[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5

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Today's Topics:

  1. Ghana: Why Neglect the Deaf? (Francis Hult)
  2. American Sign Language 101: why not? (Francis Hult)
  3. US: Digital Game-Based Learning and is helping foreign
     language students (Francis Hult)
  4. Malaysia: New education policy to uphold Bahasa Malaysia,
     strengthen English (Francis Hult)
  5. Elana Shohamy -- Winner of the UCLES/ILTA Lifetime
     Achievement Award (Nancy Hornberger)
  6. When Should Linguists Disclose a Conflict of Interest?
     (Francis Hult)
  7. Announcing JLIE Special Issue 8 (5) (Kara McAlister)
  8. Texas: TCEP Receives $300,        000 Ford Foundation Grant To
     Address Latino/a Education Issues (Francis Hult)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:51:00 -0600
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Ghana: Why Neglect the Deaf?
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allAfrica.com

Ghana: Why Neglect the Deaf?

The deaf can do everything except hearing. People ignorantly refer to
them as also dumb, an assertion they greatly oppose since they can
express themselves. Their speech or articulatory organs are well
functioning. The deaf can laugh, smile, cry, shout and do all other
things that the abled bodied does except hear.

The greatest challenge for the deaf is communication which affects how
well they can interact with their hearing counterparts in society. Let
the deaf walk into a bank or other service providers and they really
find it difficult assessing any service. They are left to their own
mercies when they visit the hospitals, police stations, law courts and
others places of work.

Full story:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200912080844.html

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:55:16 -0600
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] American Sign Language 101: why not?
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The Daily Princetonian

American Sign Language 101: why not?

Like many other Princeton students, I spent my Fall Break not going
home and relaxing, but on one of the Pace Center's BreakOut trips,
learning about Deaf culture and public policy in Washington, D.C. One
of the key goals of the trip was to learn the basics of American Sign
Language (ASL), which turned out to be amazingly fun and rewarding. So
rewarding, in fact, that I'm writing a column to ask: Why doesn't
Princeton, which even offers Swahili and Sanskrit courses, offer some
kind of for-credit class in ASL?

Full story:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/12/08/24678/

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:40:08 -0600
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] US: Digital Game-Based Learning and is helping
       foreign language students
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The Pendulum

Professors push foreign language to the next level

Imagine having the luxury of traveling to another country and
experiencing the language and culture without the hassle of purchasing
a plane ticket or checking luggage.

This ideal situation is now possible with Digital Game-Based Learning
and is helping foreign language students at Elon University experience
the countries of the languages they are studying without ever leaving
their computer chairs.

According to David Neville, assistant professor of German and director
of language learning technologies, Elon is the only university in the
entire country that has begun to integrate DGBL into its foreign
language curriculum.

Full story:

http://www.elon.edu/pendulum/Story.aspx?id=3098

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:32:44 -0600
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Malaysia: New education policy to uphold Bahasa
       Malaysia,       strengthen English
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Via lgpolicy...

New education policy to uphold BM, strengthen English
News  2009-12-10 11:51

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 (Bernama) -- After seven tumultuous years, the
government has decided to abolish the Teaching of Science and
Mathematics in English (PPSMI), starting 2012. The hallmark decision
was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on
July 8, three months after helming the education ministry.
Muhyiddin's appointment as the education minister showed the
importance attached to education by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib
Tun Razak.

The PPSMI will be replaced by a new, two-pronged policy known as
"Upholding the Malay Language and Strengthening the Command of
English," which will not be disadvantageous to either PPSMI defenders
or opponents, but rather strike a balance between them. Muhyiddin
said, "The government's commitment in abolishing the PPSMI should not
be questioned, although it would start only in 2012. The decision is
final, come what may, we have reaffirmed our stand of not reverting to
the old policy."

Full story:
http://www.mysinchew.com/node/32623

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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:49:27 -0500
From: Nancy Hornberger <nancyh at gse.upenn.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Elana Shohamy -- Winner of the UCLES/ILTA Lifetime
       Achievement Award
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Dec 10 2009
 [LTEST-L] *

Prof. Elana Shohamy -- Winner of the UCLES/ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award

*On behalf of the review committee for the UCLES/ILTA Lifetime
Achievement Award (consisting of Sarah Briggs, Nick Saville, Carolyn
Turner and J Charles Alderson) it is a great pleasure to announce that
after carefully considering the several highly meritorious nominations
received from the field, *Professor Elana Shohamy* has been selected to
receive the Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented at the 32nd
ILTA/LTRC meeting which will be held in Cambridge, UK in April 2010.

Over a long career, Elana has maintained her programme of empirical
research, her insider critical critique of the basis of language
assessment and her concern for understanding the interaction between
language assessment and  language policy. After completing her PhD at
the University of Minnesota in 1978, she soon started to raise questions
about the nature and use of tests. It is particularly in this area that
her influence has been most felt: her recognition of the power of tests,
whether in education or in immigration, built the critical link between
testing and language policy, showing language tests to be one of the
most common instruments for enforcing language policy; her influence was
the core of the growing emphasis on ethics.

In her career, she has built a number of significant tests and has made
major contributions to the understanding of washback and other key
research areas. The quality of her research and scholarship has built
her a major place as a leader in the field, combining academic and
professional activities. Furthermore, her example and teaching have
built a generation of language testers who look to her as a leader. She
is Professor of Language Education at Tel Aviv University but she has
taught at a large number of universities in various parts of the world,
was the research director at the National Foreign Language Center in
Washington, DC, and is affiliated with CALPER (Center for Advanced
Language Proficiency Education at Research) at the Pennsylvania State
University.

She was one of the founders of an early national language testing group
(ACROLT), chaired the AILA Commission on Language Testing and
Evaluation, and served as President of ILTA in 1999. Apart from her own
extensive list of publications, she has played a major role in editing,
serving on the editorial boards of /Language Testing, Language
Assessment Quarterly/ and the /Modern Language Journal/ and as founding
co-editor of /Language Policy/.

Because of her many significant contributions over the years, the
committee is pleased to announce that Professor Elana Shohamy has been
selected to receive the 2010 UCLES/ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award.

J Charles Alderson
Chair, 2010 UCLES/ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award Committee

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:39:13 -0600
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] When Should Linguists Disclose a Conflict of
       Interest?
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Via lgpolicy...

When Should Linguists Disclose a Conflict?

December 15, 2009 @ 8:23 pm ? Filed by Geoff Nunberg under Language and the law

Questions about disclosure of possible conflicts of interest don't
arise very often in our field. I take that as that as a testament to
the economic insignificance of our results. There are plenty of people
who have a financial interest in linguistic research, but they rarely
have a stake in having it come out one way rather than another, the
way a pharmaceutical company does if it can show that drug X is more
effective than drug Y. You don't have to worry about ethical conflicts
when the author can be presumed to have an unequivocal interest in
doing the science right. They only become important when the author
might conceivably have an interest in doing the science wrong.

But these questions can arise when a linguist is engaged to testify as
an expert witness in a legal proceding and decides to revisit the
issue later in a scholarly talk or publication. In fact it was a
disagreement about just such a situation that provided the impetus for
a symposium at last January's LSA meeting on "Ethical Issues in
Forensic Linguistic Consulting."

Full story:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1961

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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:41:38 -0700
From: Kara McAlister <Kara.McAlister at asu.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Announcing JLIE Special Issue 8 (5)
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I've been asked to forward the Table of Contents for JLIE 8 (5), the
special issue guest edited by Drs. Teresa McCarty (Arizona State
University) and Leisy Wyman (University of Arizona).  Please find the
ToC below:

INDIGENOUS YOUTH AND BILINGUALISM - SPECIAL ISSUE

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE

Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism - Theory, Research, Praxis
   Teresa L. McCarty and Leisy T. Wyman

Indigenous Youth as Language Policymakers
   Teresa L. McCarty, Mary Eunice Romero-Little, Larisa Warhol, and
Ofelia Zepeda

Language, Identity, and Power: Navajo and Pueblo Young Adults'
Perspectives and Experiences with Competing Language Ideologies
   Tiffany S. Lee

"I Live Hopi; I Just Don't Speak It": The Critical Intersection of
Language, Culture, and Identity in the Contemporary Lives of Hopi
Youth
   Sheilah E. Nicholas

Situating Youth in Ecologies of Language Endangerment: A Yup'ik Example
   Leisy Wyman

"I Didn't Know You Knew Mexicano!" Shifting Ideologies, Identities,
and Ambivalence among Youth in Tlaxcala, Mexico
   Jacqueline Messing

COMMENTARIES

Indigenous Youth Bilingualism from a Yup'ik Perspective
   Walkie Charles

Indigenous Youth Bilingualism from a Hawaiian Activist Perspective
   William H. Wilson and Kauanoe Kaman?

En/countering Indigenous Bilingualism
   Ofelia Garc?a

Enquiries may be directed to jlielist at asu.edu

Many thanks,

Kara T. McAlister

Editorial Assistant, JLIE

on behalf of Drs. Ricento and Wiley

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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:29:21 -0600
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Texas: TCEP Receives $300,    000 Ford Foundation Grant
       To Address Latino/a Education Issues
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The University of Texas at Austin News

TCEP Receives $300,000 Ford Foundation Grant To Address Latino/a
Education Issues

December 18, 2009

The Ford Foundation has awarded the Texas Center for Education Policy
(TCEP) $300,000 for the 15-month planning phase of the Teacher
Education Institute initiative to be conducted by the National Latino
Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP).

The Teacher Education Institute is a national initiative that will
result in a more diverse and highly skilled teacher workforce equipped
with best practices for educating Latino/a and language minority
youth. The initiative and NLERAP are housed in TCEP under Dr. Angela
Valenzuela, associate vice president for school partnerships in the
Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at The University of
Texas at Austin.

Full story:
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/12/18/tcep_latinos_education/

End of Edling Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5
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 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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