LINGUIST List 13.1353

Wed May 15 2002

Qs: EFL Syllabus, Minority Lang Questionnaire

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  • Samia Kara, Competency Based Syllabus
  • Worth, Celia, Minority Language Questionnaire

    Message 1: Competency Based Syllabus

     Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:16:28 +0000
    From: Samia Kara <samia.karacaramail.com>
    Subject: Competency Based Syllabus


    Nowadays, we are witnessing the emergence of a new approach in the realms of education in general and in English as a Foreign language teaching in particular; the so-called Competency-based approach. It is being introduced in Algeria and I would be very thankful if anyone could provide me with information about its outcomes in terms of countries where it has already been developed and /or evaluated as well as useful bibliography ( eventually electronic).

    Message 2: Minority Language Questionnaire

     Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:02:04 +0100
    From: Worth, Celia <c.worthlancaster.ac.uk>
    Subject: Minority Language Questionnaire




    The Department of Linguistics at Lancaster University is currently undertaking some research into the needs of language engineers and linguists as regards corpus building in the indigenous minority languages of the British Isles (i.e. Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Scots, Ulster Scots and Welsh). As part of assessing such needs we have developed a short web-questionnaire. The answers will be made anonymous and eventually contribute to a report which we are happy to send, free of charge, to all who participate in the survey.

    If you could spare a few minutes to complete the questionnaire it would be appreciated. Even if you are not working directly with these languages at present, it would be useful if you could fill it in with an eye to possible future work within this area.

    The questionnaire is at:

    http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml/LERqnaire.htm

    Thank you for your time.

    Celia Worth Research Associate Dept. Linguistics & Modern English Language Lancaster University Lancaster UK LA1 4YT email: c.worthlancaster.ac.uk http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml