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StenLasha The article states "She also helped to reform the entire Sri Lankan education system.", which is really a bold statement to make - the reference provided does not back this up either. In fact the only mention is that she has collected some masks from Sri Lanka. Unless you can provide a reliable published source for this statement I will be deleting it. Dan arndt ( talk) 10:05, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
I copy-paste from the article I cited: "Her flat is decorated with choice finds: masks from Sri Lanka, where she was sent by the Asia Foundation to write a report on the teaching of English and ended up helping to reform the entire education system there." [1] The source, therefore, does back up the claim - it uses virtually the same wording - and I would contend that it is a reliable source. StenLasha ( talk) 10:24, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Drobnic ( talk) 19:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC) Regarding Sri Lanka and Carla's work there: I worked with Carla as a consultant, advisor, and friend almost from the outset of her assignment there. Her work was important, but "reform" is the wrong word to describe what she did. Teaching English to the incoming university students had become a hot political topic after a generation of rejection of using English in public institutions. Sri Lanka's government, responding to demands from the upcoming generation for better English skills, instituted a crash course in English as a Foreign Language for all incoming university freshmen. There was also a desire by the universities to upgrade the resources for further English language learning available to the students, especially in the science and technology faculties. Carla organized the crash courses at the main universities (a huge task) and obtained materials to establish resource centers for the English language teachers and their students. I accompanied her to each university in July/August, 1982, and saw first-hand the many obstacles she had overcome to get the language courses up and running. Drobnic ( talk) 19:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC)Karl Drobnic
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StenLasha The article states "She also helped to reform the entire Sri Lankan education system.", which is really a bold statement to make - the reference provided does not back this up either. In fact the only mention is that she has collected some masks from Sri Lanka. Unless you can provide a reliable published source for this statement I will be deleting it. Dan arndt ( talk) 10:05, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
I copy-paste from the article I cited: "Her flat is decorated with choice finds: masks from Sri Lanka, where she was sent by the Asia Foundation to write a report on the teaching of English and ended up helping to reform the entire education system there." [1] The source, therefore, does back up the claim - it uses virtually the same wording - and I would contend that it is a reliable source. StenLasha ( talk) 10:24, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Drobnic ( talk) 19:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC) Regarding Sri Lanka and Carla's work there: I worked with Carla as a consultant, advisor, and friend almost from the outset of her assignment there. Her work was important, but "reform" is the wrong word to describe what she did. Teaching English to the incoming university students had become a hot political topic after a generation of rejection of using English in public institutions. Sri Lanka's government, responding to demands from the upcoming generation for better English skills, instituted a crash course in English as a Foreign Language for all incoming university freshmen. There was also a desire by the universities to upgrade the resources for further English language learning available to the students, especially in the science and technology faculties. Carla organized the crash courses at the main universities (a huge task) and obtained materials to establish resource centers for the English language teachers and their students. I accompanied her to each university in July/August, 1982, and saw first-hand the many obstacles she had overcome to get the language courses up and running. Drobnic ( talk) 19:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC)Karl Drobnic
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