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[MLE] Progress report: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Dear MLE Interest group, Several of you are involved in advocacy for indigenous people groups. In such cases it is nice to have the back-up of international high level documents.

[MLE] Indian row over English teaching (2)

Dear MLE Interest group, Prof Rajesh Sachdeva of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) informed us below of the CIIL response to this discussion.

[MLE] Indian row over English teaching

Dear MLE interest group, For those of you who do not have an Indian newspaper you might not be aware of this interesting controversy in Karnataka, one of the southern states in India.

[MLE] Google launches literacy portal

Dear Interest group, For those who like browsing, Google launched a literacy portal. It is easy to take look: www.google.com/literacy .

[MLE] "Interfaces in Multilingualism" (book)

Dear MLE Interest group, The more scholarly folks among us might be interested in the below announcement of a Research Center on Multilingualism at the Univeristy of Hamburg. Look at the details at http://linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-748.html The folks of that instutute wrote a book "Interfaces in Multilingualism" which is discussed below.