[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 33, Issue 14
Harold Schiffman
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Thu Jun 24 17:49:10 UTC 2010
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Date: Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:35 AM
Today's Topics:
1. Campaign to save the Arabic language in Lebanon (Francis Hult)
2. 'A Little Book' Helps Kids Learn To Love Language (Francis Hult)
3. Stanford Profs Oppose Arizona Stance on Teachers'Accents
(Francis Hult)
4. A collaboration between UCLA and the Los Angeles school
district aims for the kind of bilingual excellence that's common
in Europe. (Francis Hult)
5. US: Theater performs plays in the Creek Language (Francis Hult)
6. India: Beeline for foreign languages (Francis Hult)
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From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Campaign to save the Arabic language in Lebanon
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BBC News
Campaign to save the Arabic language in Lebanon
When Randa Makhoul, an art teacher at a school in Beirut, asks her
students a question in Arabic, she often gets a reply in English or
French.
"It's frustrating to see young people who want to speak their mother
tongue articulately, but cannot string a sentence together properly,"
she said at the Notre Dame de Jamhour school in the Lebanese capital.
Mrs Makhoul is just one of several Lebanese teachers and parents who
are concerned that increasing numbers of young people can no longer
speak Arabic well, despite being born and raised in the Middle Eastern
country.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10316914.stm
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:14:45 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] 'A Little Book' Helps Kids Learn To Love Language
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Nationa Public Radio
'A Little Book' Helps Kids Learn To Love Language
Some linguists lament that in the digital age, once-sacred grammar
skills will be lost in the shorthand shuffle of texting and tweeting.
But language expert David Crystal isn't worried. In A Little Book Of
Language, he writes about how kids actually do love words. The book,
geared toward young people, traces the history and the future of
language.
A Little Book Of Language is an echo of an earlier title, E.H.
Gombrich's A Little History of the World. Gombrich was inspired to
write the book because "a little girl wrote to him and said, 'Please
tell me about the history of everything,' " Crystal explains in a
conversation with NPR's Neal Conan.
Full story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127860115
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:18:14 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Stanford Profs Oppose Arizona Stance on
Teachers'Accents
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Via lgpolicy...
Stanford Profs Oppose Arizona Stance on Teachers' Accents
By Mary Ann Zehr on June 23, 2010 8:55 AM |
A long list of professors from Stanford University's school of
education have signed a statement condemning the Arizona Department of
Education's stance that teachers with strong accents shouldn't be
teaching English-language learners. "Not only is Arizona's policy
based on uninformed linguistic and educational assumptions, but such a
policy also has the potential to unfairly target Latina/o teachers and
their students by removing the very teachers who may be best qualified
to teach them," the statement says.
Full story:
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/06/stanford_profs_condemn_arizona.html
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:19:00 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] A collaboration between UCLA and the Los Angeles
school district aims for the kind of bilingual excellence that's
common in Europe.
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UCLA's New School of Thought
A collaboration between UCLA and the Los Angeles school district aims
for the kind of bilingual excellence that's common in Europe.
By Angilee Shah
In many ways, Io McNaughton's classroom is a lot like others in the
Los Angeles Unified School District. Most students in the school -
located in the center of the city, between Pico Union and Koreatown -
are Latino and from low-income households; half are English-language
learners. McNaughton has the same challenges as any elementary school
teacher. She motions across the room to a group huddled on a plush
rug, talking in their "outside voices." "Turn down the volume," she
says with her hands, twisting an imaginary television dial. One girl
in the middle of the room looks like she might burst into tears; a
teaching assistant feels her forehead and decides to send her home.
Full story:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/education/ucla-s-new-school-of-thought-16747#
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:23:44 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] US: Theater performs plays in the Creek Language
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Native American Times
Theater performs plays in the Creek Language
Billy Chalakee remembers growing up as a young Muscogee (Creek) boy
listening to his grandparents and parents talk in their Native
language.
Even the family's church sermons were delivered in Creek. But
Chalakee, 72, never really caught on to the language.
"I never did pick it up," he said. "No one ever stopped to teach me. I
knew some of the words when they asked me a question or talked to me,
and I could understand what they said. But as for getting into
conversation, I couldn't pick it up."
Full story:
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3804:theater-performs-plays-in-the-creek-language&catid=43&Itemid=19
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:25:25 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] India: Beeline for foreign languages
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The Times of India
Beeline for foreign languages
In an age of globalisation, where everyone wants to move out of the
box and aim for the sky, people are increasingly showing interest to
learn foreign languages. Driven by a strong desire to work in foreign
countries and embassies, not only students but people in their
thirties or forties, show a keen interest to learn languages like
French, German, and Spanish. With full support from the city colleges,
students are capitalising on the opportunity and enrolling for such
courses. Compared to all the languages, French has a clear edge.
Full story:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Beeline-for-foreign-languages/articleshow/6077103.cms
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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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