Discussion Details
| Title: | Designing mass linguistic study program |
| Submitter: | Daniel Brockert |
| Description: | Dear fellow linguists,
I just finished a two week trip to Venezuela to promote a massive linguistics study program in which the government would educate 250,000 Venezuelans in linguistics. Upon completion of the linguistics study program they would be eligible to serve as host families and Spanish tutors for foreign students and eligible to study languages abroad such as Quechua, Portuguese, English and other strategically important languages. Long-term goals would be the reform of the education system and the creation of a multi-lingual society that preserves its indigenous languages. The idea has received heavy support in Venezuela, but as far as I am aware, no country has ever attempted to implement a mass linguistic study program. I'm wondering if pilot projects have been tried in other places and if people have ideas for making mass linguistic study (as opposed to mere university study) a feasible project. Thank you very much, Daniel Brockert Saguaro Language Institute and University of Arizona |
| Date Posted: | 09-Aug-2006 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | Discipline of Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 17.2277 |
| Posted: | 09-Aug-2006 |
