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attitude is everything: 04/17/07
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Piers on Lake Atitlan Guatemala. Piers on Lake Atitlan Guatemala. Originally uploaded by treffsie. Mi hijo Trevor estaba en el Cuerpo de Paz (Peace Corps) por dos anos en Guatemala. Tuve la oportunidad de visitarle varias veces desde mi casa en Alemania. Que pais tan lindo! Con gente extraordinaria, con un porcentaje de cerca 40% puros Indiginos. De Antigua a Tikal, de la frontera con Beliz al Lago Atitlan, todo es una mezcla de belleza y pobreza. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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attitude is everything: 06/10/07
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Sunday, June 10, 2007. Is There a Critical Age for Optimally Learning a Language? Why do you think that it is so difficult for researchers to agree on the CPH (Critical Age Hypothesis). Give explicit examples from the readings. In the diversity of studies of language acquision, it appears that all researchers agree that native accent, which is not necessarily a vital measure of competence in a language, is acquired before puberty. Some of the more important studies in examining the CAH are:. Sociological...
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attitude is everything: 06/27/07
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007. Discuss the role of emotional language in your L1 and L2. Which language is emotionally richer. Although Spanish, French and some Japanese are available to me as speech vehicles, since I lived in Germany for so many years, I would like to dwell on emotional expression in that language. Is it because English has such deep Germanic roots that I found no problem in finding an emotional voice in German? As your learners acquire (participate? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I have a dream.
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attitude is everything: 06/22/07
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Friday, June 22, 2007. Application of Language Tools. Okay What is it going to be form-focused or communicative or a combination of both. Back up your thoughts with some of the studies in LS Ch. 6. First, control for variables! Do they understand why and how it benefits them? The answer to the above is- natch- a combination of whatever it takes to touch everyone in class, using visual, auditory, tactile, approaches in talking, listening, reading, and writing. Ready? Concerning the weather, or home life.
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attitude is everything: 06/06/07
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Understanding how the brain and psyche work in language learning. Offer some thoughts about what you see as a relationship between behavioral, nativist, and functional approaches to studying first language acquisition and your own experiences in learning or teaching a second language. The functional approach, tied to Vygotsky and other Russians who did their work during the 30's! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I have a dream. In the Lap of the Muse. Wikipedia for More Info. Major in...
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attitude is everything: 06/13/07
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Is this tree green? Re the Whorfian hypothesis: Are there concepts or ways of saying things in one of the languages that you speak that can not be said or expressed or the meaning changes in another of your languages? Whorf's hypothesis was extensively addressed in the undergrad Linguistics course offered by Dr. Drinka. Does language influence thought and perception, or vice-versa? Under "midori," the translation is given as green, with the example," The green of the trees.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007. What is CAH and what are the differences between it and CLI? How can some of the concepts talked about in the Chpater (Brown ch 9) be used in the classroom, e.g., error analysis, CLI, Stages of learner language development, fossilization. Although vocabulary is mentioned, I do not understand why the authors do not mention the value of ETYMOLOGY in helping students to more quickly amass numbers of words and to help them more accurately guess the meaning of words. I have a dream.
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Juanita's Space: Reflection #4
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Monday, June 11, 2007. Researchers are trying to explain with several examples how the second language acquisition can b e. Affected by the CPH. Their theories are diverse because of the individual characteristics of the learners. For instance, Stengel, Krashen. Explain that there exist factors such as social and affective relationships that may influence the ability to learn languages. The individual characteristics of the language learners such as, personality, identity, motivation, aptitude.
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Learning languages 4 life - Ana's Blog: My learning-styles-online results
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Learning languages 4 life - Ana's Blog. Friday, June 8, 2007. I took the test online and here are the results. The highest score was VERBAL with 18 points, and this wasn't a surprise. At the second place I got a tie between SOLITARY and SOCIAL both with 14 points! Does it mean I'm bi-polar or that a have double personality? No, wait, let's be positive. Let's say that I've become a more "balanced" person with the age. I have to tell my father :-). This was fun and pretty accurate. Learning languages 4 life.
