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UPDATE/ The Guyana Institute of Historical Research's 11th Annual Conference, set to take place on June 30, has moved location from the National Library to the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.
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EDUCATION/ Two GLU members, Dhanaiswary Jaganauth and Charlene Wilkinson, lecturers in Linguistics and Education, appeared on the Ministry of Education programme 'Talking about Education' on Thursday, June 7, to announce our new Creolese course. They chatted with Pauline Stanford, Co-ordinator of the Distance Education and Information Unit of National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD), for about 15 minutes about the importance of children's first language in their learning and all-round development.
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VOLUNTEER/ The Guyana Languages Unit (GLU) needs your support. If you would like to be involved, please respond to this email for more info. Whether you want to help fundraise, organise events, improve our website, write for us... we want to hear from you!
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WATCH/ What's the difference between language dialects and varieties? Check out this interesting video, exploring Dutch/German, Chinese and Jamaican Creole.
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CONSULTATION/ GLU members recently attended a two-day consultation on writing problems at the tertiary level. During discussions, Charlene Wilkinson spoke briefly on the undeniable convergence of social rights and language policy, which would need to be addressed if solutions are to be sustainable. The GLU recognises that although the consultation identified writing as the problem, what manifests as a writing problem (because writing is visible) is actually a language issue – and one that needs to be at the centre of our discussions going forward. The GLU wishes to applaud Deputy Vice Chancellor Michael Scott and his team on this very important consultation, and to assure the UG administration of our support in the crafting of solutions.
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REGISTER/ The GLU's second Introduction to Writing in Creolese course began on 11 June but it's not too late to join. For more information on this and upcoming courses,
visit our website.
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FEEDBACK/ We were delighted to receive the following message of support from the Pro-Chancellor of UG regarding the GLU's upcoming Creolese writing course: "Dear Colleagues of the GLU. Thank you for sharing with me the information relating to this laudable initiative. I express the hope that the participants of the new course, Introduction to Writing in Creolese, to be conducted at the Turkeyen and Tain Campuses, will find it of great value. Such value-added expertise will facilitate better contextual communication and interpretation in the process of transferring knowledge and promoting good interaction between teachers and students and especially those from rural communities.
Warmest regards
Pro-Chancellor
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IN THE NEWS/ Ovid Williams, a member of the Guyanese Languages Unit and champion of indigenous rights, has launched a new service to translate documents into each of the nine indigenous languages of Guyana. More info and contact details available online.
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