By Lucy Ferriss. I belong to a generation that ate in restaurants only on special occasions. You know: Mom’s birthday. Or after visiting Grandma in the hospital. Or maybe in the airport restaurant, the one with the white linen tablecloths, when we went to fetch someone who was actually flying into town to visit us. More...
By Ben Yagoda. The Smithean view is supported by the OED, which counsels (in language that has not been revised since 1895): “In standard English the form farther is usually preferred where the word is intended to be the comparative of far, while further is used where the notion of far is altogether absent; there is a large intermediate class of instances in which the choice between the two forms is arbitrary.” Commenting on this passage, H.W. Fowler, author of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), remarked, “That seems to be too strong a statement, or a statement of what might be a useful differentiation rather than of one actually developed or even developing.” More...
By Allan Metcalf. If you search the web for an example of “native advertising,” surprise! You will not find National Geographic photos of quaint retailers in Belize or Brooklyn painting handmade signs, or of rustics at farmers markets lettering labels for the vegetables they vend. More...
By Justin Cremer. The suggestion by the Danish People's Party that Denmark's universities should stop offering courses in English was roundly criticized by political opponents and The Local's readers, who said that the real losers would be Danish students.
Offering university courses in English “makes no sense” according to the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party (DF), which has once again called for Danish universities to abandon teaching in a second language. More...
Journée d'étude organisée par Stéphanie SENOS du laboratoire FRED (Francophonie Education Diversité) et par l'IREM (Institut de Recherche sur l'Enseignement des Mathématiques).
L’objectif de la journée est de réfléchir aux liens entre la langue-culture française et les langues-cultures premières dans les situations d’enseignement-apprentissage,
de voir comment se mêlent l’universel et le singulier, de s’interroger sur l’éducation formelle et indirectement sur la prise en compte des langues-cultures premières dans
l’enseignement formel. Sans entrer dans des débats idéologiques, il pourra être aussi question de s’interroger sur l’influence de la pensée occidentale.
Dans l’enseignement du français langue étrangère (FLE) comme dans le domaine de l’ethnomathématique, de nombreux auteurs insistent sur la nécessité de prendre en compte les contextes sociaux et culturels dans lesquels les apprenants évoluent. Qu’en est-il concrètement ? Est-ce possible ? De quelle(s) manière(s) ?
Avec les participations de : Marc CHEMILLIER (EHESS,) Anne VICHER (ECRIMED’), FRED (Francophonie, Education, Diversité) IREM (Institut de Recherche sur l’Enseignement des Mathématiques).
Programme de la journée d'études
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The theme for IMLD 2015 is "Inclusion in and through education: Language counts". Its focus is on one of the main challenges that cuts across many of the goals, i.e. Inclusion (equity/quality).
As the EFA Goals are far from attained due, in part, to the difficulties of reaching the worst-off segments of the population, the debate around language and education becomes more central. Linguistic minorities are often among the most marginalized populations, with little or poor access to quality education. When they do have access to education, learners from these communities are often either excluded from opportunities to pursue their educational career beyond primary or pushed out of education because the language of instruction is not their own. - See more at: http://en.unesco.org/. More...
Par Pierre Laberrondo. Les défendeurs du plurilinguisme contestent en justice le choix de l’anglais obligatoire pour l’épreuve d’admission au concours d’entrée de l’École nationale d’administration. Le ministère de la Fonction publique maintient le cap. Voir l'article...
By Maddy Berner, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Enrolments in foreign-language courses at American colleges declined after nearly 20 years of growth, falling 6.7% from autumn 2009 to autumn 2013, according to a report released last Wednesday by the Modern Language Association – and American Sign Language is now studied by more people than German. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Overall enrollment in foreign language courses is down for the first time since about 1995, and enrollments in major European languages -- including Spanish -- are way down, according to a new report from the Modern Language Association. Read more...
By Theodore Ziolkowski. Their mottos might suggest to uninitiated visitors from abroad that Latin is still the lingua franca of our universities. Lux with its implication of enlightenment, along with truth (veritas), and knowledge (scientia) are among the favored terms, from Harvard’s veritas by way of Yale’s lux et veritas to Berkeley’s fiat lux and Michigan’s artes, scientia, veritas.
Probably no campus bristles with more Latin inscriptions than Princeton, even though its motto—Dei sub numine viget—promises that we will thrive under the auspices of the deity rather than truth. The mantelpiece in Procter Hall of the Graduate College announces bonus intra melior exi (“You’re good when you arrive; be better when you leave”)—an inscription (from a North African temple of Aesculapius) that a dean can still find useful in welcoming incoming students and bidding farewell to graduating Ph.D.s, as well as greeting potential donors. More...
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