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Jenni Young

Lobbying for English in Indonesia denies children mother-tongue education - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...a-mother-tongue-english-debate

Language Culture Global languages Mother tongue

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    Indonesia's new primary school curriculum has been lambasted for 'dropping' English, but its real failure is to deny children in this multilingual nation a chance to learn in their mother tongue
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Losing our mother tongue - 0 views

www.phnompenhpost.com/...losing-our-mother-tongue.html

Language Language Death Khmer

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    Article from Phnom Penh Post about the loss of Khmer as a mother tongue
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Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language | Talk Video | TED - 0 views

www.ted.com/...lhouk_don_t_kill_your_language

Language Part 1 Global English Language Death Mother Tongue Culture Arabic

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  • Jenni Young on 24 Mar 14
     
    More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)
  • Jenni Young on 24 Mar 14
     
    More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)
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A history lost in translation - 1 views

www.phnompenhpost.com/...story-lost-in-translation.html

Language Cambodia Mother Tongue

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  • Jenni Young on 06 Apr 13
     
    article from PP Post about Srekor I, a village where Laotian is the mother tongue
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links to articles on Mother Tongue Based Multi-Lingual Education - 0 views

mlenetwork.org/...bilingual-education

Language Part 1 Education Bilingualism

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    from the Mother Tongue Based-Multi-Lingual Education Network
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Two Song Cycles by Liza Lim : The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...140428crmu_music_ross

Language Part 1 Identity Culture Language Death

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  • Jenni Young on 28 Apr 14
     
    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture (Review)
  • Jenni Young on 28 Apr 14
     
    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture.
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Mother Tongue by Amy Tan - 0 views

teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/...mother%20tounge.pdf

Language Culture Identity

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    Amy Tan's essay about her mother's 'tongue'
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The school where they speak 20 languages - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...20-languages-gladstone-primary

Language Bilingualism

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    Guardian article about a UK school where no pupil has English as a mother tongue.
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European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...an-language-tongue-superfamily

Language Language Families

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  • Jenni Young on 08 May 13
     
    Eurasiatic languages from Portugal to Siberia form 'superfamily' with root in southern Europe 15,000 years ago, scientists claim
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European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...an-language-tongue-superfamily

Language Part 1 Language families History of language

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  • Jenni Young on 25 Sep 13
     
    Eurasiatic languages from Portugal to Siberia form 'superfamily' with root in southern Europe 15,000 years ago, scientists claim
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Indonesia to end teaching of English in primary schools - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ary-november-indonesia-english

Language Culture Global languages Mother Tongues Bilingualism

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    The teaching of English in Indonesia's primary schools will end next year as the government attempts to reverse falling standards in Bahasa Indonesia
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It Takes A Classroom To Learn The Family Language - 0 views

www.npr.org/...m-to-learn-the-family-language

Language Part 1 Identity Learning languages Mother Tongue

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  • Jenni Young on 27 Oct 13
     
    Many first- and second-generation Americans are turning to classrooms to relearn their heritage languages (NPR)
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Narendra Modi's Election Sparks Hope for Sanskrit - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ope-for-sanskrit-in-india.html

Language Part 1 Mother Tongue Sanskrit India Culture Identity

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  • Jenni Young on 18 Jun 14
     
    Proponents of teaching the ancient scholarly language dream of its revival under the government of India's new prime minister.
  • Jenni Young on 18 Jun 14
     
    Proponents of teaching the ancient scholarly language dream of its revival under the government of India's new prime minister.
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A Devotion to Language Proves Risky - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-to-language-proves-risky.html

Language Part 1 Chinese Uighur Human Rights Mother Tongue

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  • Jenni Young on 12 May 14
     
    Last August, three men were arrested and accused of "illegal fund-raising," charges that stemmed from their effort to finance a Uighur-language school in Xinjiang, China (NT Times)
  • Jenni Young on 12 May 14
     
    Last August, three men were arrested and accused of "illegal fund-raising," charges that stemmed from their effort to finance a Uighur-language school in Xinjiang, China (NT Times)
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Newly Elected Parliamentarians Take Oath in Sanskrit - 0 views

india.blogs.nytimes.com/...ntarians-take-oath-in-sanskrit

Language Part 1 Mother Tongue Sanskrit India

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  • Jenni Young on 07 Jun 14
     
    An usually high number of lawmakers took their oaths in Sanskrit on the second day of the new Parliament session in New Delhi.
  • Jenni Young on 07 Jun 14
     
    An usually high number of lawmakers took their oaths in Sanskrit on the second day of the new Parliament session in New Delhi.
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A Creole Solution for Haiti's Woes - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-solution-for-haitis-woes.html

Language Part 1 French Creole Haiti Mother Tongue Global languages

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  • Jenni Young on 08 Aug 14
     
    Children should learn in the language they speak at home, not French.
  • Jenni Young on 08 Aug 14
     
    Children should learn in the language they speak at home, not French.
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