16.2175, Media: BBC: Will the Olympics help languages?

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Date: 15-Jul-2005
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: BBC: Will the Olympics help languages? 

	
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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:00:22
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: BBC: Will the Olympics help languages? 
 


The BBC Website  Saturday, 9 July, 2005

Will the Olympics help languages?
By Mike Baker 

     Clearly it should encourage sport in schools but perhaps it could also
provide a desperately needed boost to improve our dreadful international
record in learning foreign languages?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4665411.stm


        Karen Chung
        http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/
        http://lists.topica.com/lists/phonetics/ 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
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