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Computerworld
April 28, 2018
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South China Morning Post
April 28, 2018
Although ordinary North Koreans say South Koreans have trouble understanding their speech even though they both technically speak the same language, the two sides pointedly refrain from bringing along interpreters at high-level official meetings such as Friday's. There were no interpreters this time, justÃâà...
CBC.ca
April 28, 2018
Theodore Fontaine lost his language in his first year of residential school, where he was taught to feel ashamed of his culture, but 70 years later, he's relearning it at an informal weekly gathering at the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre.
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
April 28, 2018
“It is really about the importance of sign language,” ISD's ASL coordinator, Craig Kuhn, said. “We have been doing this program for more than 10 years. For the students and staff, we gather to recognize the importance of language and celebrate our language, which is American Sign Language. It gives theÃâà...
Marshalltown Times Republican
April 28, 2018
“The possibilities are pretty encouraging for Marshalltown, especially since we have such an advanced dual-language program in place.” She said the Iowa Department of Education must now decide on how schools are to implement the seal, adding Marshalltown will benefit from recognizing students forÃâà...
Burlington County Times
April 28, 2018
The language, named for Captain Victor J. Saracini, who piloted a United Airlines plane that was hijacked by terrorists on 9/11, requires lightweight wire-mesh cockpit barriers to be installed on new passenger aircraft. U.S. House representatives have advanced an airplane safety priority inspired by a BucksÃâà...
New Hampshire Business Review
April 27, 2018
Language skills are also essential for understanding the host country's educational and legal systems to enable them to become educated law-abiding citizens. Well-designed language programs that encompass these needs have the potential for ensuring successful integration of adult immigrants.
Seymour Tribune
April 14, 2018
“Before, my English was bad. Everyone knows that,” he said, smiling. “When I came to this school, my English, oh man!” At the beginning of this school year, Trinity began offering an English as a new language class, giving international students a chance to learn about the English language together.
Hyperallergic
April 14, 2018
Installation view of Enter the Mirror at Bortolami Gallery (all images courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York, photos by Ron Amstutz). Enter the Mirror, Richard Aldrich's fourth solo exhibition at Bortolami, opens with two works in the gallery's front hallway. The first is a small collage from 2002, “'TuckÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 14, 2018
I am writing to voice my thoughts on the English language subject in Hong Kong's educational system. As many people can tell, local schools are not teaching the English language, but English exam skills. In an effort to ensure that pupils get a good grade in the public examination, schools have becomeÃâà...
Bronx Times
April 14, 2018
A language-learning program for young people is setting up shop in a new location. The Primavera Italian Language Program is expanding the locations it serves with a new after-school program at St. Frances de Chantal School scheduled to kick off on Monday, April 16. This comes on the heels of anotherÃâà...
The Independent
April 14, 2018
In both instances, leads spoke a language other than English throughout its run time. Chinese actor Zhang Ziyi plays an engineer in Cloverfield, and all her lines are recited in Chinese. Mexican actor Martha Higareda's dialogue in Altered Carbon is primarily English, delivered with a hint of accent. HoweverÃâà...
Irish Times
April 14, 2018
Thousands of people are attending an Irish language street festival in Dublin city centre on Saturday, coming from all over the country for the 'Beo' (Alive) event. The festival took place in Merrion Square, and featured entertainment, music and speeches, with President Michael D Higgins addressing theÃâà...
Mashable
April 14, 2018
There's no test score at the end of this, and no one will judge you for the odd mistake, so see it as an opportunity to broaden your horizons and engage with people on the other side of that language barrier. Many online courses and apps base their learning around gamification — if fanfares and rosettes doÃâà...
Film School Rejects
April 13, 2018
In a new video, Grace Lee of What's So Great About That? seeks to examine the filmmaker's famously ambiguous work and its fraught relationship with language as a deeper phenomenon — rather than being simply weird for weird's sake, Lynch's visual work employs words “to make us aware of theirÃâà...
Futurity: Research News
April 13, 2018
People with a rare kind of dementia that initially attacks the language center of the brain end up recruiting other areas of the brain to decipher sentences, according to a new study. The study is one of the first to show that people with a neurodegenerative disease can call upon intact areas of the brain forÃâà...
Tribal Tribune
April 12, 2018
Omak – When Colville Confederated Tribes Language Program Manager Cree Whelshula opened up the microphone, the comments in honor of Anthony Mattina came in two languages. First was Nselxcin, the language to which Mattina has dedicated more than five decades of his life's work. Second wasÃâà...
VUE Weekly
April 12, 2018
Many countries have two or more official languages: Canada (two), Belgium (three), Switzerland (four), South Africa (11), India (23), and so on. They all have trouble balancing the competing demands of the various language groups. But Latvia has only one official language, a fact that causes the country noÃâà...
The Wire
April 12, 2018
Further, in answer to Banerjee's question on the promotion of Hindi and Bengali language abroad, Swaraj rolled out the boilerplate reply on government initiatives taken by the MEA “to spread Hindi worldwide”. “Indian leaders have delivered statements at the UN and other international forums in Hindi,”Ãâà...
The Australian
April 12, 2018
The new facility is to be called Naya Wa Yugali, meaning “we dance” in the local Darkinjung language. It will include purpose-built performance spaces and a tripling of residential accommodation for up to 150, opening it to more indigenous students nationwide. NAISDA, one of a group of eight peak artsÃâà...
Boston Herald
April 12, 2018
The Mattapan Early Elementary School — with a first-in-the-nation Haitian Creole dual-language program for early education — has been recognized with a $30,000 prize that will help it grow and become a model. The Phil H. Gordon Legacy Award from EdVestors, a nonprofit focused on improving urbanÃâà...
IU Newsroom
April 11, 2018
With every hop on a hopscotch square comes a number in Arabic, with every number comes a color, with every color comes a fruit, and with every hop comes learning. This is the approach the instructors of the "Bridges: Children, Languages, World" project take to ignite the passion for language and cultureÃâà...
Pacific Standard
April 11, 2018
The plot centers on an international band of deaf people, who, thanks to a genetic mutation, can channel superpowers through their use of sign language. The independent film is a fast-paced, genre-bending romp, shot on three continents with a cast made up entirely of deaf actors and CODAs (meaningÃâà...
Science Daily
April 10, 2018
In a novel study, "Personality Development through Natural Language," published in the international journal, Nature: Human Behaviour, Kevin Lanning, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a professor of psychology in Florida Atlantic University's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, together with FAU WilkesÃâà...
JSTOR Daily
April 4, 2018
A confusing and pedantic debate over language has insidiously redefined the very reason the second amendment exists. There are legitimate linguistic questions as to whether individual gun rights with few restrictions, as they're culturally perceived now, were even constitutionally intended in the first place.
South China Morning Post
April 4, 2018
The furore over Benny Tai Yiu-ting's independence remarks in Taipei should at least prove to young separatists bent on secession for Hong Kong that Mandarin is highly useful for the purpose. If nothing else, they need the language to communicate with their comrades and plot revolution in Taiwan.
Undark Magazine
April 4, 2018
The idea that language can shape perception and thought — a hypothesis formally known as “linguistic relativity” — harkens back to the 1930s. This hypothesis asserts that language doesn't just express ideas, it actively shapes them, determining how we understand the world around us. Initially met withÃâà...
Phys.Org
April 4, 2018
But the experience of most Australians when trying to learn a new language is more likely to resemble that of our prime minister who, a few years ago, wrote: "Learning any language at school is… difficult because there simply aren't enough hours in the school calendar for most students to achieve any realÃâà...
The Conversation UK
April 4, 2018
As a linguist, I was called in to design a distinctive language for the series. This is not as uncommon as it sounds – there have been a number of languages created over the years, for various reasons. The American linguist Arika Okrent lists 500 in her book In the Land of Invented Languages which goesÃâà...
Phys.Org
April 4, 2018
Following the introduction of the English language by missionaries and the collaborative effort with literate Hawaiians to create Hawaiian orthography, literacy rates in Hawai'i rose from near zero in 1820 to between 90% and 95% by midcentury. King Kamehameha III's call for national literacy was stronglyÃâà...
Green Bay Press Gazette
April 4, 2018
Seriously, what you and I know as the one-finger salute means the number 8 in a sign language that workers use in the Menominee Tribal Enterprises sawmill in Neopit. And no, I wasn't just being had; the workers have a whole vocabulary of hand and arm gestures, and when two different guys at twoÃâà...
The Hindu
April 2, 2018
... Bhagwat said at a book release in Balgandharva Rangmandir. “It [Congress-mukt Bharat] is a political slogan…it is not in the parlance of the RSS. The word mukt (free or liberated) is used in politics, and not part of the Sangh's lexicon. We never use the language of excluding anyone,” the RSS chief said.
Medical Daily
April 2, 2018
"Beyond simply becoming more positive or negative, people spontaneously shift toward using more emotional language when trying to persuade," explains researcher Matthew D. Rocklage of The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. While many try to understand what constitutes aÃâà...
TASS
April 2, 2018
Latvian is the only state language of the country, and Russian is considered foreign. Education reform at minority schools was launched in the Baltic state on September 1, 2004, triggering mass protests. A two-language education system was ultimately introduced, allowing the use of the Russian languageÃâà...
Elko Daily Free Press
April 2, 2018
Elko County Commissioners will hear a presentation from Debbie Heaton-Lamp, who is urging the county to make Spanish-language ballots and voter materials ... of Elko County citizens for voting with full knowledge of the state and local ballot questions, if they struggle with the written English language.”.
Droitwich Standard
April 2, 2018
WORCESTERSHIRE Children's Speech and Language Services has been named as an 'example of best practice' in an independent review of speech services in England, writes Tom Banner. The 'Bercow 10 Years On' report by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists details the nationalÃâà...
Associations Now
April 2, 2018
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that instead of speaking out fast about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, he wanted to speak carefully. The two needn't be mutually exclusive. By all accounts, Facebook has whiffed at crisis management in the past few weeks. Indeed, part of the problem is that it hardly botheredÃâà...
Herald-Mail Media
April 2, 2018
Shepherd University will host a faculty research forum from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education auditorium on the campus in Shepherdstown that will focus on education for students from families in which English is not the primary languageÃâà...
Winnipeg Free Press
April 2, 2018
OTTAWA — Advocates for French-speaking Manitobans are calling for tougher federal language laws, while praising the Liberals for promising to spend more money on official languages. The Liberals unveiled their plan for supporting official languages Wednesday. Over five years, they'll spend anotherÃâà...
Purdue Exponent
April 2, 2018
On Saturday, the audience at Fowler Hall took a whirlwind tour around the world through music, dance, poetry and other performances in a variety of languages. The tour was led by the Bangladesh Students Association in celebration of International Mother Language Day. Most of the performances were inÃâà...
OUPblog (blog)
April 2, 2018
My university just completed a round of strategic planning, its periodic cycle of self-evaluation, redefinition, and goal setting. Many of my colleagues were excited about the opportunity to define the future. Others were somewhat jaded, seeing such plans as bookshelf documents to be endured until the nextÃâà...
The Michigan Daily
April 2, 2018
Learning a new language is not easy, and as a consequence neither are its courses. Mathematics and the sciences are also languages, and language is something that one can never be fully fluent in, even for native speakers, who occasionally err orthographically and grammatically. As a math major whoÃâà...
The Mainichi
April 2, 2018
There are five courses ranging from introductory level Japanese to those for students looking to enter a Japanese high school. Four of the courses teach Japanese language exclusively, while the fifth teaches math, science, social studies, English and other subjects in Japanese. Each 45-minute class canÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 2, 2018
More than 400 congregants gathered at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Brookline for Spanish-language Easter Mass on Sunday afternoon, a marker of growth in Pittsburgh's still-small Latino community. St. Catherine of Siena's weekly Spanish-language Mass has grown from just 30-40 regular attendeesÃâà...
Global Voices Online
March 31, 2018
This story by Nicola Prentis for GlobalPost originally appeared on PRI.org on March 28, 2018, and is republished here as part of a partnership between PRI and Global Voices. The teacher holds up a pen in the first lesson and says, “It's my pen.” The students, English language learners who could be anyÃâà...
TRT World
March 30, 2018
The parliamentary session to approve the use of Albanian as an official language led to conflict with opposition Macedonian nationalists. The bill was passed in January and then again on March 14, 2018. (TRTWorld). A recent law on language in Macedonia has worsened long-standing tensions betweenÃâà...
WTXL ABC 27
March 30, 2018
(WTXL) - Superintendent of Schools Rocky Hanna released a statement apologizing for some of the language he used during the March For Our Lives Rally last weekend. In his statement ... I would like to apologize for some of the language I used to convey my feelings about arming school employees.
Bates News
March 30, 2018
And as a presenter pointed out during an education panel at last Friday's Mount David Summit, the numbers are even higher locally, where 25 percent of the students at Lewiston High School are ELL, due to the influx of immigrants and refugees to the city in recent years. With ELL instruction a national topicÃâà...
Great Falls Tribune
March 30, 2018
WASHINGTON — Federal curbs on sales of handguns have been written into a sweeping anticrime bill approved the Senate Judiciary Committee. The firearms controls fall short of what President Johnson asked, but in some other respects the legislation goes far beyond what he recommended to combatÃâà...
Good4Utah
March 30, 2018
ST. GEORGE (News4Utah) - A language class for children in Southern Utah is one of a kind. Tribal members say only 10 people now speak the Paiute language fluently, but a class at St. George's Red Mountain Elementary School is trying to change that. "I want to learn my language because it's goingÃâà...
