Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Native English Speaking Returnee Students
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| Author: | Sharon Vaipae | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Sociolinguistics
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| Subject Language(s): |
English
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| Query: |
There are many returned expatriots of native English speaking
countries. Some are businessmen, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists, and researchers. For purposes of academic study, I am interested in being put in contact with families who have 1) lived overseas in a non-native English speaking country; 2) children who attended public schools there for any period between K and 9th grades; 3) now returned to their native English-speaking countries; 4) AND would be willing to complete a stamped mailed questionnaire. My interest is an extension of a Toyota Foundation-funded study of language minority students in Japanese public schools. The results of this work have been published in Japanese, _Gaijin Seito ga Yatte Kita_, Takahashi M. and Vaipae, S.V., Tokyo: Taishokan, 1996, and and the English version is forthcoming. Now that we know what happens in the second language schooling, it would be informative to discover the varieties of cultural re-entry and return to schooling in the native language. If you have had this experience, or are acquainted with such a family, I would very much appreciate your assistance in making these contacts. Sincerely, Sharon Vaipae Sharon Vaipae Ohtani Women's University Shigakudai Nishikiori Home tele 06-675-3810 Tondabayashi-shi, Osaka 584 Japan email: ohtani@gol.com ''The truth shall make you odd.'' --Flannery O'Connor Dear Colleague, Although I have long been working on the history of English lexicography, I have not yet been able to find a copy of Tetsuro Hayashi's _A History of English Lexicography_ (Kaibunsha Publishing Co., Tokyo 1968). Can anyone tell where I can find it -- preferably in an Italian or a British library -- or help me to get a copy of it? Thank you. Giovanni IAMARTINO Associate Professor of History of the English Language University of Milan, Italy giiamar@tin.it I need specific references for two statistics that turn up everywhere - including my own notes from grad school. One says that 65% of all information in typical English speech is nonverbal; the other says 90% of emotional information in English speech is nonverbal. I've found a dozen references *to* these statistics, but none offering an original source, although one cryptic note appears to credit Bolinger. Please email me directly if you can help -- thanks. Suzette Haden Elgin ocls@ipa.net |
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| LL Issue: | 8.1573 | |
| Date posted: | 02-Nov-1997 | |
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