[PN] Bilinguals may be smarter (29 Nov. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Call for Conference Participation

The Second IEEE International Workshop on
Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Education
National Central University, JungLi, Taiwan, March 23-25, 2004
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Learning Technology Task Force
Notice sent by Dr. Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand
* Keynote and invited speakers:
    1. Roy Pea, Stanford University, USA
    2. Mike Sharples, University of Birmingham, UK
    3. Alan Kay, President of Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
* List of accepted papers is available on worshop website:
http://lttf.ieee.org/wmte2003/

* Call for Conference Papers

Internet Research 5.0: Ubiquity?
International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association
of Internet Researchers, University of Sussex, England,
19-22nd September 2004
Submission site opens: December 15th 2003
Final date for proposal submission: February 2nd 2004
Student Award: Completed paper: July 15th 2004
"The internet seems to be at once everywhere and invisible but
simultaneously it structures only a fraction of the communications of
the total global community.  It can facilitate greater interaction,
understanding and political activism; being used at the same time to
exclude, destroy and exploit.  The much cited ubiquity of the internet
needs to be examined in both the contexts in which it is accepted and
those in which it is contested."
Conference Websites: http://aoir.org/2004
or http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cce/aoir

* Call for Online Conference Proposals

International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language
Teaching and Research - September 25-26, 2004
"The basic aim of this conference is to provide a venue for educators,
established scholars and graduate students to present work on a wide
variety of pedagogical, theoretical and empirical issues as related to
the multi-disciplinary field of second and foreign language teaching
and research. On these two days we will gather to share information
and capitalize on each others' learnings, experiences and contributions.
This conference will also give you an opportunity to make global
connections with people in your field. The two days of sessions will be
supplemented by keynote speeches delivered by distinguished professionals."
For more information visit:
http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/index.html
Abstracts may be submitted online at:
http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/abstract.html
For more information, contact Meena Singhal (msinghal@uci.edu),
John Liontas (jliontas@nd.edu) or Adrian Wurr (awurr@uncg.edu).
Editors-The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal
http://www.readingmatrix.com/journal.html
[Presenters will have to pay, but the format resembles earlier online
conferences focused on higher education or pan-disciplinary - Ed.]

* Reference Websites

Internet in Asia blog
Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University.
"[N]ews items and academic research concerning the social, cultural,
economic, and political impact of the Internet and other new media
technologies in Asia."
Via the Association of Internet Researchers list <air-l@aoir.org>
http://Sirc.blogspot.com

* Periodical articles

"There has been a lot of discussion of the deteriorating uptake of
languages in schools, and clear links with socio-economic status
(links 1 and 2).  The third link is directly related to e-learning."
Sent by PN subscriber Dr Jenny Willis, University of Surrey
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1087804,00.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1087497,00.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1087179,00.html

Children Raised Bilingually May Be Smarter
RedNova News, November 13, 2003
"the bilingual children's enhanced cognitive skills are due to the
increased computational demands of processing two different language
systems ... researchers want to see where and how the brain processes
two languages, and to learn whether adult bilinguals also show this
cognitive advantage." [My survey of 195 adult consecutive bilinguals,
Japanese-English and English-Japanese (as in my case), indicated all
additive bilinguality and cognitive benefits for most subjects. - Ed.]
http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/2/2003/11/13/story005.html

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
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