On your mark, get set, wait! Are your teacher candidates prepared to embed assistive technology in teaching and learning?
Linda Darling-Hammond's simplistic, yet profound observation addresses the basis of reform in teacher education today. Our challenge is to develop the knowledge, disposition, and teaching performance or skills of initial and advanced teacher candidates to enable them to deliver the foundations of education necessary to meet the critical educational...

Gen-X finds Sanskrit cool.
Byline: RAJEEVA SATYAVADA Sanskrit has enjoyed the patronage of the West long after it fell into disuse in the country of its birth. But India is beginning to appreciate all things ancient and Sanskrit is making a comeback... German scholar Max Muller was deeply interested...

Mad about Mandarin; Some local students getting exotic choice beyond French and Spanish.
Byline: Priyanka Dayal In some parts of China, starting in the third grade, students spend 10 hours a week learning English. In Shrewsbury, Xin Xin has four hours a week to teach Mandarin to her American students. But that's better than nothing, she says. Xin...

Pragmatic Markers in English: Grammaticalization and Discourse Functions.
Laurel J. Brinton. Grammaticalization and Discourse Functions. Topics in English Linguistics 19. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. xvi + 412 pp. $124.45 cloth. Laurel Brinton's ground-breaking new book is a meticulously researched study of Old English and Middle English (OE, ME) "mystery features" - items that have...

Cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning.
9781853599347 Cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Ringbom, Hakan. Multilingual Matters Ltd. 2007 144 pages $39.95 Paperback Second language acquisition; 21 P53 While much research on second language acquisition...

The American high school.
Of all levels of schooling, the high school receives by far the most criticism. There are continuous innovations recommended in journal articles, textbooks, and speeches at state/national conventions on ways to improve the secondary level of schooling. At one teacher education convention, the speaker was criticizing the American high...

REMARKS ON THE "PERSON OF AUTHORITY" IN THE DGA' LDAN PA / DGE LUGS PA SCHOOL OF TIBETIAN BUDDHISM.
TOM J. F. TILLEMANS, one of the foremost authorities on the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist logico-epistemological tradition (pramana, tshad ma) founded by Dignaga (fifth-sixth century) and Dharmakirti (sixth-seventh century), has been intrigued by the question of the status of the Buddha and scripture in that tradition for a long time. His...

E-gov initiative hits language barrier.
Byline: Niranjan Bharati NEW DELHI: The country's e-government initiative faces a language barrier. Experts have not been able to establish an interface between the English and local language softwares. The centre had made softwares in 15 languages available for the effective implementation of the e-governance...

Blue Metropolis and the evolution of Quebec literature.
The Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, which is unique in the world in its use of language, could probably never have emerged elsewhere than in Montreal. Those of us involved in the creation of Blue Metropolis--all anglophone Montrealers--were inspired by a wish to cross linguistic barriers, and we...

Francophone minorities: from a homogeneous representation to the construction of a plural identity.
Introduction Some years ago, when I first taught "Introduction aux Etudes Canadiennes" in French, I was confronted with two major challenges that I had not expected. That experience probably tells as much about me and where I am coming from as it does about the challenges themselves,...