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North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in
Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that
is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying
language with few left who speak it. North American Icelandic is
the only book about the nature and development of this variety of
Icelandic. It details the social and linguistic constraints of one
specific feature of North American Icelandic phonology undergoing
change, namely Flamaeli, which is the merger of two sets of front
vowels. Although Flamaeli was once a part of traditional Icelandic,
it was considered too confusing and was systematically eradicated
from the language. But in North America, Flamaeli use spread
unchecked, allowing the rare opportunity of viewing the evolution
of a dialect from its birth to its impending demise.
This volume contains articles in the fields of translation theory.
Litlerature and linguistics, and will appeal to international
specialists in the humanities, especially in English and Icelandic
studies.
Learning and teaching languages in an online environment is one of
contemporary education's great challenges. The challenge is made
particularly difficult because language learners benefit from a
social constructivist approach in which individual learners learn
by doing together - negotiating meaning in collaborative
interaction. The open source revolution in technology has opened up
the possibility of communal efforts to develop technological
solutions to such pedagogical challenges. This volume brings
together reports from the Covcell Project which developed
collaborative tools for the learning management system, Moodle,
with papers relating to a range of other tools for online language
teaching, in a number of domains including language for special
purposes, foreign language equivalency certification, cultural
learning practices and oral skills development.
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