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In case you have missed it, there’s an interesting new OECD publication which “examines the links between globalisation and the way we teach and learn languages”. You can preview the whole book online for free. Please see the abstract of the book below for more information.
News 24, 7 may 2012 The subject of language as the powerful tool used for oppression, deprivation and exclusion is largely viewed as a long overdue phenomenon by the elite in the main. This is especially true when it is voiced from the South African context. Also the suggestion that this integral element of humanity could be used in its diversified form to integrate and...
Apr 30th 2012, 11:02 by L.M. | LONDON TSEDAL NEELEY, an assistant professor at Harvard, wants all employees of multinational companies to speak English, no matter where in the world they are or what they do. Ms Neeley makes the case for an English-only policy for businesses that operate in more than one country in the May issue of Harvard Business Review. English...
Diplomats who are not fluent in the local tongue risk doing their country a disservice
By Charles Crawford, 10 April 2012
Source: EurekAlert, Public release date: 2-Apr-2012 Swedish adolescents' desire to learn a foreign language besides English, which they start learning relatively early, has been declining for a long time. A new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that one factor behind this trend may be that English is used as a resource when students learn French,...
Quelle: Goethe Institut / Die Macht der Sprache / Mehrsprachigkeit und Identität „Übersetzung bedeutet zugleich Bereicherung und Verlust“ – Deutsch in den Wissenschaften Ist die Wissenschaft heute noch mehrsprachig, und welche Rolle hat das Deutsche als Wissenschaftssprache? Wir haben darüber mit Felix Grigat, dem verantwortlichen Redakteur der...
L'émission "Tire ta langue" de France Culture est proposée par Antoine Perraud chaque dimanche de 12h à 12h30 Le site de l'émission Comment résister à l'invasion du globish? 14 26.02.2012 - 12:00 Avec Xavier Combe, interprète de conférence,...
28/3/2012
En estos días salió publicada en el influyente diario The New York Times la opinión de Larry Summers, figura del equipo económico de Obama y ex presidente de la también influyente universidad de Harvard, afirmando que: se confirma el inglés como idioma global junto con el progreso de los traductores ...
27/3/2012 Numărul copiilor din Anglia, care declară limba engleză drept limbă maternă, a scăzut dramatic în ultima perioadă, astfel încât a ajuns în minoritate în peste 1600 de şcoli din Anglia. Statisticile arată că circa un milion de copii care studiază în Anglia nu au limba...
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US and UK policy to promote English language teaching expertise around the world is undermining multilingualism and education opportunities
Robert Phillipson, 13 March 2012
Portalingua, 23/2/2012 Ambasadorul României la Beijing, Romulus - Doru Costea, a primit, miercuri, un cadou special din partea fostului preşedinte chinez Jiang Zemin, constând în ultima lucrare editorială personală, intitulată „Limba română, 800 de fraze”, apărută în seria „Manualul de limbi străine pentru cadrele de conducere”, îngrijit de Ministerul Chinez de...
27/2/2012, Portalingua
O inglês tem sido a linguagem global dominante por um século, mas será ele o idioma do futuro? O mandarim chinês, que pode ser seu maior desafiante, está crescendo, mas ainda precisa conquistar seu próprio "quintal": o sudeste asiático.
Na cidade mais ao sul da Malásia, Johor Bahru, o desejo ...
De la o vreme, am impresia ca vorbim pasareste. Prietenii, cand ma saluta, imi spun "hello!", ca americanii, iar la despartire imi ureaza o zi buna, adica vechea expresia romaneasca "buna ziua", spusa pe dos, sa sune mai transatlantic. >>>>>>>>
15/2/2012, Portalingua La guerre des langues Linguiste engagé, Claude Hagège lance une nouvelle offensive pour la diversité des langues, menacée par l’ogre anglo-américain. par Michel GENSON J'en’ai aucun mérite, je suis un homme habité. Tout me passionne. » La mince silhouette s’agite et vibrionne, son taxi l’attend, il s’y engouffre avec ... Lire la suite de...
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:11 Jaap van der Meer (TAUS) Review of Nicholas Ostler’s book The Last Lingua Franca The glorious future of machine translation has an avid supporter - Nicholas Ostler, historian of world languages, President of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, and author of The Last Lingua Franca. Following his fascinating and...
di Aurélia Ferrari (Centro Studi di lingue Africane Inaco - Parigi)
Marzo 2011
(...) Il patrimonio dell’Africa che è uno dei più ricchi del mondo, è tuttavia minacciato. Secondo un recente Atlante pubblicato dall’Unesco, tra 500 e 600 lingue parlate nel continente sarebbero in via d’estinzione, tra le quali ...
... la nouvelle économie mondialisée Monica Heller Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea. Diversité urbaine Fuera de serie, Otoño 2008, p. 163-176 Plurilinguisme et identités au Canada Dirigido por Michel Pagé, Richard Y. Bourhis y Patricia...
Source : Portalingua, 2 décembre 2012
Écoutez la conférence donnée par Louis-Jean Calvet, spécialiste de sociolinguistique et créateur du baromètre des langues, sur Le poids de langues dans la mondialisation à l'Alliance française de Toronto, le 9 février 2011.
Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.
23/11/2011
Si el chino seráo no la primera lengua mundial en el futuro es un interrogante que se asocia a la repercusión que puede ejercer cualquier cambio en la geografía lingüística actual y corresponde a un conjunto de variables dinámicas incontrolables. El análisis lingüístico que aborda tanto el espacio poblacional de ...
Henry Hitchings, Sunday november 6
As English takes over the world, it's splintering and changing -- and soon, we may not recognize it at allThis article is excerpted from the new book, "The Language Wars: A History of Proper English" from Farrar, Straus and Girous.
Publicado por las Editions des archives contemporaines (París, Cambridge, Philadelphia) 12 de agosto de 2011 Todas las versiones de este artículo: [Deutsch] [English] [Español] [français] Construido en torno al concepto de pluralidad lingüística y cultural, este libro define el idioma como un instrumento de...
Le plurilinguisme, nouvelle idéologie dominante
de Bruno Maurer
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Editions des archives contemporaines
ISBN : 9782813000668
Prix Public : 25,50
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