#language curriculum

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

April 15th is National American Sign Language (ASL) Day, observed annually to celebrate the ASL community and its contributions to inclusivity, and to encourage folks to learn the language. Regarded as a natural language, sign language has likely existed for as long as there has been a need to communicate, however, the emergence of ASL is largely credited to Thomas Gallaudet (1787-1851) founder of the American School for the Deaf. Uniting deaf children from the western hemisphere the American School for the Deaf was fertile soil for language contact, developing ASL from French Sign Language, village sign languages, and home sign systems. Today, more than a half-million people throughout the United States use ASL to communicate as their native language. 

In recognition of the day, we’re sharing another book from our Historical Curriculum Collection the Basic Pre-School Signed English Dictionary published by Gallaudet College Press in 1973. Signed English features drawn signs with written instructions to represent 975 words most frequently used by and with pre-school children. The editors also include sign markers and the American Manual Alphabet to be used in conjunction with the vocabulary, encouraging a language that is adaptable and offers a more complete English model of communication. 

Signed English was edited in part by Harry Bornstein and Karen Saulnier who worked on several signing books for young readers throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and illustrated by Jack Fennell and Ann Silver. 

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

#milestone monday #national american sign language day #asl #thomas gallaudet #american school for the deaf #basic pre-school signed english dictionary #Gallaudet College Press #Harry Bornstein #Karen Saulnier #Jack Fennell #Ann Silver #historical curriculum collection #children's books

[revasserium]

the unofficial ultimate bungo stray dogs reading list

this is mainly for myself bc i rly do want to read most if not all of these and i'm sure it's already been done by someone somewhere. but, i thought why not post it lmao; most if not all of these can be found on anna's archive, z-library, or project gutenberg! (also, consider buying from your local bookstore!) for those that are a bit harder to find, i've included links, though some are from j-stor and would require login to access.

detective agency:

osamu dazai:

no longer human (novel)

the setting sun (novel)

nakajima atsushi:

the moon over the mountain: stories (short story collection)

light, wind and dreams (short story)

fukuzawa yukichi:

an encouragement of learning (17 volume collections of writings)

all the countries of the world, for children written in verse (textbook)

yosano akiko:

kimi shinitamou koto nakare (poem)

midaregami (poetry collection)

edogawa ranpo:

the boy detectives club (book series)

japanese tales of mystery and imagination (short story collection)

the early cases of akechi kogoro (novel)

kunikida doppo:

river mist and other stories (short story collection)

izumi kyouka:

demon lake (play)

spirits of another sort: the plays of izumi kyoka (play collection)

tanizaki junichirou:

the makioka sisters (novel)

the red roof and other stories (short story collection)

miyazawa kenji:

ame ni mo makezu; be not defeated by the rain (poem)

night on the galactic railroad (novel)

strong in the rain (poetry collection)

port mafia:

mori ougai:

vita sexualis (novel)

the dancing girl (novel)

nakahara chuuya:

poems of nakahara chuya (poetry collection)

akutagawa ryuunosuke:

rashoumon (short story)

the spider's thread (short story)

rashoumon and other stories (short story collection)

ozaki kyouyou:

the gold demon (novel)

higuchi ichiyou:

in the shade of spring leaves (biography and short stories)

hirotsu ryuurou:

falling camellia (novel)

tachihara michizou:

in mourning for the summer (poem)

midwinter momento (poem)

from the country of eight islands: an anthology of japanese poetry (poetry collection)

kajii motojirou:

lemon (short story)

yumeno kyuusaku:

dogra magra (novel)

oda sakunosuke:

flawless/immaculate (short story)

sakaguchi ango:

darakuron (essay)

the guild:

f. scott fitzgerald:

the great gatsby (novel)

the beautiful and the damned (novel)

edgar allen poe:

the raven (poem)

the black cat (short story)

the murders in the rue morgue (short story)

herman melville:

moby dick (novel)

h.p. lovecraft:

the call of cthulhu (short story)

the shadow out of time (novella)

john steinbeck:

the grapes of wrath (novel)

of mice and men (novel)

lucy maud montgomery:

anne of green gables (novel)

the blue castle (novel)

chronicles of avonlea (short story collection)

louisa may alcott:

little women (novel)

the brownie and the princess (short story collection)

margaret mitchell:

gone with the wind (novel)

mark twain:

the adventures of tom sawyer (novel)

adventures of huckleberry finn (novel)

nathaniel hawthorn:

the scarlet letter (novel)

rats in the house of the dead:

fyodor dostoevsky:

crime and punishment (novel)

the brothers karamozov (novel)

notes from the underground (short story collection)

alexander pushkin:

eugene onegin (novel)

a feast in time of plague (play)

ivan goncharov:

the precipice (novel)

oguri mushitarou:

the perfect crime (novel)

decay of the angel:

fukuchi ouchi:

the mirror lion, a spring diversion (kabuki play)

bram stoker:

dracula (novel)

dracula's guest and other weird stories (short story collection)

nikolai gogol:

the overcoat (short story)

dead souls (novel)

hunting dogs: (i must caveat here that the hunting dogs are named after much more comparatively obscure jpn writers/playwrights so i was unable to find a lot of the specific pieces actually mentioned; but i still wanted to include them on the list because well -- it wouldn't be a bsd list without them)

okura teruko:

gasp of the soul (short story; i wasn't able to find an english translation)

devil woman (short story)

jouno saigiku:

priceless tears (kabuki play; no translation but at least we have a summary)

suehiro tetchou:

setchuubai/a political novel: plum blossoms in snow (novel)

division for unusual powers:

taneda santouka:

the santoka: versions by scott watson (poetry collection)

tsujimura mizuki:

lonely castle in the mirror (novel)

yesterday's shadow tag (short story collection; i was unable to find a translation)

order of the clock tower:

agatha christie:

and then there were none (novel)

murder on the orient express (novel)

she is the best selling fiction writer of all time there's too much to list here

mimic:

andre gide:

strait is the gate (novel)

trascendents:

arthur rimbaud:

illuminations (poetry collection)

the drunken boat (poem)

a season in hell (prose poem)

johann von goethe:

faust

the sorrows of young werther

paul verlaine:

clair de lune (poem, yes it did inspire the debussy piece, yes)

poems under saturn (poetry collection)

victor hugo:

the hunchback of notre-dame (novel)

les miserables (novel)

william shakespeare:

romeo and juliet (play)

a midsummer nights' dream (play)

sonnets (poetry collection)

the seven traitors:

jules verne:

around the world in 80 days (novel)

journey to the center of the earth (novel)

twenty thousand leagues under the seas (novel)

other:

natsume souseki:

i am a cat (novel)

kokoro (novel)

botchan (novel)

h.g. wells:

the time machine (novella)

the invisible man (novel)

the war of the worlds (novel)

shibusawa tatsuhiko:

the travels of prince takaoka (novel; unable to find translation)

dr. mary wollstonecraft godwin shelley

frankenstein (novel)

#bungo stray dogs #bsd #literature #dark academia #reading list #academia #i'm sure there's people i've missed but i did my best LOL #this also really throws into a stark contrast how relatively un-worldly american literary curriculums really are #obviously; it makes vague sense to focus american literary schooling on the western 'canon' bc so much of the english language #is influenced by it and the 'culture' is more touched by it but HOLY SHIT does it just... astound me #how uneducated i am on even east asian literature (from wheremst i technically hail!!!) #i know like.... maybe 3?? 4??? chinese writers off cuff??? #like the only reason i even know anything about jpn literature is i got my minor in jpn so i read some stuff but WOWWWWW there's a wORLD. #the fact that i knew not a SINGLE work by most of these jpn writers but as soon as we got to the guild members #i didn't even have to fucking google/wiki -- i just KNEW off the top of my head #kinda fucked up tbh;;;; #anyway this list is massive but i think at least dipping my foot into some of the poems/short stories will be fun

[rosefulmadness]

bro why are languages so hard like come on now I just wanna be able to communicate

with friends? with family? with my roots? all of them THAT'S A LOT OF LANGUAGES WITH THEIR OWN ALPHABETS there's never enough time

#and I'm embarrassed about my pronunciation too #i found someone to help me with hindi #maybe i can ask suhaila to help me with darija #and i need to convince my dad to help me with arabic #i wanna try learn german too and i need to keep practicing korean or i'll forget #i also want to try tagalog to speak with friends #and urdu while we're at it #I'm fighting the urge to learn telugu and its only working because theres limited resources for that language #and i need to learn asl cause like #my dad is deaf and ive been scolded way to many times for being loud and most of the time he can't hear me anyways #and i need to make him get hearing aids cause hes too stubborn #my grandma is probably gonna get mad i dont speak french with her if she sees me speaking arabic with dad #remind me to ask my grandpa if he speaks galaico #catalán is easy so im not worried about that #AND I NEED TO ASK AUNTIE TO TEACH ME AFRIKAANS OMG I FORGOT #being mixed is a struggle fr #its fun tho #my curriculum is gonna be popping #languages #language learning #help

[natjennie]

i need professional websites to just come down off their fucking high horse for a second and speak to me like a person. "your associates degree of science in core curriculum with pathway courses related to" SHUT UP!!!! speak normal!!!!!!!! please just tell me what classes I'd need to take and how I do it for fucks sake.

#im trying to figure out the least painful way i can get a degree in something. anything. #just make it easy and not make me want to kms #it looks like this school has a general studies associates degree? #which sounds like you just do the core curriculum and then like. a bunch of electives of whatever you want. #and then you get a degree?? but idk bc of all the bs language #i want to email someone like 'please tell me in normal person english ffs can i just take some classes of whatever and get a degree?' #'is that what this is' #dont tell me about capstones or senior theses. im gonna punch my computer #someone just tell me what to do to make it easy

[hecckyeah]

calling all my lovely ESL friends!!!

I'm currently tutoring a younger teenager in English, and he's doing great with spelling and pronunciation, but struggles with sentence structure/grammar/etc. I told him to start reading some English books and that we would then discuss them and I'd have him write some short (very short) essays on them to work through his thoughts on paper.

Basically my question is, what helped you the most in learning English? Were there specific books you liked or movies you watched a lot, or something else that you relied on or that was a turning point in the learning process?

Open to any/all insight and recommendations!

#esl #english as a second language #this is my first time teaching ESL honestly #I've tutored reading and writing in the past but those were peers in college who knew the language #i already picked out a book or two for him to read but i know he needs more than that! #and his school workbooks and curriculum are meh at best #anyway! #:)

[wtfcl0ud]

do i want to manipulate this data and if so how? do i want to record all the students who gave their pre form 4/5 langs or do i want to delete those who did hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

#this is kinda on me for how i stated the question #but also i didnt expect them to interpret the question ... wrongly? #bc like if ur studying a lang for ur o level exam #n i ask how long u've been studying the lang #u cant tell me just the two years where u were explicitly studying it for the exam???? #u have to tell me the 5 years u wldve studied it since u started school #bc i asked how long u've been studying the lang #not how long u've been studying it for exam????? #also if i ask any other languages u study #the majority of students put languages they stuided in the past #which technically not what i asked for? #but some put the lang they studied from form 1 to 3 but didnt continue for 4 to 5 #so like i have no idea how to parse these responses #all students are supposed to study spanish from 1 to 3 it's non negotiable curriculum mandated #but idk if to include tht #but to be fair it wsnt what i was looking for #so actually yh i know how i will deal with the data #cloud nonsense

[definitelynotplanetfall]

thanks that's exactly what i wanted

#technically this answers the question but it's surprising that the human answers below echo that there are *literally no distinct terms* #they are very different foods both texturally and logistically? even if they are indeed both fried potatoes #i thought that this was something like the distinct terms are all slang and the spanish curriculum had a stick up its ass about vosotros #so it wasn't going to mention them because That's Not Official And We're Going To Teach You Spain Spanish In Florida That'll Be So Useful #at risk of being a chauvinist i think this earns spanish some small amount of clown language points #not that any language will ever have as many clown language points as english

[dysphoric-culture-is]

dysphoric culture is your school refusing to have x markers in student management or even just using gender neutral language on their forms

Dysphoric culture is!

Also, yup sometimes schools just intentionally ignore and exclude their students and it sucks and you just have to wait to graduate/go to a better school.

The use of ‘refusing’ here leads mod to believe that this has brought up to the school and they’re being intentionally exorsexist (something mod deals with in school as well) but hopefully they’ll change their ways eventually anon! And maybe you can join/make a GSA in the meantime?

#mod’s school has a trans inclusive nondiscrimination policy. supposedly #but their forms and curriculum are not trans inclusive at all and school staff are purposely trans exclusionary #so yeah #dysphoria tw #gender dysphoria #dysphoria #dysphoric culture is #x marker #gender neutral language #trans inclusion #nonbinary #trans students #trans #queer #lgbtq #lgbt+

[uwmspeccoll]

Publishers' Binding Thursday

Since it's the beginning of the semester we're sharing an educational book that will help you reach your Language Goals just like the fellow on the cover. Language Goals was written by Dr. Henry G. Paul, professor of the "teaching of English" at University of Illinois, and W.D. Miller, "Formerly Superintendent of Schools, Easthampton, Mass." I've shared several of this sort of book here and for most of them it's been difficult to find anything out about the authors, as is the case here. However, we do know that the publisher, Lyons & Carnahan, was a textbook publisher based in Chicago and published this book in 1931.

The book's cover features some tree or leaf (?) like designs in columns on either side of a man with his arms triumphantly raised atop a long staircase or pyramid. This book has some personal touches to it that we can only assume were added by the person whose name adorns the flyleaf: Russell Frank Engstrom. We also know Engstrom's address (2447 North 62nd Street, Wauwatosa, WI), home room (116) and English teacher (Miss Macdonald, Room 117). There is also a little doodle of a man labeled "Uncle Sam" and written on the foreedge is "R.E. L J.M." and "J.R. L D.W." I can only assume the Ls stand for "loves."

When we preserve books we sometimes also get to preserve some stories or memory of the people who owned them. In this case, the fact that Russell Engstrom of Wauwatosa loved somebody with the initials J.M. when he was in junior high in 1931 gives us the idea that maybe junior high has always been about crushes and who likes who.

View more Publisher's Binding Thursday posts.

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Publishers' Binding Thursday #Publishers' bindings #Language Goals #Dr. Henry G. Paul #W.D. Miller #Lyons & Carnahan #junior high #english #educational books #Historical Curriculum Collection

[minticai]

Could you do a meet the artist?

I got this ask in December but I was too embarrassed to do it then….anyways sorry for the lateness!

#my art #this is still embarrassing I think I’m going to delete this after #anyways i hope i did it right #also French is mandatory in the Canadian curriculum and oh my god i hate it so much #it’s awful #it’s terrible #it’s the worst language to exist

[sexyleon]

I literally fucking hate Florida. Y’all joke about Florida being backwards and laugh about our insane governor, but you literally don’t know what it’s like to live here. At this point, it’s not fucking funny.

#Florida #politics #plz no sexyleon #like desantis is evil he’s not a funny little man #he’s successfully challenged disney and is dissolving their independent special district BECAUSE they spoke out against his policy #he is actively working to remove diversity and equity programs from colleges in the state and remove curriculum from k-12 schools #books are being banned left and right #literally heard this unhinged proposal on the news to gain Florida conceal carry with no permit #you know the state that had two of the most devastating shootings in recent history (pulse nightclub and parkland) #meanwhile there are whole districts of people who are homeless because there’s no affordable housing #…. literally next to multimillion dollar mansions and the biggest tourist industries #eicnksxjwokdieoo I don’t have enough political language to express the horrors that are happening here #just pls stop fucking laughing at us #we are literally texas 2.0 #and those of us who HATE IT have no power to do anything #those of us who hate it are most affected by it

[auramanipulation7-5]

My English textbook has a section on fantasy and Tolkien's works and I have so much to say about it

the idiots misspelled Fëanorian and Lothlorien

Whoever gets that textbook from the schoolboard next has a lot of annotations to sift through because I'm not staying silent

"strange alphabet" they have names they're called the Tengwar and the Angerthas

And if I see Bilbo called "a sort of gnome" ever again I am declaring war

When you know things about a topic that AREN'T in the school essay. The foreword where Tolkien says it's not an allegory is specifically stated as the foreword to the second edition in modern printings

When you actually write annotations IN the aforementioned "strange alphabet"

Seeing repeated mentions of Frodo in a school textbook is 100% disarming

"Should fantasy literature be included in an English language program" why isn't it already

Should I annotate that technically Bilbo is Frodo's cousin and not his uncle?

The "Dark Tower" also has a name it's called Barad-dûr by the way

"Houghton Mifflin even published a set of hardcovers" well duh of course I have a set in my bedroom

#q geeks out #criticism #literature #fandom #tolkien #when you know more than the english textbook #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #nerd #book nerd #geek #geek culture #frodo baggins #bilbo baggins #booklr #english language #English curriculum #textbook #academics #critical academics

[61below]

You’ll never convince me that Hob Gadling, Bookworm Since the 1500s, would be anything other than an English Lit professor.

#History my ass #he’d go crazy trying to keep what really happened vs what the curriculum actually says straight #english or English lit I will die on this hill #$10 he also goes full cage match whenever anyone bitches about language purism #hob gadling #the sandman

[gudamor]

AI bots can do the grunt work of filling out job applications for you | Ars Technica

After LazyApply completed applications for some 5,000 jobs, Joseph says he landed around 20 interviews, a hit rate of about a half percent. Compared to the 20 interviews he’d landed after manually applying to 200 to 300 jobs, the success rate was dismal. But given the time Job GPT saved, Joseph felt it was worth the investment.

The average time to make a new hire reached an all-time high of 44 days this year

#Red queen race #Unnatural language processing #computer programming #job market #There's gotta be a curriculum vitae joke here somewhere

[cupuasu]

was looking at the school systems in latin america and i think our ministries of education should come together n decide some sort of standard fr bc what a mess

#if they could come together to make our car plate look the same ugly ass shit they should come together to do something useful as well #they should copy paste whatever finland is smoking for basic school n then steal whatever cuba is doing in high education #me personally if i could choose i'd divide the basic years in 4 phases #first (til 4yo) second (til 8yo) third (til 12yo) fourth (16yo) #which is similar to what we have but its divided evenly now. also they should make the school hours shorter #no fucking person should be sitting in a chair for over 6h #three months of vacation is a perfect number to be honest (december january july) #oh n we should actually have decent extracurricular activities OR we should b able 2 choose the classes we need #sure make a standard curriculum for ppl who dont know what theyre doing w their life but also let the rest of us bitches choose #i DID NOT need that many chemistry or biology classes. i was not interested then and im not interested now #and also that insane amount of math classes was unnecessary too. even if i use math in uni now #a perfect curriculum for me would be 25% language 25% history + geography 25% math 10% art or PE 5% sciences #these bitches had me doing 40% math 40% portuguese 20% all sciences + random philosophy #oh n while i think a test to get into university is good it should not be like a straight line bc every student is different #for example when i did ENEM the first time i was baffled on how insane the math and sciences part were #(i love the language history and geography part tho) like i think we should also be able to choose that #like when we sign up we say what uni and course we wanna take and then do a test that has nothing to do with it #we should be able to get a personalized test from the already existing database. for example #if im going to do architecture then my test needs more math physics and history. but not as much language geography and fuckass chemistry #even though i LOVE language and geography #wait this rant went too personal already. anyway change the schooling system #and also fix the way teachers are being taught to teach and also pay them better and fund better infrastructure #cos literally til when are politicians gonna put the tax money up their ass? girl you cant even give 30% to education? kill yourself <3 #the way latin america will be stuck in the lower top 50 in education for the next decades is crazy

[mortalfollies]

hmm i think i understand how lyra felt at the end of the amber spyglass now. to understand something intuitively and then realise you have to learn it all over again and it’s much harder this time. sucks!!

#folly's follies #hdm #this is about the english language. the victorian curriculum #uses a lot more metalanguage now. i was never taught metalanguage! i know it but i don't know it at the same time #i was never taught terms like prepositional phrase. i feel like a child #and i can't believe that teaching kids all this terminology helps them but it must!! #according to all the data anyway! #hell and damnation. this shit is frustrating