[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 34, Issue 8

Wed Jul 21 14:08:08 UTC 2010

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Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:33 PM

Today's Topics:

  1. Speak English, China decrees (Francis Hult)
  2. Perils await foreign students in Canadian homes,  study shows
     (Francis Hult)
  3. US: Revisiting the Native American Languages Act of 1990
     (Francis Hult)
  4. CFP: Computer-mediated discourse and interaction in second
     and foreign language learning and teaching (Francis Hult)

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Subject: [Edling] Speak English, China decrees
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The Australian

Speak English, China decrees

The Chinese capital is starting a campaign demanding that its
residents learn to speak at least a few sentences of English.

The drive demonstrates the dramatic changes that China has undergone
in the past few decades and how its focus in world affairs has
shifted.

In the 1950s, schoolchildren had to learn Russian to get ahead, while
in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, it was safer to speak no
foreign language at all rather than risk retribution under Chairman
Mao's rule.

Full story:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/speak-english-china-decrees/story-e6frg6so-1225891355837

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:40:42 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Perils await foreign students in Canadian homes,
       study shows
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The Globe and Mail

Perils await foreign students in Canadian homes, study shows

Thousands of foreign adolescents arrive in Canada to study English
every year, and many of them step off a plane into the care of a
homestay family. According to new research, they are also stepping
into a dangerously unmonitored industry.

Compared with immigrant or Canadian-born Asian students, the
researchers found that homestay students in British Columbia are up to
six times more likely to take cocaine and three times more likely to
binge-drink. They are more sexually active and skip school more often.
Nearly a quarter of homestay girls reported being sexually abused,
versus 9 per cent of their Canadian peers.

Full story:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/foreign-teen-students-more-likely-to-use-drugs-many-face-abuse-study/article1638282/

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:45:22 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] US: Revisiting the Native American Languages Act of
       1990
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Via lgpolicy...

Revisiting the Native American Languages Act of 1990

By Mary Ann Zehr on July 15, 2010 9:50 AM

At a summit for revitalizing indigenous languages held this week here
in Washington, a founder of a Native Hawaiian language-immersion
school asked Charles Rose, the general counsel of the U.S. Department
of Education, to "please look at" the Native American Languages Act of
1990. The educator was among several founders of language-immersion
schools who argued that provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act are
in conflict with the Native American Languages Act and a hindrance to
running language-immersion schools. I wrote about the educators'
petition to Rose for relief from some of those provisions in an
article published yesterday by Education Week.

Full story:

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/07/revisiting_the_native_american.html

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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:32:12 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] CFP: Computer-mediated discourse and interaction in
       second  and foreign language learning and teaching
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Via AAAL...

Canadian Modern Language Review

CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE

"Computer-mediated discourse and interaction in second and foreign
language learning and teaching"

The Canadian Modern Language Review (CMLR) invites manuscripts to be
considered for a special issue on "Computer-mediated discourse and
interaction in second and foreign language learning and teaching," to
appear in September 2012. We are interested in submissions that
showcase the discourse and interaction observed in computer-mediated
contexts both within and beyond formal, structured educational
contexts. Possible topics include, among others, negotiation of
meaning, focus-on-form(s), task-based language learning and teaching,
mediation, zone of proximal development, scaffolding, assisted
performance, turn-taking and the sequential organization of
interaction, repair, uptake, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in any
type of computer-mediated communication or discourse (e.g.,
synchronous chat, blogs, forums, email, wikis, social networking
sites) in any participation structure or context (e.g., between
learners within the same institution, telecollaboration, informal
learning or noneducational contexts). We also seek to promote the
critical discussion of theoretical constructs and methodological
traditions in second language acquisition and discourse/interaction
studies as extended to computer-mediated discourse and
computer-mediated interaction research. In addition to empirical
research reports, we encourage submissions focusing on classroom
praxis (cf. the CMLR "Focus on the classroom" rubric). We welcome
articles in English or French presenting original research. Submitted
articles will be undergo the normal peer review process of the CMLR.

Final deadline for submissions: October 31, 2011.

For submission information, visit http://www.utpjournals.com/cmlr or
contact us at cmlr at utpress.utoronto.ca. Receipt of all manuscripts
will be acknowledged within one week of their arrival.

Questions about the special issue may be addressed to the co-editors:

Lawrence Williams

University of North Texas

lawrence.williams at unt.edu

R?mi A. van Compernolle

The Pennsylvania State University

compernolle at gmail.com

La revue canadienne des langues vivantes

APPEL ? SOUMISSIONS

NUM?RO SP?CIAL

? Le discours et l'interaction m?diatis?s par ordinateur dans
l'apprentissage et l'enseignement des langues secondes et ?trang?res ?

La revue canadienne des langues vivantes (RCLV) invite la soumission
de manuscrits pour un num?ro sp?cial consacr? ? ? Le discours et
l'interaction m?diatis?s par ordinateur dans l'apprentissage et
l'enseignement des langues secondes et ?trang?res ?, qui para?tra en
septembre 2011. Nous nous int?ressons surtout ? des analyses du
discours et des interactions observ?es en ligne dans et en dehors des
contextes institutionnels structur?s. Les sujets propos?s sont, entre
autres, la n?gotiation du sens, l'enseignement ax? sur la forme,
l'apprentissage et l'enseignement par les t?ches, la m?diation, la
zone de d?veloppement proximal, l'?chafaudage, la performance
collaborative, l'organisation s?quentielle des tours de parole et de
l'interaction, la reprise ou la non-reprise et la r?paration ou la
correction (analyse conversationnelle) et les dimensions
sociolinguistiques et pragmatiques dans tous les types de discours et
interactions m?diatis?s par ordinateur (par ex. : le clavardage
synchrone, les blogues, les forums, le courriel, les wikis, les
r?seaux sociaux) dans  une grande vari?t? de structures de
participation et de contextes (par ex. : des apprenants au m?me
?tablissement scolaire, la t?l?collaboration, l'apprentissage informel
ou des situations non structur?es). Nous visons ?galement ? promouvoir
des discussions critiques sur les cadres th?oriques et les traditions
m?thodologiques dans le domaine de l'acquisition des langues secondes
et celui des ?tudes sur le discours/l'interaction et leurs
applications aux recherches qui portent sur le discours et
l'interaction m?diatis?s par ordinateur. En plus d'?tudes empiriques,
nous encourageons des soumissions qui traitent de la pratique dans la
salle de classe (cf. la rubrique

? Pleins feux sur la classe ? de la RCLV). Nous invitons la soumission
de toute recherche originale r?dig?e en fran?ais ou en anglais. Tous
les articles soumis feront l'objet du processus habituel d'?valuation
de la RCLV.

Date limite de soumission : 31 octobre 2011

Veuillez consulter le lien suivant pour tous les renseignements
concernant la soumission de manuscrits:
http://www.utpjournals.com/cmlrf/cmlrf.html ou contactez
cmlr at utpress.utoronto.ca

Pour toute autre question concernant ce num?ro sp?cial, veuillez
contacter les cor?dacteurs :

Lawrence Williams

University of North Texas

lawrence.williams at unt.edu

R?mi A van Compernolle

The Pennsylvania State University

compernolle at gmail.com

posted by T Hawkins, UTP Journals

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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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