News from the language world
The Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest English Learners Research Partnership and the New Mexico Public Education Department collaborated with a large urban district in New Mexico to study the characteristics and college readiness of students who earned different types of biliteracy seals (state, district, and global seals), the number of students who met some requirements for a seal […]
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The NML Polish Liaison, Olgierd Uziemblo of Warsaw University, introduced the plans for the first-ever World Endangered Writing Day on January 23, 2024, at the most recent meeting of the NML Language Leadership Council on September 18, 2023. The concept for this event was developed by the Endangered Alphabets Project, which has been working since
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This multilingual program, presented in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month by the National Museum of Language, will take attendees on a virtual cruise to Puerto Rico! A unique opportunity to learn about the country’s resources, food, and Spanish-speaking culture. NML Staff will share the Museums Spanish language resources and the Virtual Cruise elements. The presentation
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News from our President, Laura K. Murray, Ph.D. The National Museum of Language is a member of the International Network of Language Museums (INLM), a growing network of nearly 20 language museums from around the world. I attended the group’s most recent online meeting, which was held on June 20, 2023. The main topic was a
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News from our treasurer, Marjorie Kaplan By Marjorie Kaplan While scrolling through Twitter I saw a post from a medical doctor. She talked about a patient who was described to her as confused and unresponsive. “Does she speak English?” “Oh, yes, we’ve been talking to her in English, but her answers are slow and confused.”
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As you are making plans for your well-deserved summer break we want to remind you of a wonderful Summer Professional Development opportunity on July 24-25: NNELL’s Summer Summit! This year the theme for NNELL’s Summer Summit is “Unlocking the Power of Languages.” They have an exciting lineup of early language professionals who are presenting on
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Maryland State Liaison Dr. Richard Dabrowski, who oversees Russian andUkrainian instruction for government employees, spent two weeks in Poland inMay attending a special course in Ukrainian at the University of Warsaw. Hisreport on his trip, lightly edited was as follows: The timing of my current trip to Poland centers on a summer Ukrainian language and
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The North and South Carolina Association for Bilingual Education (CarABE), announces its inaugural event. It is an affiliate of the National Association for Bilingual Education. Across the two states, there has been a tremendous increase in bilingual students, families, and bilingual education programs. At this year’s Southeast Regional TESOL Conference (SETESOL) the organizers are hosting
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Missouri State Liaison Dr. Lisa Dorner reports that the University of Missouri at Columbia will host the annual Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) conference on June 7-10, 2023, in Columbia, Missouri. This is a multistate conference focused on the integration of Latin@s/Latinxs/Hispanics and immigrants in new destinations, and it provides a professional development opportunity
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Turkiye Liaison Gülşen Şencan is developing an original project is to create an Augmented Reality (AR) guide that transforms audio guides into sign language to facilitate access to museums for the hearing impaired. This project, titled “AR Museum Guide with Sign Language in Museums” will be based on exhibits in the Imaret Museum, located in
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