Plurilingualism and globalization
27 december 2012 A language dies every fourteen days. According to many modern linguists, including Grenoble and Whaley, half of the worlds six to seven thousand languages will be gone in the next century. This is undoubtedly due to colonial forces over the last several hundred years and the globalizing prospects of capitalism and world-sized religions. For Native American people and...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Multilinguismo em Bonfim/RR : o ensino de língua portuguesa no contexto da diversidade linguística
Data de publicação: 8-Jan-2013 - Data de defesa: 11-Jun-2012
Plurilingualism and globalization
Source: Ideas on Europe
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Spanishwalker has already argued some months ago that one of the problems of the European blogosphere is the dominance of English. He sees the problem in English being the gatekeeper language between blogging and writing in most other European languages.Plurilingualism and globalization
Dans le cadre de la seconde journée du français dans les organisations internationales (JFOI); un article de Myriam de Beaulieu qui fait réfléchir!
Blog "Le Monde" / "Regard international"
Le français, est-il saturé d’anglicismes ? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Plurilingualism and globalization
Colloque international pluridisciplinaire - Mercredi 14 novembre 2012 au Mercredi 14 novembre 2012 Paris - Campus Gérard Mégie, CNRS Naguère, on pensait que l’anglais serait la lingua franca de la mondialisation, ce qui lui valut le qualificatif de « planétaire » (Global English) : on disposait enfin d’une langue commune universelle. Or, cette vision des choses...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Elaine Costa-Fernandez, Odette Lescarret L'Harmattan Les enjeux de la mondialisation sur la diversité des langues et des cultures sont ici interrogés. Comment éviter l'écrasement des différences, l'imposition d'une langue unique sans tomber dans des revendications identitaires nécessairement réductrices ? Pour répondre à cette problématique, des chercheurs des cinq continents...
Plurilingualism and globalization
02/ 1/2012, Huffington Post, Stacie Nevdomski
Lawrence Summers loves fomenting juicy debates: women's math skills may innately trail men's; global warming is a "profound error." His latest foray: English is "the global language" and better machine translation makes foreign languages "less essential." Read more...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Publico.pt 06.08.2012 - 17:13 Por Edoardo Campanella Quando a história se repete, ela raramente é gentil. Hoje, tal como na época do colonialismo, dezenas de milhares de jovens ambiciosos, originários da periferia da Europa, estão a fugir do velho continente em busca de melhores oportunidades na América, em África e na Ásia. Mas, ao contrário da era colonial, as saídas de...
Plurilingualism and globalization
David Bénazéraf Considéré encore récemment comme une langue exotique, le chinois accède désormais au statut de langue internationale. Une langue ancestrale… Les premiers écrits en langue chinoise datent du XIIIe siècle avant notre ère : il s’agirait d’une...
Plurilingualism and globalization
In her talk, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question: Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? (For instance: what if Einstein had to pass the TOEFL?) It's a passionate defense of translating and sharing ideas. (Filmed at TEDxDubai.) Patricia Ryan has spent the past three-plus decades teaching English in...
Plurilingualism and globalization
"Le multilinguisme est essentiel pour faire progresser l'intégration européenne". Cette conclusion a été constatée lors de la plus récente assemblée générale de la Plateforme. Selon un nouveau rapport d'experts, les enfants ayant des besoins spéciaux et les adultes handicapés restenet...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Guillou, Michel 29/06/2012 | Mise à jour : 13:01 TRIBUNE - Alors que le Forum mondial sur la langue française s'ouvre lundi à Québec, Michel Guillou, membre de l'Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, propose une alternative à la domination de la langue de Shakespeare. Un peu plus chaque jour la langue anglaise s'installe non...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Philippe Bertrand, les Echos, 19 juillet 2012 Sentiment de déclassement, perte d'identité, manque de repères : les raisons ne manquent pas pour expliquer l'attirance des Français pour les extrêmes, de droite comme de gauche, qui ont rassemblé près d'un tiers des électeurs au premier tour de la dernière élection...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Marianne2, samedi 30 juin 2012 Un forum mondial de la langue française se tiendra au Québec du 2 au 6 juillet. L'objectif ? Promouvoir la langue française en remettant en cause l'idée du monopole de l'anglais dans la communication mondiale. Pour cela, Jean-Louis Roy, Dominique Gallet et les signataires de l'appel qu'ils ont lancé en appellent...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Richard Shryock argues that French is the most practical language to learn While any language will be useful for some jobs or for some regions, French is a language that is useful throughout the world as well as in the U.S. French as a foreign language is the second most frequently taught language in the world after English. The International Organization of...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Aprendemas.com, 11 juin 2012 Más de 7.000 lenguas hay en el mundo en la actualidad. Sin embargo, dentro de 100 años se estima que el 90% se habrán extinguido o estarán en proceso de extinción. Las previsiones apuntan a que el chino, el español y el inglés serán las lenguas más importantes durante el próximo...
Plurilingualism and globalization
The Telegraph, 6 June 2012
Hay Festival 2012: English will die out like Latin, leading linguist claims
English will soon die out as the world’s most dominant language and be replaced by ‘machine translation’ that allows people to communicate via hand-held devices like iPads, Nicolas Ostler, a leading linguist has claimed. Read more...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Plurilingualism and globalization
Posted on May 29, 2012 by Language Rich Blog Following our successful first launch in Bern, Switzerland on 23 May 2012, Caroline Morrissey, Director British Council Switzerland, has written an article discussing both the launch and the Swiss language situation in general. Please read on to find out more. Anything to do with language policy in Switzerland, a country with four...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Par Michel Feltin-Palas (L'Express), publié le 28/03/2012 Faut-il s'inquiéter de la domination de la langue anglaise? Les langues nationales vont-elles disparaître? Sans chauvinisme ni ringardise, le linguiste Claude Hagège dresse un constat lucide de la situation. Rencontre. Vous trouverez ici une traduction vers le russe de cet article, fruit...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Posted on Language Rich Blog
In case you have missed it, there’s an interesting new OECD publication which “examines the links between globalisation and the way we teach and learn languages”. You can preview the whole book online for free. Please see the abstract of the book below for more information.
Plurilingualism and globalization
News 24, 7 may 2012 The subject of language as the powerful tool used for oppression, deprivation and exclusion is largely viewed as a long overdue phenomenon by the elite in the main. This is especially true when it is voiced from the South African context. Also the suggestion that this integral element of humanity could be used in its diversified form to integrate and...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Apr 30th 2012, 11:02 by L.M. | LONDON TSEDAL NEELEY, an assistant professor at Harvard, wants all employees of multinational companies to speak English, no matter where in the world they are or what they do. Ms Neeley makes the case for an English-only policy for businesses that operate in more than one country in the May issue of Harvard Business Review. English...
Plurilingualism and globalization
Diplomats who are not fluent in the local tongue risk doing their country a disservice
By Charles Crawford, 10 April 2012
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