The International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE), one of the partners of the Center for Excellence in World Arts, has collaborated a second time with the International Orality Network to produce a volume of the Orality Journal dedicated to equipping people to engage local arts in oral contexts. Journal contributors hail from five continents. Representation from…
Announcement: The Eighth Annual DFW mini-conference will be hosted by Dallas International on Friday, 21 October 2016, in the Activity Center on the Dallas International Campus. It is a full day’s event, featuring talks and posters by students and faculty members from the four participating schools (Dallas International, UNT, UTA, and TAMUC) in any linguistic…
The Spring picnic was a hit! Check out the video below for pictures from the event. The Dallas International Student Body Association holds a campus-wide picnic twice a year. It’s a great time for students to take a break from homework and relax with friends, faculty and staff.
The head of Dallas International’s Applied Anthropology Department, Steve Walter, traveled to Thailand in June to present on his work on Mother Tongue Education in East Timor. Abstract: The new country of East Timor has a small population, but its people speak 20 different local languages and 3 “foreign” languages – Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese, and English.…
Dallas International Academic Forum Thursday, May 26, 12:20-1:15, “Brown Bag Lunch” Mahler 7 Dallas International Megacourse Literacy Students “The Karen/Karenni Project in Dallas: Drawing Connections to English through Mother-Tongue Literacy” In an experimental program to help illiterate Burmese refugees in the Dallas area learn to read English, the Megacourse students developed a Roman script orthography…
The International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE), one of the partners of the Center for Excellence in World Arts, has collaborated with the International Orality Network in producing a volume of the Orality Journal focused exclusively on the use of ethnoarts in oral contexts. Contributions from the Dallas International community include articles by Wendy Atkins (student),…
Descriptive vs. expressive reduplication in Kimaragang and beyond Dr. Paul Kroeger, Dallas International Thursday, April 28, 12:20-1:15, “Brown Bag Lunch” Mahler 7 This talk describes “expressive” (or “affective”) uses of reduplication in Kimaragang (a Philippine-type language of northern Borneo); that is, the use of reduplication to express the speaker’s feelings or attitudes rather than to…
Dallas International ACADEMIC FORUM All are welcome: Tuesday, March 29, 12:20-1:15, Note change from THURSday to TUESday “Brown Bag Lunch” Mahler 7 Dr. Steve Walter, Dallas International & SIL “School Transplantation, Multilingual Education, and other Educational Strategies in East Timor” In the newly independent country of E. Timor, multiple experimental educational programs are currently underway,…