As of June 18th, 11.30 p.m. GMT, these teams had answered the survey. If your team is not represented, please fill in the survey asap. Thanks!
Bar Ilan A
Bar Ilan B
BDU A
BDU B
Belgrade A
Belgrade B
Belgrade C
BGU A
BGU B
Bonaparte A
Bonaparte B
Bonaparte C
Deree A
Deree B
GSU A
GSU B
Haifa A
Haifa B
Helsinki A
HSE A
HSE B
HSoG A
HUni B
HUni C
IDCH A
IDCH B
ISKRAN A
KNTSU A
Koc A
Koc B
Koc C
Leiden A
Leiden B
Ljubljana A
Ljubljana B
Ljubljana C
LMU A
LSE A
Manchester B
METU A
METU B
MGIMO A
MGIMO B
MLU A
MSU A
MSU B
Rijeka A
SOAS B
SSE Riga A
SSE Riga B
Tartu B
Tartu C
Technion A
Tel Aviv B
Tel Aviv C
Tilbury A
Tilbury B
Tilbury C
Ulit A
UNYP A
VU A
Warwick A
Zagreb A
Zagreb B
Welcome!
This page was drawn up by the ESL evaluation committee of Tallinn EUDC 2008, which are Branka Marusic (Zagreb), Giles Robertson (Cambridge) and Jens Fischer (Berlin).
The survey on this page serves to evaluate the language status of competing teams in EUDC 2008.
Teams will either compete for the main break only, or they will be granted ESL (English as a second language) status, making them eligible for the ESL break in addition to the main break.
Only teams that wish to apply for ESL status need to fill out the survey (see below: General remarks).
For recent messages and updated postings, please check below the survey.
ESL Criteria
The criteria used in determining whether you are an ESL team are found in article 24 section 4 of the EUDC Constitution:
(4) The Championships shall include a tournament to decide upon the best team which is ESL. Teams wishing to participate in a Round of the Championships as ESL must preregister as such. The eligibility of such teams shall be at the discretion of the organising committee of that Round of the Championships with a right of appeal to the Council. In deciding upon the eligibilty of an ESL team, the organising committee of the Round and the Council shall have regard to the following criteria:
(a) the language used at home by the team members;
(b) the languages used in teaching at the team's institution;
(c) the national language(s) of the team and its members; and
(d) whether any other linguistic barrier exists to the team members speaking English.
These criteria should be applied to both members of a team requesting ESL status. Criteria exist for guidance only and are intended to help answer the question as to whether the members of a particular team suffer any significant disadvantage in being required to debate in English rather than their first languages of choice.
The committee's interpretation of the ESL criteria
The committee uses the different criteria of article 24 (4) to assess whether or not a speaker suffers a significant disadvantage when using English as the language of debates.
Based in part on the definition adopted by Worlds Council in Bangkok, we would expect speakers to be suffering a significant disadvantage when their native language is not English, and they have
a) Not spoken English as a primary language in their home or social circle, and
b) Not spent more than five years when of school age or above in a country where English is the primary medium of exchange, and
c) Not spent more than five years in an educational institution where English is the effective medium of instruction.
However, we acknowledge that the benefit derived from different experiences changes from person to person; and we therefore expect to have to apply some flexibility in evaluating speakers against these criteria, with the overall aim of maintaining a consistent division across the tournament.
General remarks for filling out the survey
- We will use the survey below to determine whether you "suffer any significant disadvantage in being required to debate in English".
- Only fill out the survey if you wish to apply for ESL status.
- Teams that do not submit the survey until June 20th cannot be considered for the ESL-break.
- Only complete surveys will be considered.
- In order to be eligible for the ESL-break, both speakers need to be determined as ESL.
- If we invite you for an interview, it merely means that we want to find out about your abilities to speak English personally.
- Interviews are scheduled to take place at Hotel Olümpia on June 22nd and the morning of June 23rd.
- The committee's decisions will be posted online.
- Teams that are not satisfied with their ESL evaluation have a right to appeal to the Council.
- Instance of appeal will be the pre-Council, taking place on June 23rd, starting at 10 a.m.
- Teams that arrive after pre-Council can still be interviewed.
- Teams that arrive after pre-Council will not have a chance to appeal to Council if they are dissatisfied with the committee's decision.
Please fill out this survey
19 June 2008
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