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PDF #102 – N.S. Prabh – Second Language Pedagogy
This book aims to present a particular view of second language pedagogy, together with an account of a five-year project of exploratory teaching which helped to articulate that view and to develop procedures of teaching consistent with it.
West Nipissing council undertakes a major overhaul of its bilingualism by-law
Big changes are coming to the Municipality of West Nipissing and its bilingualism by-law. By June all municipal forms for the public will be made available in both English and French. The municipality’s website will also be redesigned by June and will contain information in both official languages. Other things like news releases, social media posts, public notices as well as advertising and marketing will be done in both languages. The change is the result of a complaint from Denis Labelle who told the municipality there are areas of the current by-law that are not being followed. Learn more about this topic by reading on MyWestNipissingNow.
PDF #101 – T Silva – Second Language Writing
In light of increasing globalization and written eletronic communication, worldwide interest in second language writing has increased rapidly during the past 25 years.
English language: We’re going through changes
The times they are a-changing and language is a-changing with them. Since languages are organic creations of human culture, as that culture changes so too do they. The language used by Shakespeare is so different to modern day English that secondary school students usually reach for their dictionaries. That’s quite old, but even texts from the Victorian or Edwardian era sound very strange to a modern ear. A lot of people ejaculate in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels, yet the modern meaning of the word gives the whole thing a comical feel. Learn more about this topic by reading on TheBogotaPost.
PDF #100 – Julie A Van Dyke – The Role of Memory in Language and Communication
Lnaguage comprehension requires the ability to construct linguistic dependencies between nonadjacent constituents.
Some people pick up languages like colds, or sunburns—without effort, through simple immersion in the atmosphere. Others can’t hear the word ‘conjugate’ without flashing back, in shame, to the classrooms where they failed, so long ago, to shake the curse of monolingualism.
Learn more about this topic by reading on Gizmodo.
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PDF #99 – Kenji Hakuta and Eugene E Garcia – Bilingualism and Education, 1989, Uni of California
The concept of bilingualism ps applied to individual children and to educational programs is discussed, and the history of research on bilingual children and bilingual education programs in the United States is reviewed.
The Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township has longest-standing dual language program in the state with Forest Glen Elementary, which opened in 1993. Now, the township is continuing its efforts in implementing dual language programs throughout the district.
Learn more about this topic by reading on YouAreCurrent.
After reading “Learning an L2 in a troubled world” you can check important issues for ESL teachers on the section PDFs, and visit my YouTube channel.
PDF #98 – Gustavo Rubino Ernesto – How English came to be Brazil’s second language
This paper will look on the events that let Brazil, a country with more than two hundred million people, to adopt a language that has never been directly influenced before over its five hundred years of history. Brazil has had many periods of mass migration, but it has never held an Anglo-Saxon flood of immigrants. This paper will also present in details the reasons and influences that led this gigantic country to choose English as its second language.
State government would stick to the two-language formula is expected to bring to an end the raging controversy over the National Education Policy but a perusal of the State’s history reveals that the language question has always been a sensitive subject.
Learn more about this topic by reading on TheHindu.
After reading “Learning an L2 in a troubled world” you can check important issues for ESL teachers on the section PDFs, and visit my YouTube channel.