The
November 2002 issue offers:
WORLD LANGUAGES:
Language academies are sometimes regarded as ineffectual institutions
operated by elitist cliques who are out of touch with the real
words on the street. Is this reputation justified? Ben Ward
investigates.
BILINGUALISM:
Steven Donahue talks to Francois Thibaut of The Language
Workshop for Children in Manhattan about unlocking the secrets
to successfully raising a multilingual child.
HERITAGE LANGUAGES: Michael Greto reports on the rapid
growth of interest in Italian as a second language in the U.S.
SPECIAL
REPORT: Kevin Revolinski experiences oral tradition firsthand
during his conversation with a Maya Daykeeper in Guatemala.
DIALECTS: Thomas E. Murray describes the
factors that have placed St. Louis at the center of a rich and
changing mixture of dialect features.
CONFERENCE REPORT: Brian Kluepfel reports
from "Translation and the Reproduction of Culture" conference,
held last month at The University of California, Irvine.
ELECTRONIC
EDUCATION: Barry Bakin continues his look at lessons
for the one-computer classroom.
ITALY:
Adrian Bridgwater spent a year in Rome discovering
the delights of the Italian language and a pizza or two.
LANGUAGE
TRAVEL: Learning a new language can be very rewarding. Studying
a language while surrounded by native speakers is probably the
best experience of all, explains Mark Franks
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