FYI, this is another interesting case evolution of language and educational policies to more multilingual approaches. Interesting parallels to some other...
Dear MLE friends. I am mahendra mishra from Orissa, India. I am working on 10 ethnic minority languages in aorissa and now the material development is...
FYI. This compilation apparently follows up on another published several years ago. From the publisher's site see: * http://tinyurl.com/yc5zzq for Vol. II...
FYI, this paper may be of interest for those who haven't already seen it... DZO Dutcher, Nadine. 2004. "Expanding Educational Opportunity in Linguistically ...
FYI, LDL "Linguistic diversity and literacy in a global perspective / Diversité linguistique et alphabétisation dans une perspective globale" is a project...
FYI (fwd from MultiEd-L)... DZO The Independent Bilingual pupils do better in exams, report finds By Richard Garner, Education Editor 31 October 2006 ...
Google recently set up a portal for information on literacy at http://www.google.com/literacy/ . I haven't had time to look at it in any detail, but if anyone...
Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta has a question very pertinent to discussing multilingual literacy, and that is the number of languages with writing systems. I will offer...
This item is of interest for several reasons. Note the mention of UNESCO's modified approach to literacy. DZO SIL International Media Release UNESCO endorses...
FYI. This announcement was posted on Linguist list a while back but I'm only getting to it now. Note call deadline of Oct. 13... DZO Date: 23-May-2006 From:...
FYI, this annual conference is coming up next month. (Info from Linguist list)... DZO Full Title: Boston University Conference on Language Development 31 ...
There was an interesting comment on the recently formed "AfrophoneWikis" group* concerning goals of education re literacy in Senegal. The background is that...
FYI. This title may be of interest for its focus on factors other than language and learning multilingual education (and by extension perhaps literacy)...
FYI, info on 2 recent issues of this semiannual journal. The journal homepage is http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=WL%26L (Fwd from...
I've just added links to the Onderzoekscentrum voor Meertaligheid, Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (Research Centre on Multilingualism, Catholic University of...
Hello, I am Mahendra kumar Mishra, state Tribal Education Coordiinator in Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority,(OPEPA) Govt. of Orssa in the...
FYI, from the SIL Cameroon pages at http://www.sil.org/africa/cameroun/index.html : Research Project Being Planned to Assess the Effectiveness of Mother Tongue...
Linguist David Crystal, in his "The Language Revolution" (2004) discusses, among other things, multilingualism and how we might understand it better. Some of...
FYI. This issue of this journal (which I do not post about regularly on M_L) has some articles that may be of interest. The title of the article by Robertson...
I'm interested in knowing of any summaries of literature on the learner's experience in education in a second language (L2), that is not their maternal...
FYI, 3 issues of this journal (info from the Journal page http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/journals/journals_ijm.asp?TAG=&CID= and Linguist list)......
