La Fédération Nationale des Organismes de Formation - Glossaire SSIG
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Lingu@netWork
The multilingual online resources centre Lingu@net WorldWide is on the way to being transformed into an interactive and dynamic service, involving more users and creating networks.
Lingu@net WorldWide , an EU Commission funded project under the Lifelong Learning Programme , has been providing good quality catalogued language resources to teachers and learners, researchers and language professionals for over 10 years. Through the Lingu@netWork project, it is now possible to add a major new dimension to the site, making it more attractive and relevant for today’s needs.
Users will be able to:
- Upload, rate and comment on resources;
- Meet in user forums and discussion groups to explore details of grammar or teaching methods in detail.
The newly designed website, launched in 2014, will be truly multilingual with access in some major world languages (Arabic, Chinese and Russian) as well as widely-spoken European languages (English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish) and some less widely used languages (Catalan and Greek). More...
West African curriculum framework for bilingual education
UIL, together with the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (BREDA) in Dakar, the UNESCO Regional Office in Abuja is coordinating the development of a West African curriculum framework for formal and non-formal bilingual education. As part of this initiative seven country teams from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo took part in a workshop from 18 to 20 August 2014 in Cotonou, Benin.
The workshop was opened by the Minister of Culture, Literacy, Arts and Crafts and Tourism and the Secretary General of the Ministry of Pre-primary and Primary Education of the Republic of Benin and the Director of the UNESCO Regional Office in Abuja .
The curriculum framework outlines the basic competences required by teachers in bilingual education and is accompanied by a teachers’ guide. The framework aims at operationalizing actions adopted in the Policy Guide on the Integration of African languages and Cultures into Education Systems, which was adopted by the Ministers of Education present at the African Conference on the Integration of African Languages and Cultures into Education in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 2010.
Link to Policy Guide: uil.unesco.org/fileadmin/keydocuments/Africa/en/policy_guide_sep_web_en.pdf. More...
Why I’m Asking You Not to Use Laptops
By Anne Curzan. At a teaching workshop last week, a new faculty member asked me how I felt about students using laptops in the classroom. I replied, “I ask students not to use laptops in my classroom—unless a student tells me they need or strongly prefer a laptop to take notes (for any reason), in which case we make that work.” She looked relieved to have this endorsement of a learning zone with fewer electronic distractions. More...
Solecizing Roget
By Lucy Ferriss. I’ve already confessed my love of Roget’s Thesaurus, so I am not simply going to pile on with the current wave of complaints about its popularity among students. This popularity, dubbed Rogeting by the British lecturer Chris Sadler, is apparently a side effect of rampant plagiarism and professors’ efforts to curb it by means of software like Turnitin. More...
‘Tis Nieuw to Thee
By William Germano. On August 26, 1664, the urban ancestor of the town in which I live changed its name. The English arrived, only four years after the restoration of their own monarchy, and threw out the Dutch. New York was born, sort of. That was 350 years ago. More...
Why Well-Formed Nonsense Doesn’t Matter
By Geoffrey Pullum. I’d like to add one more point on the topic of my post “Computer Says B-Plus.” My modest suggestion was this: If a computer program trained on essays graded by humans could learn enough about the superficial form of academic prose to reliably assign suitable grades to newly presented essays (where “suitable” means “close to what a qualified human grader would have assigned”), that could put a useful tool in the hands of a diligent student who wanted to get anonymous, private, and patient assessments of essay drafts before handing in the final product. More...
The ‘Girlfriend’ Experience
By Ben Yagoda. Certain books are so brilliant in idea and execution that they are deservedly and repeatedly revised, eventually coming to be referred to by the author’s last name long after his or her death. So we now have new versions of the 1743 A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist: Containing the Laws of the Game and Also Some Rules; the 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language; and the 1926 Modern English Usage. We call them Hoyle, Webster’s, and Fowler. More...
Toronto based researcher works to preserve ancient Syriac inscriptions
By Anqi Shen. More than a decade ago, Amir Harrak spent three sweltering summers in his native Iraq, photographing inscriptions written in the Classical Syriac language. The University of Toronto researcher had set out to document the centuries-old engravings, knowing many would eventually be lost.
In July, his worries returned when Islamic State militants took over the Catholic monastery of Mar Behnam in northern Iraq and detonated explosives that destroyed the Mosque of the Prophet Younis (Jonah), near the city of Mosul. More...