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Windows Localization – Language for Worldwide and Local Audiences

Who: Ulrike Irmler, Microsoft

When: Monday, April 5, 2010 from 2-4pm

Where: Irvine Auditorium, MIIS

Microsoft Windows covers a breadth of audiences from consumer, to IT professionals to developers. With more than 1 billion customers worldwide and 100 target languages, translation and localization activities span from user interface localization to digital marketing, developer kits, licensing agreements, and many other text and domain types.

Ulrike Irmler, who manages Window’s localization team, will give an overview of the Windows business by presenting several end-to-end localization scenarios (user interface, web content, developer and consumer). She will focus on market-strategy, translation challenges, standards and linguistic quality. Ulrike will also discuss the latest translation paradigms such as machine translation and crowd sourcing in the context of large-scale enterprise localization.

Shirley Brice Heath Visit: Friday, March 19 @ 2

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Who: All Students
What: Visiting scholar, Shirley Brice Heath, shares her recent research
When: Friday, March 19, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Where: MG 100, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Moving the human eye and mind: Visual, musical and literary arts in grounding cognition

Shirley Brice Heath

Economically advanced nations currently reflect a curious twist in reasoning. In spite of strong historical support for parallel economic and aesthetic development in the history of modern Western nations, education systems in many nations today are reducing art, music, and literature in their curricula. Teachers of the humanities and arts hold less prestige than their counterparts in the sciences and mathematics. The inextricable links between the development of science and advances in aesthetic creativity go unnoticed in current arguments for denying opportunities to learn creativity, work across media and modes, and develop expertise in visual perception and renderings of imagination in sketches, drawings, and models. Technological advances make imperative the “reading,” embodying, and creating of images to such an extent that neuroscientists now see these ways of learning as grounding cognition. This lecture considers these research findings in terms of implications for human learning across the life span.

Corpus linguistics and concordancing

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This past weekend GSTILE students, faculty and staff attended a five-hour workshop on corpus linguistics and concordancing, presented by Susan Conrad, an alumna of the MIIS TESOL program, and now a faculty member in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University.

Susan Conrad, corpora and concordancing workshop

Susan’s workshop focused on the use of corpora for language teachers, and covered both software programs and web-based resources.

Materials from Susan’s workshop — as well as those from other GSTILE lecture series events — are available in the GSTILE >> TESOL/TFL section of Moodle: Materials from TESOL/TFL Speaker Series.

Beverly Derewianka, Friday, Feb 19

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Who: TESOL/TFL students & all others with an interest in languages
What: Guest speaker Beverly Derewianka
When: Friday, February 19, 2010, 2:00-4:00 PM
Where: Morse, Room B104

Getting Personal: Using language to engage with readers to express feelings, persuade others to our point of view, judge peoples’ behavior, and moderate our expression of attitude.

A major function of language is to enable the expression of interpersonal meanings – feelings, opinions, judgments, humor, sarcasm, and so on. Often, however, this important aspect of language competency is not taught explicitly, possibly because such meanings are so deeply embedded in the culture that even native speakers are not consciously aware of how they employ these subtle resources. This paper will draw on Appraisal Theory (Martin & White 2005) for a model to help language teachers think about such issues as:

how is language used to express feelings, persuade others to our point of view, judge peoples’ behavior, and so on?
how can we moderate our expression of attitude?
how can we use language to engage with the reader in various ways?

GSTILE welcomes everyone and hopes to see you there.

Spring Lecture Series

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Save the dates!

For further information about the program of dynamic speakers in the GSTILE Lecture Series please contact Angie Quesenberry at the GSTILE Front Desk:

Speaker	Date	Title	Lecture / Workshop
Susan Conrad	February 12/13	Corpus Linguistics Workshop	Workshop
Beverly Derewianka	February 19	GETTING PERSONAL: Using language to engage with readers to express feelings, persuade others to our point of view, judge peoples’ behavior, and moderate our expression of attitude	Lecture
Lynn Vission	March 5-7	Conference Terminology and Procedures	Lecture
Shirley Brice Heath	March 19	Moving the human eye and mind: Visual, musical, and literary arts in grounding cognition	Lecture
Peter Bush	April 1	The Shock of the New: Translating a Classic (Open to all students of all languages)	Lecture
Ulrike Irmler	April 5	Windows Localization – Language for Worldwide and Local Audiences	Lecture
Anne Lafeber	April 9/10	Translating for International Organizations: The Inside Scoop	April 9 –Lecture April 10 – Workshop
Matt Poehner	April 16	Dynamic Assessment	Interactive Lecture / Workshop
Kumaravadivelu	April 30	Language and Identity	Interactive Lecture and Discussion