50 years since the publication of Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, which first introduced the idea of an evaluation metric as a way for learners to choose between alternative grammars that were compatible with their exposure. In the intervening years, conceptions of Universal Grammar (UG) have changed, and our understanding of children's grammatical knowledge at various ages has similarly advanced, but theories of how children use UG to interpret the data and how they use the data to select a grammar from UG have not been at center stage. In recent years, however, there has been a steady increase in work returning to this question, asking how different models (including rule learning, parameter setting, constraint ranking) of UG might help learners to use the input effectively to acquire a grammatical system. Invited speakers for this special session include Janet Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center), Lisa Pearl (UC Irvine), Bruce Tesar (Rutgers), and Charles Yang (UPenn). We also invite abstracts submissions for several additional talks that address the question of how a given grammatical formalism or set of grammatical principles helps to solve particular learnability problems in linguistics.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES:<br>
Submissions due: October 6th, 2014 at 5pm Eastern Standard Time Notifications by: November 21, 2014<br>
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IMPORTANT WEBSITES:<br>
GALANA 6: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/2015galana/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/2015galana/</a> EasyChair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=galana6" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=galana6</a><br>
GALANA 6 Organizing Committee<br>
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