Here is a list of things that Council discussed yesterday - I'll update this list with more information later:
- The Koc 2010 bid for Worlds was ratified. CA Can Okar had announced a few days back that he chose the following as DCAs: Will Jones (Oxford) for Europe, Julia Bowes (Sydney) for Oceania, Suthen Tate Thomas(MMU) for Asia and Josh Bone (Yale) for America.
- Botswana was accepted to host Worlds 2011 on what was their third consecutive bid.
- ESL/EFL: Council discussed the issue and whether "the right teams" had been put into the respective categories. Two results were that in another renaming attempt, "ENL" (English as a native language) will from now on be called "EPL" (English as a proficient language), to indicate that not only natural speakers can fall into this category. Also, Council decided to give the ESL/EFL committee some discretion in determining critical cases, and thus loosening up the very strict criteria that had been decided upon at Assumption Worlds.
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How will article 301 affect Worlds in Turkey?
What do you exactly mean by that?
I am a bit sorry to hear about the EPL-definition. What both native speakers and less proficient second language speakers fail to understand, is that there is a linguistic variant of the "uncanny valley". This leads native judges to judge proficient but non-native speakers to judge them more harshly on matters of specific word choice and sentence construction. The (mainly unconscious) reasoning is as follows: "they seem proficient enough to know the difference between X' and X" - so they must have chosen X' on purpose. But in this specific debate X" would have been the smarter choice, therefore they deserve to be marked down on their choice for X' ". Thus, what is actually a minor language mistake, gets attributed as a debate mistake.
Contrast this with a clearly less proficient speaker, who might confuse X with Y - a native judge will realize that the speaker can not possibly mean Y, and thus, "reads" X where the speakers says Y - and thus a more major language mistake is ensured to remain just that.
Also, I'd like to know how exactly the difference is determined between an ESL and EPL speaker. My fear is that most of the Dutch, German and Israeli teams would be considered EPL, and thus not ESL. I hardly think that is fair.
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