LINGUIST List 11.195

Mon Jan 31 2000

FYI: Teacher Training/Asian Lang, Reviewer request

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. David G. Wittner, Summer Intensive Lang and Teacher Training: Chinese/Japanese
2. Theo Vennemann, To reviewers of "From Neanderthal to Easter Island"

The Ohio State University, 

	Summer Programs East Asian Concentration (SPEAC): 

	Training Programs for Teachers of Chinese or Japanese

	and Intensive Chinese and Japanese Language Programs


The Ohio State University Department of East Asian Languages and
Literatures, in conjunction with the OSU National East Asian Language
Resource Center, is offering intensive summer language programs for
teachers and learners of Chinese and Japanese.

The Training Program for Teachers of Japanese and Training Program for
Teachers of Chinese are intensive seven-week (June 19-August 4)
programs which develop participants' Japanese or Chinese language
teaching skills through lectures, master classes, workshops, and
hands-on teaching.

The ten-week (June 19-August 25) intensive Japanese language (Levels
I, II, and IV) or Chinese language programs (Levels I and IV) allows
learners of Japanese or Chinese to complete one level of language
study during the summer quarter.

Application deadline for priority consideration and fellowships is March
10, 2000. 

For further information and applications, please contact Merrari McKinney
or David Wittner, SPEAC Program Coordinators, Foreign Language Center, 
The Ohio State University, 224 Dieter Cunz Hall,
1841 Millikin Road, Columbus, OH 43210, 

tel: 614-688-3426, fax: 614-292-2682, or e-mail: speacosu.edu

Please visit us on the web: 

http://deall.ohio-state.edu/SPEAC/

Dear Fellow Linguists:

This is a request to those out there who may be writing reviews of the
festschrift _From Neanderthal to Easter Island: A tribute to, and
celebration of, the work of W. Wilfried Schuhmacher_, ed. by Neile A. Kirk
and Paul J. Sidwell, Melbourne: Association for the History of Language,
Australian National University, 1999:

Please let me know your postal address so I can send you a copy of my
contribution ("Testing the West: Hesperia, Euskal Herria, Europe, Abendland
and supporting etymologies", pp. 85-102) in which misprints are corrected
in the margins.

If you are not a reviewer but are having doubts about the correctness of
certain examples in my text, please let me know, too.

Theo Vennemann