Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)

Discusses sensitivity to other cultural values and second language skills in Canada. Believes three conditions are essential to further Canadians' understanding of fellow Canadians who speak other languages including requirements which reflect this as a priority; programs should stress cultural achievements associated with languages; current…

The coming challenge is to equip supervisors and managers with the requisite skills to manage a multilingual, multicultural workforce effectively. This includes training of people entering the United States from other nations, and also Americans working in other countries. (CT)

Reviews the background of the "TARGET Project for Aids to Translation," its current facilities, and its goals. Describes the system's central feature as an interactive, multilingual terminology database intended to eliminate time wasted in researching unknown terms and to facilitate final document production, study of person-machine…

Shows how educational policies have been used to try to bring about a sense of unity while favoring a particular ethnic group in a culturally plural society. An historical account of colonial immigration and educational policies is given. It is argued that educational policy alone cannot elicit racial or cultural harmony. (Author/PJM)

Discusses the field of language for business. Argues for redressing the balance of research into business as a site of language contact in favor of less well-represented languages and cultures through indigenous discourse studies, and notes the increasing frequency and importance of work involving Asian languages. (Author/VWL)

Focuses on the language situation in Luxembourg, examining the interference between Letzeburgesch on one hand and, French German, and English on the other. Bourdieu's concept of legitimate language is modified to match the situation in Luxembourg of "triglossia with trilinguaism" and the legitimate multilingual language competence, which…

Focuses on language contact phenomena at the borders of Switzerland's four language communities (German, French, Italian, and Romansch), the legal status of the four Swiss national languages, and the language policies of individual bilingual and trilingual cantons. Describes the historical movements of the language boundaries, with particular…

Explores alternative conceptions of literacy that emphasize economic, historical, transnational, technological, and other expanded notions of literacy that the author believes hold much more potential for improving access to literacy in a multilingual world. Suggests that educators should consider all of the possibilities that dual-language…

Examination of differences in the language-learning strategies of monolingual and multilingual adults found no clear evidence that multilinguals were superior in language-learning abilities overall, although they were more able to adjust their learning strategies according to language task requirements. (Author/CB)

This article examines the position of the Tamil language in Singapore. It is one of the four languages in Singapore but shows signs of decline in recent years relative to English, Chinese, and Malay. The reasons for this are explored. (Contains 24 references.) (JL)

To identify practical recommendations for effective ways to teach culturally and linguistically diverse student bodies, international school teachers (K-12) from the International School of Berne, Switzerland, were interviewed. Part 1 of this article, published in the November 1993 issue of "International Schools Journal," covered…

Discusses situations in which mother-tongue education may not be desirable. Separate sections discuss language in education systems, multilingual settings, mother-tongue education in the "Cosmopolis," determining the mother tongue, definition of a language, social and ethnic divisiveness of mother-tongue education. The final section…

Offers insight into English in the multilingual nation of South Africa at the turn of the new millennium. Describes the social history of English in South Africa to provide the background against which this special issue of this journal came about. Highlights features of each of the articles included in the issue. (Author/VWL)

Reviews the first conference arranged by the European Region of the Association for Business Communication from the point of view of the organizers. Reviews both of the activities of developing a theme and naming the tracks for which papers were invited. Suggests that it is important to consider how communicators make sense of a multilingual and…