[Edling] Share Your Memories of Bernard Spolsky

[Wright, Wayne E via Edling]

Thank you Francis for this invitation.

I shared on Twitter how Bernard was in the audience of my very first AAAL presentation when I was a brand new doc student, which was both a huge honor and bit terrifying, especially when he asked a really tough question at the end 😊. I had the honor of picking him up from the airport for ISB4 when it was held at Arizona State University, and will always treasure the conversation we had on the way and others we’ve had since.

Just last week I bought a copy of his 2021 book Rethinking Language Policy, and was blown away by how comprehensive it is. He has left us many groundbreaking scholarly treasures and I look forward to continuing to learn from his great work.

Best,

Wayne


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From: Edling <edling-bounces at lists.mail.umbc.edu> on behalf of Bessie Dendrinos <vdendrin at enl.uoa.gr>
Date: Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 6:04 PM
To: Educational Linguistics List <edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu>, lgpolicy at lists.mail.umbc.edu <lgpolicy at lists.mail.umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Edling] Share Your Memories of Bernard Spolsky
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Such immensely sad news for our academic community.
I had the pleasure of being inspired by his work and it was a privilege to have had a paper of mine included in the book he co-edited in honour of Elana Shohamy, on occasion of her retirement from her university post. I’m referring to the collection he edited with Ofra Inbar-Lourie and Michal Tannenbaum, published by Routledge in 2015: Challenges for Language Education and Policy: Making Space for People.
May he rest in peace
Bessie

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From: Edling <edling-bounces at lists.mail.umbc.edu> on behalf of "Francis M. Hult via Edling" <edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu>
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Date: Sunday, 21 August 2022 - 19:15
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Cc: "Francis M. Hult" <fmhult at umbc.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Share Your Memories of Bernard Spolsky

Dear Colleagues,

Professor Bernard Spolsky meant so much to many of us as a scholar, friend, and mentor.  He founded the field of educational linguistics, and he was a pioneer in the field of language policy.  As moderator of the Edling and Lgpolicy listservs, I invite list members to share their favorite memories of Bernard as a tribute to him.  I am cross-posting for those who are not on both lists.

Best,
Francis

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