[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 49, Issue 5

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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: citizens getting involved in macro-language policy
     creation (Cynthia Groff)
  2. Re: citizens getting involved in macro-language policy
     (HALEY J DE KORNE)
  3. New Issue of Reading in a Foreign Language (Francis Hult)
  4. CFP: 5th International Independent Learning Association
     Conference 2012 (Shannon Sauro)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:19:25 -0400
From: Cynthia Groff <cgroff at alumni.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: [Edling] citizens getting involved in macro-language
       policy  creation
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There must be examples in India where new languages have been recognized /
added to the list of scheduled languages in the Constitution several times
(up to 22 now). Activists are busy trying to get more added.

2011/10/11 Johnson, David <johnsondc at wsu.edu>

>  I am wondering if list members might share examples of "everyday
> citizens" (whether academics, educators, or anyone else) getting involved
in
> national or state-level language policy initiatives. What are the channels
> through which an interested individual can have an impact on the creation
of
> macro-level language policies? Examples might include the work of PRAESA
in
> South Africa, the political activism in favor of French in Canada, and
Maori
> revitalization in New Zealand, all of which have relied on citizens taking
> action who have had an impact on national language policies. Could list
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:37:35 +0000
From: HALEY J DE KORNE <hde at gse.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: [Edling] citizens getting involved in macro-language
       policy
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Hello,

Re: citizens getting involved in macro-language policy 2 things come to
mind: The report on the grassroots development of the Washington state
policy that supports the First Peoples' Language & Culture certification
program is available at the link below.  I recommend the 2007 Final Report.

http://www.pesb.wa.gov/home/firstpeople

Similar grassroots efforts have resulted in similar policies in quite a few
other states (e.g. Michigan), but I don't know of any other reports/
publications actually documenting this (other than Larisa Warhol's great
work, already mentioned here).

And a more individual story, of Kenny Pheasant, an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)
teacher in Michigan who got Grand Traverse County to reverse their decision
to make English the official language of the county. County-level might seem
small, but it's significant locally.  I heard the story from him years
later-- but here's a recent article where the event is written about (para
9), in addition to his overall teaching & mission.

http://www.mynorth.com/My-North/June-2011/Aanii-hello-Kenny-Pheasants-Quest-Odawa-Language-for-the-Masses/

Best regards,
--
Haley De Korne

PhD student in Educational Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
https://sites.google.com/site/haleydekorne/
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:14:24 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] New Issue of Reading in a Foreign Language
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The October 2011 issue (Volume 23, Number 2) of the electronic journal
Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) is now online and can be read at

http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2011/

In this issue, Patrick B. Judge reports on a long-term, multi-case study
examining the motivations of eager readers in an extensive reading program
at a private Japanese high school. In the second article, Cindy Brantmeier,
Aimee Callender, & Mark McDaniel examine the effects of embedded "what"
questions and elaborative "why" questions on reading comprehension with
advanced second language learners of Spanish. And finally, Jing Wang &
Christine H. Leland report on their study of what beginning learners of
Chinese perceive as helpful in learning to recognize characters.

This issue also includes two book reviews:

Zahir Mumin reviews Studies in Language Testing 29: Examining Reading:
Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Reading by Hanan Khalifa
& Cyril J. Weir. And the series of Real Reading: Creating an Authentic
Reading Experience 1-4 by Lynn Bonesteel, David Wiese, & Alice Savage is
reviewed by Pakize Uludag & CeAnn Myers.

We also have a discussion in this issue, in which John P. Racine comments on
an article by Meara & Olmos Alcoy that appeared in Volume 22, #1, April
2010.

In the last section of this issue, Cindy Brantmeier, Xuicheng Yu, and Tracy
Van Bishop have a feature on Readings on L2 Reading: Publications in Other
Venues 2010-2011.

RFL is a scholarly, refereed journal published on the World Wide Web by the
University of Hawai`i, with Richard R. Day and Thom Hudson as the co-editors
and Anne Burns, Macquarie University, as the reviews editor.

The journal is sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center
(NFLRC), the University of Hawai'i College of Languages, Linguistics and
Literature, and the University of Hawai'i Department of Second Language
Studies. The journal is a fully-refereed journal with an editorial board of
scholars in the field of foreign and second language reading. There is no
subscription fee to readers of the journal. It is published twice a year, in
April and October. Detailed information about Reading in a Foreign Language
can be found at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl

Aloha,

Hanbyul Jung
Assistant Editor
Reading in a Foreign Language

http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:03:05 -0500
From: Shannon Sauro <shannon.sauro at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] CFP: 5th International Independent Learning
       Association     Conference 2012
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5th International Independent Learning Association Conference 2012
Sponsored by Victoria University of Wellington

When:  Thursday 30 August ? Sunday 2 September 2012
Where: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Call for Papers Reminder

The Conference Committee welcomes proposals for workshops, papers,
colloquia, learning fair, swap shop, and poster sessions. The Call for
Papers deadline for submissions is less than one month away.  Get your
submission in quickly to help shape the conference programme!

For full details and to begin the submission process, visit the conference
website: http://www.ila.net.nz/ .

The deadline is Friday 4 November 2011.

For further details about ILAC 2012, please contact the Conference
Organisers Paardekooper & Associates:
Phone: +64 4 562 8259
Fax: +64 4 562 8269
Email: ila at paardekooper.co.nz
Web: www.ila.net.nz

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Shannon Sauro, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
University of Texas at San Antonio
http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/ssauro/

The CALLspot - a podcast about computer-assisted language learning
http://callspot.libsyn.com

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