Fwd: FW: Seeking E De language researchers: please forward widely!

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*From:* Lesley Newman [newman.lesley at gmail.com]
*Sent:* Friday, October 19, 2012 2:56 AM
*To:* Lesley Newman
*Subject:* Seeking E De language researchers: please forward widely!

 Would you please forward the below request to your listservs?

 Thanks!

 E De is an indigenous language from the Central Highlands region of
Vietnam. We are looking for E De linguists and sociolinguists to support a
research project with scholars at the University of Danang College of
Language Studies. An abstract for the project appears below. Please contact
me or Nhu (nhuk24 at gmail.com) if you'd like the full research proposal:

 *Abstract:*
The Ede language has been focused on in Vietnam’s language
policy in recent years. Thanks to the Vietnamese government’s efforts to
preserve minority languages during the past few decades, the Ede language
has
been taught in many primary and secondary schools in the Central Highlands
province of Dak Lak, where new textbooks of the Ede language for ethnic
Ede students were circulated in 2011. However, a few textbooks, which are
mostly taught in a Viet - Ede bilingual language environment, are just
insufficient, offline materials. The existence of a digitalized lexical
database
could help facilitate a multilingual environment and wider distribution to
individuals via the channels of an Internet-based application and an
up-to-date Android application. In a country with rapid development of
Internet and telecommunication services like Vietnam, this vision should
not be ignored.

>From my personal belief that technology plays a crucial role in preserving
and distributing effectively precious linguistic data of minority
languages, I am strongly motivated by a desire to build up a web-based
application integrated with a downloadable Android application for tablets
and smartphones, which can be defined as instruments linking to extensive
an online archive of sounds, images, videos, and plain texts, in this case,
featuring Ede language.

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Lesley Newman
English Language Fellow
University of Danang
College of Foreign Languages
131 Luong Nhu Hoc St.
Danang City, Vietnam
(0165)5 336 129
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