Written in an accessible and engaging manner, The Digital Humanities Coursebook will be a useful guide for anyone teaching or studying a course in the areas of digital humanities, library and information science, English, or computer science. The book will provide a framework for direct engagement with digital humanities and, as such, should be of interest to others working across the humanities as well. The Digital Humanities Coursebook provides critical frameworks for the application of digital humanities tools and platforms, which have become an integral part of work across a wide range of disciplines. The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is a collaborative research community that welcomes scholars from all disciplines and all levels. We work on projects, programs, and outreach activities aligned with our core belief that humanistic engagement with technology will deepen our understanding of the past, illuminate our present, and create a better future. DHAG is one of many grant programs at the NEH that funds digital humanities projects.

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All EU citizens must be able to read legislation affecting them in the language of their own country. As a co-legislator, the European Parliament also has a duty to ensure that the linguistic quality of all laws it adopts is flawless in all official languages. The European Union has always seen its great diversity of cultures and languages as an asset. Firmly rooted in the European treaties, multilingualism is the reflection of this cultural and linguistic diversity. It also makes the European institutions more accessible and transparent for all citizens of the Union, which is essential for the success of the EU’s democratic system. Schools that aim at multilingualism can be found in different parts of the world and involve different types of languages, different pedagogies and sociolinguistic contexts. This situation creates the need for new approaches that can deal with the diversity of students and the increasing role of languages in the school curriculum.

The important and flourishing field of Digital Humanities offers an exciting opportunity to expand the range of inquiry and invigorate interest in humanistic study among Stanford’s undergraduates. The DH Minor is pioneering in both the content of the instruction—emphasizing the intersection of technology, computational analysis, new djwrisley.com media, and traditional interpretive modes—as well as in the integrated cross-departmental nature of the course of study. Ultimately, the Minor in Digital Humanities aims to provide a comprehensive educational system emphasizing the complementarity and synergy of scientific and computational methods with humanities practices such as interpretation, critical thinking, and aesthetic creation. This description of digital humanities (DH) promotes the “application of digital resources and methods to humanistic inquiry” (Waters). It is the use of “technological tools to do work of the kind that gets done in the humanities, asking the kinds of questions, whether they’re historical or literary,… and using computational tools that do the processing of the data and that assist the researcher in the findings that come out of that work” (Fitzpatrick). Digital Humanities refers to the application of digital tools and methods to the study, analysis, presentation, and preservation of cultural works and ideas in the arts, literature, and humanities.

• For example, Valdés and Figueroa (1994, p. 115) suggest that bilingualism, “rather than being an absolute condition is a relative one.
• Simon van Bellen is senior research advisor at Érudit, the Canadian publishing platform in SSH disseminating around 300 scientific journals, after having completed a PhD in environmental sciences (UQAM, 2011).
• The digital humanities (DH) conference is the largest event of the international DH community and unites scholars from across the globe.
• When several languages are involved, as in third language acquisition, it seems quite unrealistic to expect learners to acquire a native-speaker level of competence with regard to all of the different components.
• Translating the user interface is usually part of the software localization process, which also includes adaptations such as units and date conversion.

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Linking research on the social level to research on the individual level presents a big challenge for future studies of multilingualism. Also combining the emic, the multilingual’s perspective, with the etic, the researcher’s perspective, of multilingualism appears to be the most promising step forward in the development of the field (Todeva and Cenoz, 2009). This results in speakers using terms like courrier noir (literally, mail that is black) in French, instead of the proper word for blackmail in French, chantage. A coordinate model posits that equal time should be spent in separate instruction of the native language and the community language. The native language class, however, focuses on basic literacy while the community language class focuses on listening and speaking skills.

The INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MULTILINGUALISM is an international network of scholars who share an interest in multilingualism. It was founded in 2003 by Jasone Cenoz, Britta Hufeisen and Ulrike Jessner.The association organizes a conference every two years and its members are regularly involved in organizing workshops, seminars and panel discussions at conferences around the world.Anyone interested in multilingualism is welcome to join us. In addition to becoming part of an international network, members receive the International Journal of Multilingualism, a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly. Multilingualism is a challenging field, both because of the complexity stemming from diverse interdisciplinary interests and because of the number of variables involved in multilingualism. But although by now a more realistic view of multilingualism appears to be established as a norm, the monolingual yardstick is still prevalent in most methodologies used in bi- and multilingualism studies. A report released by the UN Broadband Commission revealed that only about 5% of the world’s estimated 7100 languages are represented on the Internet. It also noted that the use of the Latin script remains a challenge for many Internet users, in particular for reading domain names.