Don’t miss the latest addition of GIALens. This issue features the following articles: A preliminary wordlist of Mashco Piro by Steve Parker, Dallas International University professor. Putting stress where it belongs: Stress rules for Turkish language learners by Steven Woodard Jr., Dallas International University alumnus. You can view this and previous additions of this electronic…
The Murle are a cattle-loving people living in the flood plains of South Sudan. Their total population numbers about 148,000. Jon and Barb Arensen lived with the Murle from 1976 to 1984 and eventually helped complete the translation of the New Testament in 1996. In the process, pastors were educated and over 60 churches were…
Come join us for the annual Easter choir program on Sunday night in the ILC, Activity Center. The evening will begin with an instrumental, oboe, flute, violin, and piano prelude. If you would like to enjoy this twice, come to Transform at the Turning Point Church at 10:10 a.m. on Wed. April 1, where it…
There is a new place on campus to study, snack, and refresh! Don’t miss the dedication next week (TBA). Thank you to all of the WA volunteers, the design team, and the ILC administration who created such a wonderful new community space.
Roundtable discussion: Contextualization vs. Syncretism: how do we identify the limits of proper contextualization? Hunt Conference Room March 11th 3:30-5:00
The Genevan choir will be performing on campus at Transform on March 11, from 10:10 until 11:05 a.m. at Turning Point Church (former Museum building). Visitors welcome. Don’t miss this opportunity. The Genevans are a student choir from Geneva College in Pennsylvania. The choir has a long tradition of excellence dating from over a century…
Linguistic Competition and Multilingual Education (MLE) in East Timor Dr. Steve Walter, Dallas International and SIL Thursday, Feb. 12, 12:20-1:15, “Brown Bag Lunch” Mahler 7 In the new country of East Timor, a quiet but vigorous debate is taking shape over language policy in education. Some favor Portuguese, a remnant of 500 years of colonization.…
Check out these photos from 2014. It was an exciting year at Dallas International with the launch of our BA program! You may recognize a few faces.