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Noss, Richard B.; Gonzalez, Andrew, Ed.; Sibayan, Bonifacio
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Language in Schools. Monograph No. 41.
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Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Manila.
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Bilingual Education; *Classroom Communication; Classroom
DESCRIPTORS
Techniques; Communicative Competence (Languages); Curriculum
Design; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries;
Language Acquisition; *Language of Instruction; Language
Research; *Language Role; Language Tests; *Language
Variation; Linguistic Theory; Reading Skills; Second
Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Study
Skills; Teaching Methods; Testing; Writing Skills
ABSTRACT
This monograph attempts to integrate experience and research
findings in several related disciplines and bring them to bear on the problem
schools simultaneously accommodate the
of how to make language programs
needs of both the language curriculum and the general curriculum. It
(1) how specific languages, in all their varieties,
addresses four issues:
are typically used to convey general information through various r;poken and
written channels to children in schools, and how they are susceptible to
(2) how students' language proficiency, as indilriduals and as groups,
change;
affect acquisition of other knowledge and skills, and vice versa, in a
(3) options available to language specialists in relating the
typical school;
monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual curriculum to language syllabi,
tests, and instructional sequences in language courses; and (4)
in cases
where choice of language media and language subjects has not ben dictated by
educational policy, or is otherwise subject to change, what the most
important considerations are in determining the kind of language to be used
for each type and level of instruction, in both language and general
curriculum.
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LANGUAGE IN SCHOOLS
Edited by
Andrew Gonzalez, FSC
Bonifacio P. Sibayan
Manila
Linguistic Society of the Philippines
Monograph Series No. 41
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FOREWORD
Richard (Dick) B. Noss was born on September 23,
1923 in Sendai, Japan, the son of missionary parents. He
grew up and was educated in the Eastern United States:
B.A. cum laude, English, 1943, Catawba College, Salisbury,
North Carolina; Ph.D., Linguistics, 1954, Yale University.
After receiving his B.A. degree he spent three years in the
U.S. Army Signal Corps as Japanese translator. He was an
instructor (Russian language) at Yale University for three
years (1952-55).
Noss worked ten years as a linguistic scientist in the
Institute,
Department
State,
Foreign
of
Service
Washington, D.C., four years in the Department of Far
Eastern Languages (1955-59), and six year (1961-67) in the
Department of East Asian Languages, where he was head in
1966-67.
As a linguistic scholar in East Asian languages,
especially in the Thai language, he spent twenty-one years
of his professional life as a linguist and language planner in
Southeast Asia, as consultant and adviser and in teaching
and/or research and writing in the following countries:
Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia (Kampuchea,
Khmer Republic), Indonesia, Philippines, Laos, Vietnam,
India, Japan and Burma.
Noss was consultant to the Ford Foundation on
Language Issues in Southeast Asia Project and other
projects. In the summer of 1975, he taught sociolinguistics
and language planning at the Ford Foundation-sponsored
Linguistic Institute held at the Philippine Normal College,
Manila.
Noss had a number of what he called 'non-teaching
experiences', which actually were major contributions to
the area of language planning and teaching. He helped
develop the first version of the Foreign Service Language
Proficiency Test (oral interview) which is now recognized
as a major innovation in language testing.
He helped
establish a number of institutions and practices in
Southeast Asia such as the first national English Language
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Center in Thailand, which became the model for what is
in
now the Chulalongkorn University Language Institute;
Malaysia the country's first Language Unit, now absorbed
into the Curriculum Development Centre; and it was upon
his recommendation that language planning was the
theme of the Regional Language Centre, Singapore (for the
years 1982-86) and as a required academic course
for
students of applied linguistics.
It was while he was a Specialist in Applied
Linguistics and Language Planning and Chairman,
Research and Development Committee, at the Southeast
ASian Ministers Education Organization (SEAMEO)
Regional Language Centre, Singapore, where he spent six
years (1978-84), that Filipino teachers and students in
English language teaching came in contact with Noss and
his wife Elaine.
He wrote a number of books, monographs, articles
and reviews on English, Asian languages, theoretical and
applied linguistics and language planning. The last to be
published before he left Singapore to live in Washington,
D.C. in 1984 was An Overview of Language Issues
in
Southeast Asia 1950-1980 (with Andrew Gonialez, FSC,
Amran Halim and Angkab Palakornkul), Singapore:
Oxford University Press, 1984. He was busy working on
Languages for the Modern World which appears to be a
revised version of an earlier manuscript Language in
Schools when he died of cancer on February 18, 1989.
After Noss passed away, his friends all over the
world wanted to publish a memorial volume to honor him
Instead of a memorial Festschrift, we
posthumously.
offered to edit and publigh his last work, a work he had
finalized at the time of his death. The work is especially
suitable to be a final work as it summarizes his insights and
experiences after a lifetime of work with language in the
schools. His widow Elaine has kindly consented to having
this volume published and provided us with the
photograph and the list of his publications as well as the
two versions of the work.
being offered as part of the
The volume is
monograph series (number 41) of the Linguistic Society of
the Philippines and copies are available upon request at the
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Linguistic Society of the Philippines office at De La Salle
University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines.
We hope that this volume will be read by all
students of language and education to profit from the
insights of a first-rate mind gifted with an ability in
languages, both learning them and teaching them, with
realistic common sense and uncommon insight, which was
the spirit he brought to all his work in the field of language
teaching and the sociology of language.
Andrew Gonzalez, FSC and
Manila, Philippines
Bonifacio P. Sibayan
October 1996
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF RICHARD B. NOSS
Thai reference grammar.
Washington:
1964
Foreign Service Institute.
(with Im Proum)). Cambodian basic course 1.
1966
Washington: FSI
The treatment of */r/ in two modern Khmer
1966
dialects. Studies in Comparative Austroasiatic
Linguistics, Norman H. Zide, ed. The Hague:
Mouton.
Higher Education in
Language policy.
1967
Southeast Asia 3.2. Howard Hayden, ed. Paris:
UNESCO/TAU.
Review of Mary R. Haas, Thia-English
1968
students dictionary. Tokyo: Orient West.
Journal of
Paired adjectives in Cambodian.
1970
the Siam Society 58.1.
Language and politics in Southeast Asia.
1971
Languages Sciences 16.
Review of Anthony et al, Foundations of Thai.
1971
JSS 68.1.
(with
English
David
Eskey).
E.
1972
Writing drills.
nominalizations:
Bangkok:
Longman/Thai Wattana Panich.
The ungrounded transformer.
Language
1972
Sciences 23.
The verb "have": American and British usage.
1972
English Teaching Forum, 10.6.
what can a
English causative constructions:
1972
small sample of informants tell us?
Bulletin
of the English Language Center 11.2.
Phonetics and
Rhythm in
Tai
Thai.
1972
Phonology, Harris and Noss, eds.
Bangkok:
CIEL.
background
Contextual
clues
in
and
1973
Bulletin of the English
communication.
Language Center 3.1.
Review of W.E. Rutherford, Modern English:
1974
A Textbook for Foreign Students. PASAA 4.1.
(Bangkok).
How useful
citation forms
the
in
are
1975
synchronic analysis of Thai phonology?
Studies in Tai Linguistics in Honor of William
Harris and Chamberlain, eds.
J. Gedney,
Bangkok: CIEL.
(with Theodore S. Rodgers). Does English for
1976
special purposes imply a new kind of language
syllabus? Curriculum Development and
Syllabus Design for English Teaching, RELC
Anthology Series 3. Geoffrey H. Wilson, ed.
Singapore: Singapore University Press.
Some Southeast Asian priorities in applied
1979
Applications of Linguistics to
linguistics.
Language Teaching, RELC Anthology Series 6.
Jack C. Richards, ed. Singapore:
Singapore
University Press.
Mistakes, mismatches, and gaps.
RELC
1979
Journal 10.1.
Papers on variation in English.
RELC
1979
Occasional Paper Series no. 9.
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