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Language Ecology: A Course Proposal

Language Ecology - A Course Proposal (2002) 1. Summary “When I think of my tongue being no longer alive in the mouths of men a chill goes over me that is deeper than my own death, since it is the gathered deaths of all my kind.” — David Malouf, Antipodes (1985) 1.1. Introduction. We envision…

Lecture by David Corson, November 19, 1999

Critical Realism: An Emancipatory Social Philosophy for Studying Language Diversity and Education by David Corson, Professor, Theory and Policy Studies and the Modern Language Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Lecture by Dorothy Chun, November 9, 1999

Web-Based Language Instruction: Enhanced Multi-Media Learning Environment or Cognitive Overload? by Dorothy Chun, Associate Professor of German , University of California at Santa Barbara.

Lecture by Benjamin Rifkin, October 27, 1999

Error Gravity Research: Some Findings and a Critique by Benjamin Rifkin, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Russian School at Middlebury College.

Lecture by John Schumann, October 22, 1999

A Neurobiological Perspective on Variable Success in Second Language Acquisition by John Schumann, Professor and Chair, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL, University of California, Los Angeles.

Lecture by Nicolas Shumway, September 24, 1999

Navigating the Academic Rapids: What I wish I Had Known Back When by Nicolas Shumway, Director of the the Institute of Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish American Literature, University of Texas at Austin.

Lecture by Diane Larsen Freeman, April 13, 1999

Chaos/Complexity Theory and Second Language Acquisition Research: Transcending Differences by Diane Larsen Freeman, Professor of Applied Linguistics, School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT.

Lecture by Jim Cummins, March 19, 1999

Putting Language Proficiency in Its Place: The Status of Academic Language Proficiency in the Education of Bilingual Students by Jim Cummins, Professor, Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning, University of Toronto.

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