1. Read the passage we started to work on today on page 137 in our lab book. Re-read it until you understand it, looking up any unfamiliar words in a ENGLISH dictionary. DO NOT USE A TRANSLATION DICTIONARY.
2. Write about 5-8 bullets that summarize the key ideas in the passage, using your own words (versus the authors language and phrases). There is NOT one exact list of bullets. All of your bullets should sound different from other students’, though all should reflect just the most important ideas, without extensive details or examples.
3. Using your bullets as a starting point, write a one paragraph summary by joining together the bullets, making them complete sentences, and using transition signals. You can rearrange the order of the bullets (and I encourage you to try that) to make the paragraph uniquely yours, while still being understandable and logical.
4. The original passage is about 230 words. Your summary should be between about 60-100 words and cover what you believe are the most important points.
5. Using the information given at the start of the paragraph, go to Knightcite.com and create a reference entry for the original article.
You will email me:
-the bullets
-the paragraph
-the reference from Knightcite.com
Do not read the all article but you should stop at the fourth paragraph and I will post the article here.
The title of the article is : ” Using a New Language in Africa to Save Dying Ones “
A newspaper article written by Marc Lacey. It appeared on page A3 of the New York Times on November 12,2004.
Do not read the all article but you should stop at the fourth paragraph and I will post the article here.
Swahili speakers wishing to use a “kompyuta” – as computer is rendered in Swahili – have been out of luck when it comes to communicating in their tongue. Computers, no matter how bulky their hard drives or sophisticated their software packages, have not yet mastered Swahili or hundreds of other indigenous African languages.
But that may soon change. Across the continent, linguists are working with experts in information technology to make computers more accessible to Africans who happen not to know English, French or the other major languages that have been programmed into the world’s desktops.
There are economic reasons for the outreach. Microsoft, which is working to incorporate Swahili into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and other popular programs, sees a market for its software among the roughly 100 million Swahili speakers in East Africa. The same goes for Google, which last month launched www.google.co.ke, offering a Kenyan version in Swahili of the popular search engine.
But the campaign to Africanize cyberspace is not all about the bottom line. There are hundreds of languages in Africa – some spoken only by a few dozen elders – and they are dying out at an alarming rate. The continent’s linguists see the computer as one important way of saving them. Unesco estimates that 90 percent of the world’s 6,000 languages are not represented on the Internet, and that one language is disappearing somewhere around the world every two weeks.
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