[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 32, Issue 7
Harold Schiffman
haroldfs at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 20 22:53:51 UTC 2010
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Today's Topics:
1. UH Manoa hosts Chinese language immersion sports camp
(Francis Hult)
2. Britain facing humiliating decline in foreign languages, says
peer (Francis Hult)
3. U.S. Students Hurting in Foreign Languages (Francis Hult)
4. For Iraqis, learning Hebrew is a mixed blessing (Francis Hult)
5. Few States Meeting Goals of NCLB for English-Learners
(Francis Hult)
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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:18:06 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] UH Manoa hosts Chinese language immersion sports
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The University of Hawai'i System
UH Manoa hosts Chinese language immersion sports camp
The STARTALK/Confucius Institute Chinese language immersion sports
camp is now accepting applications for its three-week residential
program on the UH Manoa campus. Thirty motivated middle and high
school students, ages 12-17, with no or little experience in Chinese,
will be selected to participate. Half will be from Hawai'i and the
rest from the U.S. mainland. Participants will acquire basic
communication skills in Chinese, and use these skills to make friends
with each other during the camp, as well as getting to know
contemporary China and its culture. For physical activity, they will
practice table tennis and martial arts daily, under the tutelage of
championship level instructors from the People's Republic of China.
Alumni of the camp are invited to travel to China in subsequent
summers. The camp will begin on July 5 and end on July 23.
Full story:
http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=3633
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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:20:07 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Britain facing humiliating decline in foreign
languages, says peer
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Times Online
Britain facing humiliating decline in foreign languages, says peer
Britain is sliding towards a "humiliating decline" in its contribution
to world affairs because of dwindling foreign language teaching, an
independent peer has told The Times.
Baroness Coussins, a Cambridge modern languages graduate, criticised
Britain's dismissive and short-sighted attitude to languages.
Language lessons were to become mandatory in primary schools next year
but this was quietly dropped before the election. The number of
teenagers taking language GCSEs has fallen by a third since 2004, when
they became optional.
Full story:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7129116.ece
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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:23:51 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] U.S. Students Hurting in Foreign Languages
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Miller-McCune
U.S. Students Hurting in Foreign Languages
All you need to know about the study of foreign languages in the
United States is that many more middle and high school students are
studying the dead language spoken by Caesar and Nero than such
critically important tongues as Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Farsi,
Japanese, Russian and Urdu combined.
"Things cannot get worse. We are at the bottom of the barrel now" in
terms of foreign language study in America's schools, says Nancy
Rhodes of the Center for Applied Linguistics, which surveys language
study in the nation's schools every 10 years.
Full story:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/u-s-students-hurting-in-foreign-languages-13529/
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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:26:31 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] For Iraqis, learning Hebrew is a mixed blessing
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Dawn.com
For Iraqis, learning Hebrew is a mixed blessing
Wearing an elegant pink headscarf, Marwa Abdel Karim serenades her
fellow Baghdad University students with a heartfelt rendition of
"Filled With Love," remarkable for the language in which it is sung -
Hebrew.
She is one of the 150 students at the university's Hebraic department,
studying the language of Israel in an Arab country that has never had
ties with the Jewish state and where most people regard it as an
enemy.
For the first time since it was set up 40 years ago, the department
organised a festival earlier this month where students sang songs and
recited poetry for an enthralled audience of about 100, and gifted
tutors with presents.
Full story:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/31-for+iraqis+learning+hebrew+is+a+mixed+blessing-ll-02
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:33:08 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Few States Meeting Goals of NCLB for
English-Learners
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Education Week
Few States Meeting Goals of NCLB for English-Learners
Only 11 states met their accountability goals for English-language
learners under the No Child Left Behind Act in the 2007-08 school
year, concludes a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of
Education.
That same school year, 59 percent of school districts or district
consortia that receive federal money for English-language-acquisition
programs achieved all their goals for ELLs.
Full story:
http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/05/19/32evaluation-2.h29.html&destination=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/05/19/32evaluation-2.h29.html&levelId=2100
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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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