Double consonants and gemination in Sung French.
SINGERS FREQUENTLY ARE ADMONISHED to exercise great discretion in the prolongation of consonants in French. One is advised that gemination is uncommon in the spoken tongue, and should as a rule be avoided in singing, unless one is absolutely certain of its appropriateness in each context. Like...

Peer-learning spaces: a staple in English language learners' tool kit for developing language and literacy.
Abstract: Children from linguistically and culturally diverse homes are faced with the ongoing challenge of performing well academically. Research suggests that children perform better when academic tasks are meaningful and culturally relevant. This study examines the ways in which English language learners claim their home and peer cultures in...

NCERT syllabus show chinks in CPM's armour.
Byline: Akshaya Mukul NEW DELHI: The more things change, more they remain the same. On Tuesday, even when NCERT presented a copy of the new syllabus - reportedly arrived at after taking all views into consideration - to HRD minister Arjun Singh, skirmishes between the...

Deepa Mehta's Water is Canada's entry for Oscars.
MUMBAI: Making use of a new rule governing selection of films, Deepa Mehta's 'Water', starring John Abraham and Lisa Ray, has been chosen as Canada's entry for the 2007 Oscars in the foreign film category. The film, which depicts the plight of a group of widows in...

English: best for(e) play with words.
The following talk was presented at the international conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the American Society for Geolinguistics at New York University on April 20 1985 Let me put my cards on the table at the start of this talk. I'm a language chauvinist--I believe English...

Pragmatics & language learning; v.11, 2006.
9780824831370 Pragmatics & language learning; v.11, 2006. Ed. by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig et al. U. of Hawai'i Pr. 2006 407 pages $30.00 Paperback P99 Seventeen international academics contribute 13 chapters derived from...

Investigating tasks in formal language learning.
9781853599262 Investigating tasks in formal language learning. Ed. by Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo. Multilingual Matters Ltd. 2007 267 pages $54.95 Paperback Second language acquisition; 20 P53 Sixteen international...

Learn Portuguese, Chinese at BU.
BANGALORE: It is raining foreign languages on the Bangalore University campus. Students and executives are lured towards the Department of Foreign Languages to become proficient in one of the six languages in the offing. Learning languages is fun and can be lucrative too. It can land you...

Does the market value racial and ethnic concordance in physician-patient relationships?
The issue of racial/ethnic concordance in medical care is growing in importance as the issue of racial disparities in health care becomes more prominent. Research has examined the choice of a racially/ethnically concordant physician-patient relationship, including whether patients tend to select physicians of the same race/ethnicity, and whether physicians...

Charlotte and Wilbur toys in Singapore Airlines.
Byline: Urvashi Jha BANGALORE: Targetting growing number of children travellers, the Singapore Airlines is set to entertain children onboard with Charlotte and Wilbur toys, the characters from the hit children's movie, the Charlotte's Web, an animal fable in March and April. Charlotte and friends, and...