Developing language objectives for English language learners in physical education lessons: with nearly 10 percent of students in the United States predominantly speaking a language other than English, all teachers need to be concerned about enhancing communication. Physical education, in particular, provides an excellent setting to support language acquisition.
Nearly five million students in United States schools predominantly speak a language other than English. This population has increased 95 percent over the past 10 years and represents 9.8 percent of the total K-12 school enrollment (U.S. Department of Education, 2002). While some schools have ESOL (English to Speakers...

Reinhard Sander and Bernth Lindfors (eds), Ngugi wa Thiong'o Speaks: interviews with the Kenyan writer.
REINHARD SANDER AND BERNTH LINDFORS (eds), Ngugi wa Thiong'o Speaks: interviews with the Kenyan writer. Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: EAEP (pb, 19.95 [pounds sterling] - 0 85255 580 6). 2006, 445 pp. A substantial collection of interviews spanning the famous Kenyan author/activist's career, Ngugi wa Thiong'o Speaks...

Aspects of language contact; new theoretical, methodological and empirical findings with special focus on romancisation processes.
9783110195842 Aspects of language contact; new theoretical, methodological and empirical findings with special focus on romancisation processes. Ed. by Thomas Stolz et al. Mouton de Gruyter 2008 471 pages $189.00 Hardcover Empirical approaches...

Mathematics, computer science and statistics.
Chair: Joseph Kolibal, University of Southern Mississippi Vice-chair: Andrew Harrell, CEWES-GM THURSDAY MORNING Hunter Henry Executive Room 12 9:30 COMPILED ENGLISH A. Louise Perkins (1*), Tom Rishel (2), Farnaz Zand (1), and Sumanth Yenduri (1), University of Southern Mississippi,...

Error tagging systems for learner corpora.
RESUMEN. Los corpus de estudiantes se utilizan para la investigación de la lengua de estudiantes en formato electrónico con el fin de arrojar luz al proceso de adquisición de lenguas extranjeras. Una de las metodologías que se utilizan en este campo es el análisis informatizado de errores que, en...

Language learning in school: the promise of two-way immersion (1).
Consider the following excerpt from an elementary school class. Mr. Hernandez (2) is teaching a lesson about migration to his class of eight-year-olds. Half of the class are fluent speakers of English (including one student already bilingual in Chinese and English); the other half of the students are native...

The devil's colors: a comparative study of French and Nigerian folktales.
Introduction In the concluding chapter of her book on race in African oral literature, Veronika Gorog-Karady (1976:245) remarks that "the main difficulty is to find the precise meaning of color oppositions, valorization or depreciation in African cultures." This study, mainly based on five separate published collections by...

Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia.
Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia. By ROLAND J.-L. BRETON. Walnut Creek, Calif.: ALTAMIRA PRESS, 1997. Pp. 231. $65. During the mid-1970s the International Center for Research on Bilingualism, located at Laval University, published two landmark works concerned with the language statistics and...

Broking houses setting up call centres to service customers in various languages.
Byline: Prashant Mahesh MUMBAI: Shrinking investor interest and fierce competition is forcing brokerage houses to come up with innovative ways to win over customers. In addition to setting up branches where local staff can speak the lingua franca, brokerages are now setting up dedicated call centres to...

Disinventing and reconstituting languages.
9781853599231 Disinventing and reconstituting languages. Ed. by Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook. Multilingual Matters Ltd. 2007 249 pages $42.95 Paperback Bilingual education and bilingualism P107 Thirteen international academics and...