LINGUIST List 10.160

Wed Feb 3 1999

FYI: Lang. Learning Technology, Eurolinguistics

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

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  • Language Learning & Technology, Language Learning Technology Vol. 2, No. 2 is available
  • Vadim B. Kassevitch, Foundation of the Eurolinguistic Circle

    Message 1: Language Learning Technology Vol. 2, No. 2 is available

     Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:10:34 -1000
    From: Language Learning & Technology <llthawaii.edu>
    Subject: Language Learning Technology Vol. 2, No. 2 is available


    We are happy to announce the publication of Vol. 2, No. 2 of Language Learning & Technology < http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt >, an international refereed online journal for second and foreign language educators.

    Please visit the LLT web site and be sure to enter your free subscription if you have not already done so. Also, we welcome your submissions of articles, reviews, and commentaries for Vol. 3, No. 1 and future issues as well. Check our guidelines for submission at <http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt/contrib.html>;.

    Irene Thompson, Mark Warschauer, and Lucinda Hart-Gonzlez Editors, Language Learning & Technology llt-editorshawaii.edu

    FEATURE ARTICLES ====================================================== Teaching Text and Context through Multimedia by Claire Kramsch & Roger W. Andersen

    "Reflective Conversation" in the Virtual Language Classroom by Marie-Nolle Lamy & Robin Goodfellow

    Using Automatic Speech Processing for Foreign Language Pronunciation Tutoring: Some Issues and a Prototype by Maxine Eskenazi

    Considerations in Developing or Using Second/Foreign Language Proficiency Computer-Adaptive Tests by Patricia A. Dunkel

    COMMENTARY ====================================================== "What's in a Gloss?" A response to Lara L. Lomicka's "To Gloss or Not to Gloss": An Investigation of Reading Comprehension Online (Vol. 1, No. 2) by Warren B. Roby

    COLUMNS ====================================================== >From the Editors by Irene Thompson, Mark Warschauer, & Lucinda Hart-Gonzlez, Editors

    On the Net Agora Language Marketplace by Jean W. LeLoup & Robert Ponterio

    Emerging Technologies Mobile Computing and Language Learning by Bob Godwin-Jones

    Announcements News from Sponsoring Organizations

    REVIEWS ====================================================== Oral Language Archive Reviewed by Claire Bradin

    Pasos Vivos 1 Reviewed by Joseph Collentine

    Language Learning Online: Theory and Practice in the ESL and L2 Computer Classroom Reviewed by Jzsef Horvth

    CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================== Theme: Literacies and Technologies

    Message 2: Foundation of the Eurolinguistic Circle

     Date: Tue, 2 Feb 99 23:02:19 +0300
    From: Vadim B. Kassevitch <kasevichvbk.usr.pu.ru>
    Subject: Foundation of the Eurolinguistic Circle


    Foundation of the Eurolinguistic Circle (Eurolinguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim)

    We are pleased to announce the foundation of a new research and educational centre intended for studying Europe as a linguistic and cultural entity. The centre, under the name of EUROLINGUISTIC CIRCLE (EUROLINGUISTISCHER ARBEITSKREIS MANNHEIM), has been set up jointly by representatives of the Universities of Mannheim, Tuebingen, Heidelberg, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Vilnius, and Olsztyn.

    With its seat at the University of Mannheim, the centre's aim is to promote European studies in order to provide a LINGUISTIC FRAMEWORK for the process of the European unification. The unity and diversity of European culture which, in Seton-Watson's words, "is simply the end-product of 3000 years of labour by our diverse ancestors" cannot be preserved and secured without due attention to linguistic aspects.

    At least two points seem to show clearly the utmost importance of these aspects. The first is self-evident. It is language that both unites people and isolates one community from another, hence the importance of encouraging multilingualism, starting from pre-school and school education. As easily understood, this cannot be achieved without in-depth theoretical studies and practical application of contact linguistics to be done by professional linguists. The second point is concerned with the role played by language in its capacity of being the FOUNDATION OF CULTURE. Specific languages mirror in the crystallised way the experience of the communities that speak them; put another way, each language mirrors the worldview of its speakers as coded in the language's lexicon, grammar, and discourse patterns. Hence the importance of defining 'isomeric lines', that is, 'curves' running through areas where one finds comparable lexical (isoglosses), grammatical, and discourse patterns as seen against the background of ethnocultural identities.

    The Eurolinguistic Circle is planning to hold the Second Symposium on Eurolinguistics jointly organised by the Universities of Mannheim, St. Petersburg, and Stockholm in Pushkin/St. Petersburg (Sept. 10-16, 1999). The programme of the Symposium will be mailed out shortly.



    Prof. Dr. P. Sture Ureland Seminar fuer Allgemeine Linguistik UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM D-68131 Mannheim, Schloss EW 294 Tel. 0621-292-5563 Tel. 0621-292-1439 (Sekretariat) FAX 0621-292-5563 e-mail: lamasplit.uni-mannheim.de

    Prof. Dr. Vadim B. Kassevitch Dept. of General Linguistics Univ. of St. Petersbug 199034, 11, Univ. nab., St.Petersburg phone +7/812 314-6123 (home) FAX +7/812 328-1346 (office) e-mail: kasevichvbk.usr.pu.ru







    - - Prof. Dr. Vadim B. Kassevitch (Univ. of St. Petersburg) P.O.Box 14, St. Petersburg, 191025, Russia Phone (7-812) 314-6123 (home), Fax (7-812) 3281346 (office) <kasevichvbk.usr.pu.ru>