NDLI: The linguistic divide, autolinguals, and the notion of Education-For-All

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Katada, F.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Sci. & Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan (Katada, F.)
Abstract	Education-For-All (EFA), understood as an 'equal education opportunity for every single person on the globe', is a challenge of this century that cannot be met without advanced information technologies and instructional computing. One question we must address is whether EFA is a force that will advance social welfare and equality on a global scale or institutionalize differences in social class outlook. EFA comes to achieve its principled reality only when the former is the case. This paper clarifies that a possible factor that may affect EFA negatively will be found in linguistic disparity, whose effect is characterized here as the 'linguistic divide'. The paper nonetheless reports that the emergence of automatic portable multilingual mediators (translators and interpreters), which I wish to call 'autolinguals', is forthcoming at an affordable cost in the very near future, and that logically this should overcome the linguistic divide. Given that EFA is a technical reality, the paper then directs its discussion to implications for the future of schooling.
Starting Page	1522
Ending Page	1523
File Size	208489
Page Count	2
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769515096
DOI	10.1109/CIE.2002.1186327
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-12-03
Publisher Place	New Zealand
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer aided instruction Costs Space technology Natural languages Humans Educational technology Power generation economics Educational institutions Computer science education Information technology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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