Papyrus News

An interesting discussion about language conflict in the blogosphere.

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.

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.

Interestingly, my Ocean and Stars blog has been discovered by a class of English learners in Iran.

It’s interesting to see how much the English language has changed in less than a century.

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.

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.

Here are some new pictures of our son, Danny

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.

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