[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

Tue Aug 3 14:21:07 UTC 2010

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Today's Topics:

  1. Learning a Language From an Expert, on the Web (Francis Hult)
  2. Taiwan faces complex language legacy (Francis Hult)
  3. Ireland: The language of improvement at Irish camp (Francis Hult)
  4. LEARN Conferences on Critical Languages (Francis Hult)

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:59:43 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Learning a Language From an Expert, on the Web
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New York Times

Learning a Language From an Expert, on the Web

The message from the 14-year-old Tunisian skateboarder was curt.
"Totally wrong," he said of my French. My conjugation was off and I
should study spelling. On a scale of one to five, he said, my French
practice essay was worth a one. Then he disappeared into the anonymity
of the Internet.

Full story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/technology/personaltech/29basics.html?src=me&ref=general

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:02:27 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Taiwan faces complex language legacy
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AFP/Google

Taiwan faces complex language legacy

When Taiwanese scholar Shih Cheng-feng was a boy, he was forced to
speak a language that was not his own, and four decades later he still
feels handicapped by his education.

He grew up under a nationalist regime that had fled China and now
wanted him and everyone else to speak the dominant dialect of the
mainland, with the right Beijing accent.

Full story:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hQCWYHB_dRgmHaQhraDTZksGfx1A

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:04:43 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Ireland: The language of improvement at Irish camp
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Irish Times

The language of improvement at Irish camp

The Gaeltacht summer courses run by Col?iste Naomh Eoin in Dublin and
Wicklow are probably the most school-like camps you will find - but
those who sign up know that already. In fact, the organisers don't
even like the two-week courses - held mainly in secondary schools - to
be called summer camps, because they are serious about covering the
Irish curriculum in morning classes.

Full story:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/0730/1224275802043.html

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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 13:33:41 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] LEARN Conferences on Critical Languages
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Via ILR-INFO...

The Foreign Language Program Office of the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence (ODNI) and the National Cryptologic School (NCS)
are pleased to host a series of Language Education and Resources
Network (LEARN) conferences.

The purpose of the LEARN conference series is to provide language
professionals a venue to interact with their colleagues where they can
discuss and explore issues related to the science and technology of
foreign language education. The target audience for these conferences
includes instructors, course developers, and other language
professionals from U.S. government affiliated institutions.

Each conference will showcase a different language and will be
presented at different locations.

Spanish LEARN Conference <https://www.fbcinc.com/learnSpanish/default.aspx>
August 10-12, 2010
Southwest Learning Center
San Antonio, TX

Arabic LEARN Conference <https://www.fbcinc.com/learnArabic/default.aspx>
September 20-22, 2010
U.S. Military Academy
West Point, NY

Previous LEARN Conferences

Korean LEARN Conference <https://www.fbcinc.com/learnkorean/default.aspx>
April 27-30, 2010
Defense Language Institute
Monterey, CA

AFPAK LEARN Conference <https://www.fbcinc.com/learnAFPAK/default.aspx>
May 17-19, 2010
University of Nebraska
Omaha, NE

Chinese LEARN Conference <https://www.fbcinc.com/learnchinese/proposalcall.aspx>
July 20-23, 2010
Defense Language Institute
Monterey, CA

Security Assurances Workshop
<https://www.fbcinc.com/securityassurances/default.aspx>
December 2, 2009
Center for Advanced Study of Language
College Park, MD

Russian LEARN Conference <https://www.fbcinc.com/learnrussian/default.aspx>
July 22 - July 24, 2009

Chinese LEARN Conference
<https://www.fbcinc.com/learnchinese/archiveagenda.aspx?year=2009>
April 14 - 17, 2009

Arabic LEARN Conference <https://www.fbcinc.com/learnarabic/default.aspx>
February 19 - 21, 2009

Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi LEARN Conference
<https://www.fbcinc.com/learnhindi/default.aspx>
December 4 - 5, 2008

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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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