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The plight of the bilingual blogger
Posted in general on August 25, 2005| Leave a Comment »
Biliteracy
Posted in general on July 21, 2005| Leave a Comment »
We are attempting to teach our son, Danny, three languages and I will try to observe carefully his language learning process. So far, at 13 months of age, he is already gaining biliteracy skills. His greatest accomplishment in this regard is in page turning–he now knows (with a little encouragement and assistance) how, and whether, to turn the pages of a book from left to right, if the book is in English, or right to left, if the book is in Japanese! Of course he absolutely loves his books and refuses to put them down.
Upcoming conferences
Posted in general on July 21, 2005| Leave a Comment »
Next week I’ll be attending the International Association of Applied Linguistics conference (AILA) in Madison, Wisconsin and, at the end of the week, the National Down Syndrome Congress conference in Anaheim. Feel free to get in touch if you’ll be attending either one.
Blogosphere
Posted in general on June 16, 2005| Leave a Comment »
Interestingly, my Ocean and Stars blog has been discovered by a class of English learners in Iran.
Language Change
Posted in general on June 9, 2005| 1 Comment »
It’s interesting to see how much the English language has changed in less than a century.
PacCALL 2005 – Dec. 1-3
Posted in general on May 26, 2005| Leave a Comment »
PacCALL 2005 Conference — First Call for Papers
The Second Pacific Association for CALL Conference (PacCALL) will be held at Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China from 1-3 December 2005.
The theme for this year’s conference is: CALL Directions: New Identities and New Communities
Confirmed keynote speakers:
* Bernd Rueschoff, Univ. of Essen, Essen, Germany, President of EuroCALL
* Mike Levy, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Abstracts (max 250 words) for Papers (45 minutes); Demonstrations (45 minutes); and Posters sessions are now invited. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 31 July, 2005.
Online surveys
Posted in general on May 16, 2005| 43 Comments »
We’re in the midst of conducting our first online survey of teachers and students as part of our laptop research project. For those interested in conducted online surveys, here’s an interesting article. We’re using Survey Monkey–I’ll let you know how it works out.
Danny
Posted in general on May 6, 2005| Leave a Comment »
Research on Digital Kids
Posted in general on May 4, 2005| Leave a Comment »
Researchers from UC Berkeley and USC have received a $3.3 million grant to investigate Kids Informal Learning with Digital Media. The project Website provides an interesting overview of the framework for addressing this issues, as well as the research methods deployed.
Ed Tech News
Posted in general on May 4, 2005| Leave a Comment »
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