[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 22, Issue 2

Sat Jul 4 20:18:34 UTC 2009

Forwarded From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu

Today's Topics:

  1. Need for Chinese language teachers growing, IU responding
     (Francis Hult)
  2. Please N.B. the Change in my E-mail from
     carloarturo at yahoo.com (Carlo Arturo)
  3. Opinion: It's Time for India to Teach in English (Francis Hult)
  4. Saudi Arabia: English as medium of instruction (Francis Hult)
  5. 2-year olds Possess Grammatical Insights (Francis Hult)
  6. Korea: English tests need more English (Francis Hult)
  7. Where Califonia lost its way in education (Francis Hult)
  8. Spoken Word and Hip-Hop Teacher and Commnity Leader       Training
     Institute (Francis Hult)
  9. US: The Death of Cursive (Francis Hult)
 10. Wales: Drop in modern language learning (Francis Hult)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:17:44 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Need for Chinese language teachers growing, IU
       responding
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Indiana University

Need for Chinese language teachers growing, IU responding

The third annual Chinese Pedagogy Institute concludes this week on the
Indiana University campus after two and a half weeks of intensive work
to prepare more teachers of the Chinese language. The institute is a
project of the Center for Chinese Language Pedagogy (CCLP) within the
College of Arts and Sciences. The study is worth four to five graduate
credits through the IU School of Education and counts toward
requirements for secondary teacher certification in Chinese.

Twenty teachers holed up in shared living quarters for a week at
Bradford Woods, the IU School of Health, Physical Education and
Recreation's outdoor center just north of Martinsville, then came to
the IU Bloomington campus. The participants came from Indiana and
states as far away as Florida, for the intensive coursework. It covers
either beginning or advanced language teaching based upon
participants' skill levels, then a field experience that involves
actually teaching language to students in Bloomington.

Full story:

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11273.html

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:22:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carlo Arturo <carloarturo at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Edling] Please N.B. the Change in my E-mail from
       carloarturo at yahoo.com
To: Edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
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My New e-mail will be:? carloarturo7 at gmail.com

Thanks for noting the change!
-C. McCoy

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:39:57 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Opinion: It's Time for India to Teach in English
To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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Via lgpolicy...

It's Time for India to Teach in English

By PAUL BECKETT

By the middle of this month, almost 90 schools across the country will
open their doors for a new year of teaching to about 18,000
predominantly Dalit schoolchildren. Their parents will pay tuition of
100 rupees a month to get their kids - and this is the key - an
education in English.

Full story:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124642022941378351.html

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:43:28 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Saudi Arabia: English as medium of instruction
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Arab News

English as medium of instruction

The English of Saudi university graduates is very poor. Since the
labor market in the Kingdom largely depends on foreign manpower,
English has necessarily become the language of business. Anyone who
does not master English will be in a weak position when competing for
a job. His or her chances for progressing in terms of career will be
severely compromised.

Faced by this situation, some Saudi universities that could not
improve their preparatory year for teaching English have thought of a
more radical step to confront the problem: To make English the medium
of instruction for specializations that are in huge demand in the
labor market. If this proposal is implemented, we could face a
cultural catastrophe.

Full story:

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=13&section=0&article=124214&d=2&m=7&y=2009

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:53:37 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] 2-year olds Possess Grammatical Insights
To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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Science News

2-year olds Possess Grammatical Insights

Two-year-olds know more about grammar than they can say. Budding
toddlers recognize the difference between nouns and verbs in simple
sentences, even though the kids don't utter such sentences for at
least another year, say Anne Christophe of the Laboratory of Cognitive
Sciences and Psycholinguistics in Paris and her colleagues.

Full story:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45173/title/2-year-olds_possess_grammatical_insights_

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:56:09 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Korea: English tests need more English
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JoongAng Daily

English tests need more English

Regarding the column "Leave language education to teachers" (June 26,
2009), the grab line used is "The country already has half a dozen
perfectly good English tests. Why do we need another?

As a longtime English teacher in Korea, I have to strongly disagree
that Korea has "perfectly good" English tests. My elementary school
students have been entertained numerous times by the gross errors that
they have found within some of the tests listed below:

Full story:

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2906834

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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:00:50 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Where Califonia lost its way in education
To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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Examiner.com

Where Califonia lost its way in education

Nationally recognized reading expert Louisa Moats stated in a report
to NNRF, "I surveyed the 55 participants of the California Reading
Academy, who were hand-picked leaders in language arts from the 11
county regions in California, on what they believed should change
about teacher preparation. I gave the survey after teaching them about
language structure and its relevance to learning to read and write.
Many of these leaders commented that the information about language,
reading, and spelling offered in the course was totally new to them
but critical for informed practice. They lamented the years they spent
teaching without this essential foundation. Although generally loyal
to the institutions that prepared them, these leaders were totally
supportive of more rigorous professional standards, a research-based
curriculum for teachers, and the requirement that professors be
scholars capable of modeling and supervising instruction."

Full story:

http://www.examiner.com/x-4959-Special-Education-Examiner~y2009m6d30-Where-Califonia-lost-its-way-in-education

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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:36:52 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Spoken Word and Hip-Hop Teacher and Commnity Leader
       Training Institute
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http://omai.wisc.edu/institute/

Spoken Word and Hip-Hop Teacher and Commnity Leader Training Institute

For young people to reach their full academic and artistic potential,
they need the support of their teachers and adult mentors. Many
adults, however, struggle to make their classes and programs relevant
to the changing culture and needs of today's youth. In order to bridge
this educational-generational gap, OMAI teams up with Urban Word NYC
to offer the 4th Annual Spoken Word & Hip Hop Educator's Institute at
UW-Madison July 6-10, 2009.

This year a two tiered institute will be offered for returning and new
participants.
University & CEU credit options available for interested individuals.

To view Course Requirements for Credit:

http://omai.wisc.edu/_images/download/CourseRequirementsforCredit.pdf

For Educator's Institute application and registration information,
contact Katrina Flores at kbflores at wisc.edu or 608-890-1006.

Space is limited.

For more info or other educator workshop possibilities throughout the year,
contact Willie Ney at 608-890-1055 or wney at wisc.edu

<http://omai.wisc.edu/_images/download/CourseRequirementsforCredit.pdf>

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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:39:09 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] US: The Death of Cursive
To: <edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu>
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Long Island Press

The Death of Cursive

Toby, 21, was an honor student at Walt Whitman High School in South
Huntington and is now a biology major at Stony Brook University. He is
about to take possession of his first apartment. His prospective
landlord hands Toby the lease to sign. His signature? He has none. He
scribbles his name. Like tens of thousands who were part of the whole
language experiment of the past three decades, Toby has been failed by
the system.

What Happened To Our Kids?

Why does our younger generation pretty much write in print today,
despite the fact that universally, students are taught cursive in
mid-elementary school?

If whole language, a teaching philosophy now known as balanced
literacy, has been the focus of our children's education for decades,
why do we see so many spelling and grammatical errors in everything we
read?

Full story:

http://www.longislandpress.com/2009/07/02/the-death-of-cursive/

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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:59:15 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Wales: Drop in modern language learning
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BBC News

Drop in modern language learning

Schools in Wales should do more to encourage pupils to learn modern
languages, say education inspectors.

They cite an award-winning teacher who encouraged her class by asking
three Spanish footballers with Swansea City to talk to her pupils in
Pembrokeshire.

Ten years ago 41% of pupils in Wales chose to do a foreign language at
GCSE. This had fallen to 28% two years ago.

Full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8131193.stm

End of Edling Digest, Vol 22, Issue 2
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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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