(Thank you Jane for the quote) As St Augustine is comparing L1 and L2 learning I don't see a compelling reason to conclude "Intermental before Intramental" for...
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Fiona
fiotf
May 1, 2005 2:24 pm
Graham, I know what you mean, I presume you're referring to the inflections - declensions........ But I did five years of Latin at school (and I ain't THAT...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 1, 2005 4:43 pm
I have to admit, Fiona and list, that for a time I was very taken by the Chomsky Universal Grammar idea, at least the hypothesis of the black box with...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
May 1, 2005 4:59 pm
... language, Is it? Dr Evil...
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Fiona
fiotf
May 1, 2005 6:17 pm
I thought I'd tell you about the conversation my 8-year-old son and I have just had. It's not earth-shattering or new, but .... The background: I speak to my...
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Jay Schwartz
jschwartz63
May 1, 2005 7:36 pm
Dennis mentioned: "What is universal is human behavior, I guess, at least as regards language". Doc questioned: "Is it?" I say yes. In fact, with respects to...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 1, 2005 8:03 pm
I wrote: "What is universal is human behaviour, I guess, at least as regards language." Dr. Evil wrote: " Is it?" All I meant was that all humans, who are not...
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Jay Schwartz
jschwartz63
May 1, 2005 8:14 pm
Fiona writes about her son: "There's a lot to be said for logic. And for words" When my daughter (bi-lingual: Greek/English) was 5 and she couldn't think of a...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
May 1, 2005 8:59 pm
Communicating maybe, but not necessarily speaking. And, I'm still not sure if this is a "universal behaviour" or just a "universal instinct". Why the...
8532
Julian Bamford
julian12jp
May 2, 2005 3:08 am
... Indeed. On the morning I read your mail, I'd been reading a Japanese comic about someone on his way to visit a fisherman friend who was just back from a...
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Scott Thornbury
scott_thornbury
May 2, 2005 6:12 am
... Which makes me think that the more precise transliteration would be "the sky, in - diamonds, with - Lucy" ? S....
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Russell Kent
russkent321
May 2, 2005 9:38 am
... I would be interested to know which race of human beings, who do not have any impairments that could hamper speech, would not communicate by speaking. Is...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
May 2, 2005 10:15 am
... have any impairments that could hamper speech, would not communicate by speaking. Well deaf people don't speak, they use sign language. You may say they ...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 2, 2005 10:24 am
I take your point, Adrian, about deaf people, but let's put Russ's question this way: 'Are there any known communities of human beings, or have their been any...
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Russell Kent
russkent321
May 2, 2005 10:32 am
I do mean to offend anyone or treat them as inferior. And yes, sign language is a language with which people communicate. However, from a medical standpoint,...
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Jay Schwartz
jschwartz63
May 2, 2005 11:20 am
Re: innate human attributes. Sorry all, but is the question whether speech is an innate human attribute or is language? 1) Parrots and mynah birds can imitate...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 2, 2005 11:43 am
An interesting distinction between instinct and behaviour. In the case of human beings, though, social animals that they are, it must be awfully difficult to...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 2, 2005 11:51 am
Jay, I guess, in answer to your question whether we are talking about speech or language in the innate abilities discussion, I am the one who has conflated the...
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Fiona
fiotf
May 2, 2005 12:11 pm
Re Russ's question, sound is the obvious medium to communicate, because of the traval factor. Birds do it, whales do it, even the educated at Yale do...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 2, 2005 6:34 pm
Jay, Apart from other things you wrote: " I think the need for a list of the 3000 most common mistakes, might outweigh the need for a list of the 3000 most...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 4, 2005 7:22 am
Reality kicks in I'd noticed that S. likes to plan things carefully. He timed his sessions with me to fit in between preparation for an examination and doing a...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 4, 2005 7:51 am
From a Newsweek report on the number of young Americans learning Chinese: "The next challenge: finding enough teachers to meet the growing demand....
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MCJ
omarjohns
May 4, 2005 12:40 pm
... This American pedagogy is a central focus of the NCLRC's (National Capital Language Resource Center) website "The Essentials of Language Teaching"...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 4, 2005 12:52 pm
Thanks, Omar, especially for the URL. The NCLRC document makes interesting reading. Dennis...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
May 4, 2005 3:58 pm
... do not ... communicate by ... Ummmm....humans? Isn't it true that a great deal of our message is conveyed through non-verbal communication? This reminds me...
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Balbis
sandracamill...
May 4, 2005 5:26 pm
I have a students who has difficulty with spelling. What can I do? Any suggestions??? Thank you Adrianna [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Jay Schwartz
jschwartz63
May 4, 2005 5:55 pm
Vaguely related to the "impaired"; theme of these posts. One of my students on a methodology course sent the following poem to me yesterday to use as a reading...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
May 5, 2005 7:51 am
I posted about the Newsweek article, so thought I should forward this interesting comment from Bill Templer on gisig. Dennis ... From: Bill Templer...
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MCJ
omarjohns
May 5, 2005 10:03 am
... Yes. Much of it is accountable to heritage language teaching/learning. However, I see no reason to be dismissive of this. I went to school in Texas, and at...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
May 5, 2005 10:52 am
I was surprised to see Bill Templar's posting described as "transparently racist". I certainly doubt that this was the spirit in which Bill made those remarks....
