National Museum of Language Podioma

What is the place of Yiddish in the context of a globalizing world? The role of Yiddish as a heritage language and its present uses by Jewish and non-Jewish speech communities around the world are considered, including Hasidim at one end of a cultural spectrum and European Christians at the other end. A theoretical description of the instruction of Yiddish and language competition with Hebrew and English is supplemented by a personal reflection on what it means to be a Yiddish speaker and Yiddish teacher in today's world.

Discover the vast variety of “World Englishes”; how English has spread around the world and how World Englishes can be a two-edged sword, offering gifts and dangers. How do power, oppression, imperialism, and resistance link to World Englishes?

A presentation sponsored by the National Museum of Language, on May19, 2007

Language and Culture: Inextricably Linked

It has become apparent that language and culture cannot be separated, despite attempts to teach a language in isolation from its culture.

DR. R. DAVID ZORC, Program Manager at the Language Research Center of McNeil, Inc, is an internationally known scholar and applied linguist, Dr. Zorc was awarded the Andrew Gonzalez Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics and Language Education by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines in February 2005. Author of numerous publications, his love for language research and immersion has thus far covered some eighty languages representing five different language families: Austronesian – Philippine, Bantu, Cushitic, Australian Aboriginal, and Indo-European.

A presentation sponsored by the National Museum of Language, on May19, 2007

Language and Culture: Inextricably Linked

It has become apparent that language and culture cannot be separated, despite attempts to teach a language in isolation from its culture.

DR. R. DAVID ZORC, Program Manager at the Language Research Center of McNeil, Inc, is an internationally known scholar and applied linguist, Dr. Zorc was awarded the Andrew Gonzalez Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics and Language Education by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines in February 2005. Author of numerous publications, his love for language research and immersion has thus far covered some eighty languages representing five different language families: Austronesian – Philippine, Bantu, Cushitic, Australian Aboriginal, and Indo-European.

A presentation sponsored by the National Museum of Language, on May19, 2007

Language and Culture: Inextricably Linked

It has become apparent that language and culture cannot be separated, despite attempts to teach a language in isolation from its culture.

DR. R. DAVID ZORC, Program Manager at the Language Research Center of McNeil, Inc, is an internationally known scholar and applied linguist, Dr. Zorc was awarded the Andrew Gonzalez Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics and Language Education by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines in February 2005. Author of numerous publications, his love for language research and immersion has thus far covered some eighty languages representing five different language families: Austronesian – Philippine, Bantu, Cushitic, Australian Aboriginal, and Indo-European.