Global issues and global values in foreign language education : selection and awareness-raising

The global education trend has recently been gaining in significance in education systems throughout the world. This paper discusses a number of issues regarding the possibility of incorporating a global perspective into foreign language education, and considering also some of the implications of this for language teacher education Firstly, I shall describe my former teaching context – a pre-service foreign language teacher training course at the Belarusian State Pedagogical University in Minsk, Belarus. Then, I shall briefly discuss the concept of global education and its particular relevance to foreign language teaching, focusing on global issues and values as ways of incorporating a global perspective into foreign language education. Next, I shall report on and discuss the findings of my 2001 study of EFL teachers’ attitudes to certain aspects of the incorporation of a global perspective into foreign language education

Cram\'{e}r type large deviations for trimmed L-statistics

In this paper, we propose a new approach to the investigation of asymptotic properties of trimmed $L$-statistics and we apply it to the Cram\'{e}r type large deviation problem. Our results can be compared with ones in Callaert et al.(1982) -- the first and, as far as we know, the single article, where some results on probabilities of large deviations for the trimmed $L$-statistics were obtained, but under some strict and unnatural conditions. Our approach is to approximate the trimmed $L$-statistic by a non-trimmed $L$-statistic (with smooth weight function) based on Winsorized random variables. Using this method, we establish the Cram\'{e}r type large deviation results for the trimmed $L$-statistics under quite mild and natural conditions.Comment: 17 page