Apocalypse of deeper communicative meaning: in teaching and learning Greek as a second language: Salomi Papadima describes a useful strategy for teachers with an eclectic approach who teach languages cognate with English.
ABSTRACT We often speak about developing students' cultural and intercultural awareness as part of the language learning process. However, these elements are often dealt with superficially and the methods used are somewhat unclear to many practitioners and to learners themselves. As a result, we very often hear...

Why the intercultural matters to language teaching and learning: an orientation to the ILTLP program.
ABSTRACT The Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning in Practice (ILTLP) Project is a large scale, national professional learning program designed to extend the understanding and practice of language teachers with regard to intercultural language learning. The latter is an orientation to language learning that underpins the National...

Speaking of tongues; I am always sorry when language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. - Samuel Johnson.
Byline: ADRIAN E. CRISTOBAL THE fact of the matter," wrote Mr. Jovito R. Salonga in Kilosbayan, is that Tagalog, the basis of Filipino, had been used in political discourse and campaigns since the 1930s. Today, TV and radio broadcasts, especially for entertainment and for the dissemination of...

Translator and interpreter training; issues, methods and debates.
9780826498052 Translator and interpreter training; issues, methods and debates. Ed. by John Kearns. Continuum Publishing Group 2008 223 pages $150.00 Hardcover Studies in translation P306 Scholars of translation, most...

Sustaining linguistic diversity; endangered and minority languages and language varieties.
9781589011922 Sustaining linguistic diversity; endangered and minority languages and language varieties. Ed. by Kendall A. King et al. Georgetown U. Press 2008 238 pages $44.95 Paperback Georgetown University round table on languages and...

Developing programs for intercultural language learning: insights from project team feedback.
ABSTRACT Feedback provided by ILTLP Project team members to participants in Phase 1 is analysed to provide insights into the process of developing programs. The questions provide a starting point for considering current programming practices in developing units of work and long-term programs to support intercultural language...

Before & after: developments in intercultural programming arising from a feedback process.
ABSTRACT During Phase 1 of the Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning in Practice (ILTLP) Project Nhu Trinh, a teacher of (Mandarin) Chinese, was one of a number of teachers who worked with project team members in a feedback process to develop intercultural units of work and long-term...

The importance of questioning & questions for considerations in programming for intercultural anguage learning.
ABSTRACT The significance of questioning in intercultural language learning was highlighted during Phase 1 of the project as project team members worked with teachers preparing units of work and long-term programs. This paper explores the types of questions asked by team members to elicit teachers' thinking regarding...

Orthographic measures of language distances between the official South African languages/Ortografiese maatstawwe van taalafstande tussen die amptelike Suld-Afrikaanse tale.
Abstract Two methods for objectively measuring similarities and dissimilarities between the eleven official languages of South Africa are described. The first concerns the use of n-grams. The confusions between different languages in a text-based language identification system can be used to derive information on the relationships between...

National Day of Mali.
TODAY, the Republic of Mali celebrates its National Day. Mali is located in northwestern Africa, bounded on the northeast by Algeria, on the east by Niger, on the south by Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, and Guinea, and on the west by Senegal and Mauritania. The country has...