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LOGGER'S SHEET 

LOGGER: Randall Herron
REEL NUMBER: 1/B of 4
STAGE: CC Plaza
DATE: 7/4
PRESENTOR: Charlie Carp
GROUP NAME: Isolation & Language Forum
REGION/STYLE:

PERFORMER(S)    INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION 
Margaret Yhun - - - Chinatown
Laura Milton Hodges - - - Watauga N.C.
Helen Atwell - - - Arabic Community, Dearborn Mich.



CONTENTS
1. Could you say a bit about phesical size of community, Isolation?
a. Mrs. Atwell (Arabic Community) wish mostly to keep Arabic reading & writing alive
b. Laura Milton Hodges (points out most other community are highly literate contrary to popular belief
c. Margaret Yhun (people can live in China Town all their lives & not speak English because of isolation,
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4. Has language difference caused any Isolation?
a. Mrs. Atwell, after seven students are identified, who can't speak English, the schools set up an English program 
b. Laura Milton Hodges says many of the so called "coloquial," forms of Mountain expressions come from Old English & German of forms.
c. Margaret Yhun, expresses that grammar & high school in her area of Chinatown, N.Y. did not teach A Chinese English program, rather they were lumped into classes with any other non English speaking culture, further complicating the learning of English by her.
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11. All three agree a total stripping away of language & culture differences would not be good as all culture offer some unusual but valuable differences.
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13. All agree even in their own native tounges expressions differ in their new communities greatly from their home countries' expressions, to the point of being almost a different dialect.