From nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk Sun Oct 3 06:08:15 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id GAA115310 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 06:08:14 -0700 Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id GAA25862 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 06:08:10 -0700 Received: from chibcha.demon.co.uk ([158.152.51.25]) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11XlMy-0001Gr-0C; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:08:04 +0000 X-Sender: chibcha@pop3.demon.co.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="macintosh" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:11:52 +0100 To: Recipient List Suppressed:; From: Nicholas Ostler Subject: FEL III Proceedings available: Endangered Languages and Education Dear FEL : The proceedings of the Foundation for Endangered Languages' last conference in Maynooth are now available: "Endangered Languages and Education" It is an 128-page volume, and the contents look like this: Index of Authors 5 Index of Languages and Families 7 Section 1 Setting the Scene 9 Nicholas Ostler Foreword and Prospect: Endangered Languages and Education 11 David Bradley, May Bradley, Li Yongxiang Language Maintenance of Endangered Languages in Central Yunnan, China 13 Section 2 Finding a Policy 21 Alesia Maltz, Dean Fox To Set Tongues Wagging Again. Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara (N. Dakota) 23 Karen M Johnson-Weiner Educating in English to Maintain German - Amish 31 R. McKenna Brown Mayan Language Revitalization in Guatemala 38 Jon Todal The Use of the Saami language in Norwegian schools (abstract) 43 Eugene McKendry Policy and Irish in Northern Ireland Education (abstract) 44 Section 3 Looking at the Learners 45 Rachel Hoare Breton in education in Brittany: passive and active expression of attitudes. 47 Winifred Crombie, Waldo Houia, Tamati Reedy Language Proficiency Testing of Children in Maori Lang. Education 55 Leopoldina Araujo Fire under Ashes: the Parkatj Indians Self-Acknowledgment (abstract) 63 Section 4 Working with Non-Written Languages 65 Blair A. Rudes, Francene Patterson You Can't Say That in Tuscarora: Obstacles to Literacy in an Oral Language 67 Tony McEnery, Mabel Lie, Paul Baker and Mark Sebba A Corpus of Spoken UK Sylheti 71 Vladimir Tourovski On the use of computers for preserving endangered languages (abstract) 77 Section 5 Ways and Means 79 Diane Johnson, Ani Rolleston Whaka piki reo: in-service provision for teachers of and through Mori 81 Joachim Pfaffe The Ju/hoan way of Making School (abstract) 87 Bojan Petek Slovenian language in globalized educational arena (abstract) 88 Section 6 Role of Standard Dialects 89 Agurtzane Elordui Disruption of language transmission among Basque dialects 91 Section 7 Impact and Future Prospects 97 Hasan Ouzzate Dashing Amazigh Hopes to Language School Maintenance (abstract) 99 Andrejs Veisbergs Latvian - from Endangered to Semi-restored Official Language (abstract) 100 Kathleen Tacelosky Bilingual Education and Language among the Shipibo (Peru, Amazon) 101 Sheila M. Shannon The role of All-Irish schools in the revival of the Irish language 109 Jeanette King Lessons from Maori schooling experience - 13 years of immersion schools 117 Tapani Salminen About the UNESCO Advisory Committee for Linguistic Pluralism and Multilingual Education (abstract) 125 Foundation for Endangered Languages: Manifesto 127 Copies are now available, at 12 pounds UK apiece, or US$20 (including surface postage and packing), from the address below. For air-mail dispatch, please add 50%. You can pay by - a cheque (in sterling) payable to Foundation for Endangered Languages. - a check (in US $) payable to Nicholas Ostler. - proof of having sent an equivalent sum in your own currency to the societys account, Foundation for Endangered Languages, Account no: 50073456, The Cooperative Bank (Sort code: 08-90-02), 16 St. Stephen's Street, Bristol BS1 1JR, England. - or by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, EuroCard), enclosing Card number, Expiry date (month | year), Name (as on card), and Address (as on card). All proceeds which come in soon enough will go to support our next round of grants (for which the Call for Applications went out two weeks ago). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Ostler Linguacubun Ltd "technology for the languages of the world" Batheaston Villa, 172 Bailbrook Lane Bath BA1 7AA England +44-1225-85-2865 fax +44-1225-85-9258 nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk .