[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 44, Issue 6
Harold Schiffman
haroldfs at GMAIL.COM
Tue May 24 16:01:28 UTC 2011
Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
Today's Topics:
1. Learning by Experience: Strategies for Intercultural
communicative Skill Acquisition in L2 classroom (David Balosa)
2. US: Why Sudanese-American Children Are Learning Their
Parents' Language (Francis Hult)
3. Canada: ESL teachers about to become hot commodity (Francis Hult)
4. UAE: English language threatens Arabic (Francis Hult)
5. UK: The return of the Scots language (Francis Hult)
6. Researchers Use Video Game To Study Infant Language Learning
(Francis Hult)
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:35:48 -0400
From: David Balosa <dbalosa1 at umbc.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Learning by Experience: Strategies for Intercultural
communicative Skill Acquisition in L2 classroom
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Dear Colleagues,
I thought some of you might find this website interesting and informative.
http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/?tag=luxemburg
Best,
David
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 03:22:04 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] US: Why Sudanese-American Children Are Learning
Their Parents' Language
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PRI's The World
Why Sudanese-American Children Are Learning Their Parents' Language
There are now about 1,000 refugees from southern Sudan living in
Anchorage. Gatkuoth arrived in the city in 2008. Like many Sudanese
here, he left Nebraska when the economy went sour, hoping to find work
in the oil fields on Alaska's North Slope. But the oil companies
weren't hiring, so Gatkuoth found a good job with the Anchorage School
District, as a language and cultural liaison.
Full story:
http://www.theworld.org/2011/05/sudanese-american-children-learning-nuer-language/
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 03:26:22 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Canada: ESL teachers about to become hot commodity
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The Gazette
ESL teachers about to become hot commodity
The Education Department plans to expand intensive English in Grade 6
to all French public schools over the next five years. It predicts
about 1,235 extra teachers will be needed to teach those classes.
The question is: Where will these new teachers come from? Montreal
universities that offer teacher training for English as a second
language aren't swamped with applications; far from it.
Full story:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/editorials/teachers+about+become+commodity/4825550/story.html
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 03:34:49 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] UAE: English language threatens Arabic
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Gulf News
English language threatens Arabic
English is taking over the world, says English teacher Patricia Ryan
Abu Wardeh. And its status as a global language comes at the expense
of other languages, she argues.
After 30 years of teaching her native language in the Gulf, Abu Wardeh
has come to the conclusion that while English is an important
language, its status as a global language is overshadowing other
languages, including Arabic.
Full story:
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/education/english-language-threatens-arabic-1.810984
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 03:41:42 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] UK: The return of the Scots language
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The Guardian
The return of the Scots language
"Of course, many people no longer speak Scots - although their
grannies did. But I live in Aberdeen, where plenty speak it in its
pristine purity. Scots is fantastically expressive. Not knowing it is
a loss, a lack."
The government aims to rectify this, with an increased use of Scots in
education ("we want to see teaching about the nature of the language
and its literature," says McClure, "and to see teachers using Scots as
well as teaching it") and more celebration of Scots in communities.
Full story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/20/the-return-of-scots
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 03:44:54 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Researchers Use Video Game To Study Infant Language
Learning
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Gamasutra
Researchers Use Video Game To Study Infant Language Learning
Researchers have found a promising new way to study how infants learn
language, utilizing a video game narrated in an "alien language,"
according to the Acoustical Society of America.
A team consisting of members of the Carnegie Mellon and Stockholm
universities designed a game narrated with distorted sound that, while
unintelligible, accurately models the complexities of natural speech.
The only instructions in the game came by way of this "alien"
language.
Full story:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34740/Researchers_Use_Video_Game_To_Study_Infant_Language_Learning.php
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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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