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The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics

Issue of Monday, July 13th, 2020

DeGraff @ TESOL

On July 18, 2020, 9AM, Michel DeGraff will be a keynote speaker at this year’s TESOL (“Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages”) conference.  His title:

 #BlackLivesMatter, SO NO LANGUAGE IS « OTHER » !

More information available at:

https://buff.ly/3eVtGd0

Annauk Olin @ AILDI summer session

MIT Indigenous Languages Initiative (MITILI) student Annauk Olin (Iñupiaq) received a scholarship to participate in the American Indian Language Development Institute’s (AILDI) summer session. AILDI’s mission is to provide critical training to strengthen efforts to revitalize and promote the use of Indigenous language across generations. Annauk will be taking a class on “Master Apprentice Immersion Methods”.  Congratulations Annauk!