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    • " Toward a People's English: Back to BASIC in EIL" --Sept 2005 issue of Humanising Language Teaching :
           http://www.hltmag.co.uk/sep05/mart05.htm
        Bill Templer is a Chicago-born linguist and teacher of English as an international language. He has taught English, German and American Studies at universities in the U.S., Ireland, Germany, Iran, Nepal, Israel, Bulgaria, the Lao PDR and southern Thailand. A widely published translator from German and Hebrew, he is on the staff of the Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig, and on the editorial advisory board of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. He is currently based at Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, Sikao district, Trang province, Thailand.
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    • "Prospects for Global English : Back to BASIC ?" by David Simpson
      The Yale Journal of Criticism - Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 1998, pp. 301-307
      The Johns Hopkins University Press
          What it could be. How it succeeded, where it failed. Democratic imperative.
          [Synopsis]   by Bill Templer
    • "The shape of things to come? Some Basic questions about English as a lingua franca"   by Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna)
      Lingua franca communication, 2002, pp, 269-302
          [doc] - 125KB .
    • "Revitalizing the BASIC ENGLISH of Ogden and Richards: Toward New Conceptions of a People’s English as a Lingua Franca""   by Bill Templer. From the Proceedings of the Inaugural International Conference "Teaching and Learning of English: Towards an Asian Perspective," 14-16 November 2005, Penang, Malaysia, organized by the Faculty of Communication & Modern Languages, University of Northern Malaysia. Published on CD-ROM, ISBN: 983 - 42825 - 0 - 8. 11 & 13 pages.
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    • English Rules -- as in rules-the-roost.
      Language skills are short through the world, but in commerce, English rules.
    • Intel's Internal Approach -- They teach foreign culture, while conducting business in English, the international language
    • Andy Rooney : Not being sad over lost languages.
    • Adjectives and the Work of Modernism in an Age of Celebrity by Aaron Jaffe . -- If a novelist can survive translation into Basic, there is something solid under his language. 30 pages in .DOC format.

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