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Rising Sun: Personal Blog of Danny Arao | August 29th 2008 by Danny Arao
N.B. - This will be published in the August 29-September 4, 2008 issue of Pinoy Weekly. Huwag mo nang basahin ito. Hindi ba’t mas gugustuhin mong nakasulat ito sa wikang Ingles? Puwede nang kalimutan ang wikang Filipino dahil tapos na ang Agosto. B read more
The Olympification of English in Beijing
Pangaea - The Open English Blog | August 26th 2008 by openenglish
Just 30 years ago, Chinese citizens were forbidden to learn English and could be imprisoned for listening to an English radio station. Now China has the largest number of English learners in the world. Will they ever be heard? As globalization has r read more
Is English the Official Language of the U.S.?
Pangaea - The Open English Blog | July 31st 2008 by openenglish
A few months ago I was surprised to learn that English was not the “official” language of the U.S. More recently I was again surprised (apparently I have a low threshold), this time to learn that there is a movement underway to confirm th read more
Why All Kids Need to Learn Other Languages
Pangaea - The Open English Blog | July 21st 2008 by openenglish
The following was presented at the Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures (MCTLC) in October of 2007. It’s difficult to argue that notwithstanding the ubiquity and growing adoption of English, the need for multi-lingualism read more
Barack Obama’s Lost in Translation Moment? Suggests US Children…
Pangaea - The Open English Blog | July 15th 2008 by openenglish
Anyone who is following the Presidential race in the United States is aware that Immigration Reform is going to be one of the most hotly contested topics in the campaign. There’s an ongoing debate as to the quantity of illegal immigrants in the read more
Lolcatese — u lerns it or eatz mai dust sucka
Hot Dorkage | July 7th 2008 by C. R. Dick
Lolcatese — is it becoming the new internet pidgin? Perhaps first exclusively written language? Lolcatese is named after the acronym LOL, which is Textese for “laughing out loud.” Textese is a thing distinct from Lolcatese read more
Endangered Cultures
Pangaea - The Open English Blog | May 31st 2008 by openenglish
“Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.” In his TEDTalk, Wade Davis refers to the ethnosphere as “the cultural web of life, the total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into bein read more
Who Owns English?
Pangaea - The Open English Blog | May 26th 2008 by openenglish
“We are now only a few years away from the day when native speakers of English are outnumbered by those for whom English is a second language.” - Orin Hargraves 2003. “The following article is reprinted in its entirety with permissi read more
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Pangaea - The Open English Blog | May 23rd 2008 by openenglish
Today, technology creates the same intimate connections that Pangaea may have supported were it to exist today. And yet the rationale behind the vaguely defined term “globalization” has come into question. Aside from the very real environ read more
They Speak Spanish as a First or Official Language WHERE?
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | March 14th 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
English Language Teaching: They Speak Spanish as a First or Official Language WHERE? Spanish as a First or Official LanguageOften, when I teach or speak before of group of English language teachers in Latin America, I like to ask the question, “How read more
English Language Teaching: They Speak English as a First or Offic…
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | March 11th 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
English as a First or Official Language Often, when I teach or speak before of group of English language teachers, I like to ask the question, “How many countries are there which have English as a FIRST or OFFICIAL language?” A few minutes then p read more
"Codex", by Lev Grossman...
Voynich News | March 11th 2008 by Nick Pelling
"Codex" (2005) , another Voynich-ish thriller to add to the Big Fat List, is by New-York-based writer Lev Grossman who you might know as the author of the "When Words Fail" article (a nice introduction to the Voynich Manuscript) in April 1999's Lingu read more
Generation gap: Spanish fades while English gains dominance
Voices en Español | November 30th 2007 by Voices
English-only initiatives. Making English the “official” language of the United States. All of that is based on fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of the future. Fear of Spanish crowding out English as the lingua franca in the U.S. because of read more
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