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#CIOLMD15 Had a great day today. Met some very nice & interesting people and made some useful connections. Thanks.
Drinks reception #CIOLMD15 - Got the chance to practise my Russian with @irinayoung and finally met @sueleschen in person. Until next year!
Andy Kirkpatrick on English as an (imposed) lingua franca in ASEAN countries (with 1000+ languages!). Thought-provoking lecture #CIOLMD15
RT @CIOLinguists: Huge thanks to all who attended this year's #CIOLMD15; as ever, it's our members who make ... http://t.co/xUPLa6wyAO
At CIOL Members' Day today. Good to see so many familiar faces and some new ones too. #CIOLMD15
Absolutely fascinating Threlford Lecture from Andy Kirkpatrick - seeing English from an Asian not European perspective. #CIOLMD15
Kirkpatrick: Europeans doing business in Asia need to be familiar with Asian models of English and how English is used there. #CIOLMD15
Kirkpatrick: adults are actually better language learners than babies - we don't need 12 years 24 hours a day! #CIOLMD15
Kirkpatrick: In Asia English is not just being taught, it is also being re-framed, re-shaped, re-conceptualised #CIOLMD15
Hong Kong: English v important. Kids having to learn maths/science in EN but not doing as well in them as in Mandarin/Cantonese #CIOLMD15
Philippines introduced primary teaching in regional/native languages but no prep/support for teachers #CIOLMD15 Sound familiar?!
A Kirkpatrick: Take the home language out of school and it kills the language. Parents stop speaking to children in that language #CIOLMD15
A Kirkpatrick: in Asia when English is introduced in schools it almost always replaces the local/regional language #CIOLMD15
'Singapore language education policy has been spectacularly unsuccessful: English crowding out other languages': Andy Kirkpatrick #CIOLMD15
More Asian multilingual speakers of English than native EN speakers. Native EN speakers need to learn how this is changing EN #CIOLMD15
ASEAN Charter - Assoc of South East Asia. Working language is English. Assumed from outset #CIOLMD15
'English being taught earlier in SE Asian countries with devastating impact' Andy Kirkpatrick @Griffith_Uni #CIOLMD15
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