News from the language world
October 2024 News from our Language Leadership Council Liaison Freddie Bowles The spring 2024 submission for the Arkansas Seal of Biliteracy (ASOB) once again exceeded previous applications. 776 Arkansas high school students earned the Seal demonstrating their proficiency in English and one or more other languages by high school graduation. Forty-eight schools participated with four […]
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Our Senior Advisor Dr. Rosa Castro-Feinberg has informed us of a new online, graduate program in bilingual education offered by the University of Puerto Rico. The overview of this program describes its background and intent: For more than one hundred years, the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico and more recently its
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See below for the presentation NML Trustee Dr. Louise I. Greene Rodríguez gave at the 104th conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguesein San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was titled “Bocadillos Linqüísticos: Recurso Instruccional Tecnológico para Valorar Nuestras Races en el Salón de Español”
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University of Iowa German Department Launches Major Multifaceted Anne Frank Commemoration Project On April 29, 2022, a new tree was planted on the University of Iowa’s Pentacrest—a sapling propagated from the immense horse chestnut tree that grew in the courtyard behind the annex where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis for 761
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Welcome to the rich heritage of language and culture from Mississippi. With over 60 languages used by students throughout the state, we appreciate a diverse background of cultures. Fall 2023 was full of vibrant language, cultural activities, and conferences in Mississippi. Hispanic Heritage Month celebration took center stage with school, college, and community functions.
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On Sunday, April 24, the National Museum of Language will have a booth at the 31st annual Rockville Science Day in Rocksville, Maryland! Linguistics is a science with a systematic approach, like other sciences, using study, observation, and experimentation. At our booth, we will give visitors a chance to observe a variety of authentic examples
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The next International Society for the Linguistics of English Summer School will take place between 4th and 8th July 2022. The meeting will address the theme: The Empire Speaks Back in a Postcolonial Dialect: Decolonising English Linguistics for the 21st Century. It will be hosted by Prof. Karen Corrigan (current ISLE President). The venue will be Newcastle University, UK where Dr Martin
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III International Conference on Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages (View the conference website) The III International Conference on Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages (III CIRLIM) will be held on 13-16 September, 2022 in two venues: the University of Girona (in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education and Psychology) and the
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From Patrick Wallace, Program Specialist, Georgia Department of Education Curriculum & Instruction / World Languages and Global Workforce Initiatives There is a great deal happening in our area and I’m excited to share some updates with you as we move further into 2022. I struggle to think of a time when world languages had more
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Thirty-four Ways of Looking at the Moon in Warsaw The current edition of the Loch Raven Review, a periodical devoted to showcasing the works of new and established writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and reviews, has published a remarkable project conceived by its long-time Translations Editor, Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka. For this global project, she selected
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