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Literacy is the best remedy—International Literacy Day 2008
SIL International celebrates the annual United Nations-declared International Literacy Day. This year's theme highlights the clear link between health and literacy—improved health results when life-changing information is available to a community in a language they know best.
Language and globalization conference
The interaction of language and globalization were in focus at a conference sponsored by UNESCO and the United Nations University in Tokyo. An SIL paper emphasized the subsidiary benefits of education in the local language.
Archives and Other News
- August 2008 SIL linguists present symposium on Bantu languages at 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics
- August 2008 SIL presents papers on Caribbean, Creole and Pidgin linguistics
- August 2008 Papers on minority language dialects presented at dialectology conference
- July 2008 Successful reading program unveiled at 22nd World Congress on Reading
- July 2008 Preserving minority languages—focus of conference on language and literacy
- July 2008 New release of Dai Banna SIL fonts
- July 2008 Spanish-taught courses in linguistics, translation and literacy
- July 2008 Royal Institute of Thailand organizes international conference on language policy in Bangkok
- July 2008 International conference on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace
- July 2008 International conference focuses on mother-tongue-based multilingual education
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