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Harold E. Palmer The Principles of Language-Study

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Harold Edward Palmer, usually just Harold E. Palmer (1877–1949), was an English linguist, phonetician and pioneer in the [more]

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Harold E. Palmer The Principles of Language-Study

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Harold Edward Palmer, usually just Harold E. Palmer (1877–1949), was an English linguist, phonetician and pioneer in the field of English language learning and teaching. Especially he dedicated himself to Oral Method. He stayed in Japan for 14 years and reformed its English education. He contributed to the development of the applied linguistics of the 20th century. Palmer was born in London. In 1892-1893, he studied in France. In 1902, he went to Belgium and started teaching English at Berlitz school. In 1903, he established his own school. In 1915, he started teaching at University College London. In 1922, he was invited by Masataro Sawayanagi, Kojiro Matsukata and went to Japan. In Japan, he became 'Linguistic Adviser' to the Japanese Department of Education. In 1923, he established the Institute for Research in English Teaching (IRET), now the Institute for Research in Language Teaching (IRLT), and became the first director. He founded the Institute's Bulletin. In 1935, he was awarded D.Litt. by Tokyo Imperial University. In 1936, he returned to England and became consultant for Longmans, Green. In 1937, he published Thousand-Word English with A. S. Hornby, the main creator of the first Advanced Learner's Dictionary. During World War II he lived in England, and assisted the war effort with his language skills, publishing three booklets about the French language, to assist soldiers preparing for the invasion of Normandy. [more]

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Christan Marsh Teaching Pragmatics in the Classroom: Instruction of Mitigation in Spanish as a Foreign Language

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Foreign Language Study
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Ages 18 and up
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This is a summary and review of an article entitled Teaching Pragmatics in the Classroom: Instruction of Mitigation in Spanish as a Foreign Language by J. César Félix-Brasdefer of Indiana University. The abstract of the article states that it discusses the “effects of explicit instruction on the use of lexical and syntactic mitigators in refusal interactions among intermediate learners of Spanish.” This summary attempts to relay the major details of the study and provide suggestions for practical classroom application of the findings. [more]

Keywords: pragmatics, SLA, language learning

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John laFleur II, Brian Costello Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Creole French & "Cajun" Language Tell Their Own Story

Foreign Language Study
English
12336 Words
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Adapted from a larger work,"Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Colonial French, Creole & Cajun Languages Tell Their Story" reveals Louisiana's remarkable Old World French & metis language traditions which continue to enchant America and scholars in all the world! But, along with the fame Cajunization has brought the State, historical distortion and misinformation fostered by mass-marketing and media conditioning myopia have suppressed and misrepresented Louisiana's historic French languages, cultural history and people as if uniquely Acadian in origin. But, Louisiana's diverse multi-ethnic French languages, cultural traditions and people existed long before the arrival of the Acadians, who themselves were to become its beneficiaries! Author-scholars John laFleur & Brian Costello, native-speakers respectively of Louisiana's Colonial Creole French & her sister tongue of Louisiana Afro-Creole with Dr. Ina Fandrich, provide a non-commercially scripted, first-time study of both the history and ethnological origins of Louisiana's diverse French-speaking peoples of the French Triangle and present the unvarnished results of their investigation, experience along with the evidence of modern and historical scholarship as seen through the franco and creolophonic traditions of Louisiana. A must read for all Louisiana cultural and linguistic afficionados! [more]

Keywords: Foreign language, Cajun/Creole French, Louisiana French linguistics

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Rajesh Lane Cognitive Development in English Language Teaching

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Education
English
15047 Words
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This book is meant for promoting learner autonomy in learning English Language through context. This need-based, educative and evocative study techniques discussed in this book can be practiced by anybody who is interested in familiarizing English Language and its usages. It will definitely be a milestone in the field of English Language Teaching and in the process of promoting the causes of English Language. Key Features - promotes learner autonomy - helps to familiarize usages than structures - enables to induce creative competence - helps to develop cognition [more]

Keywords: Cognitive Development, ELT, EFL, Communicative Competence, Rajeshlane

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William S. Balch Lectures On Language (fiscle part-I)

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Study Of Language Long Considered difficult.--Its Importance.--Errors In Teaching.--Not Understood By Teachers.--Attachment To Old Systems.--Improvement Preferable.--The Subject Important.--Its Advantages.--Principles Laid Down.--Orthography.--Etymology.--Syntax.-- Prosody.

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WALTER J. CLARK INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

WITH SPECIMENS OF ESPERANTO AND GRAMMAR

Language & Literature
English
67790 Words
Ages 18 and up
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An artificial language may be more regular, more perfect, and easier to learn than a natural one.--MAX MÜLLER. The [more]

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DIEGO COLLADO DIEGO COLLADO'S GRAMMAR OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE

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The purpose of this translation of Collado's Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae Linguae of 1632 is to make more readily [more]

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Walter J Clark International Language Past, Present And Future

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In Dealing With The Problem Of The Introduction Of An International Language, We Are Met On The Threshold By Two Main Questions: 1. The Question Of Principle. 2. The Question Of Practice. By The Question Of Principle Is Meant, Is It Desirable To Have A Universal Language? Do We Wish For One? In Short, Is There A Demand? The Question Of Practice Includes The Inquiries, Is Such A Language Possible? Is It Easy? Would Its Introduction Be Fraught With Prohibitive Difficulties? And The Like. It Is Clear That, However Possible Or Easy It May Be To Do A Thing, There Is No Case For Doing It Unless It Is Wanted; Therefore The Question Of Principle Must Be Taken First. In The Case Before Us The Question Of Principle Involves Many Considerations--Aesthetic, Political, Social, Even Religious. These Will Be Glanced At In Their Proper Place; But For Our Present Purpose They Are All Subordinate To The One Great Paramount Consideration--The Economic One. In The World Of Affairs Experience Shows That, Given A Demand Of Any Kind Whatever, As Between An Economical Method Of Supplying That Demand And A Non-Economical Method, In The Long Run The Economical Method Will Surely Prevail. [more]

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R. H. Mathews The Gundungurra Language

Language & Literature
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Robert Hamilton Mathews (1841–1918) was an Australian surveyor and self-taught anthropologist who studied the Aboriginal cultures of Australia, especially those of Victoria, New South Wales and southern Queensland. He was a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales and a corresponding member of the Anthropological Institute of London (later the Royal Anthropological Institute). Mathews had no academic qualifications and received no university backing for his research. Mathews supported himself and his family from investments made during his lucrative career as a licensed surveyor. He was in his early fifties when he began the investigations of Aboriginal society that would dominate the last 25 years of his life. During this period he published 171 works of anthropology running to approximately 2200 pages.[1] Mathews enjoyed friendly relations with Aboriginal communities in many parts of south-east Australia. Marginalia in a book owned by Mathews suggest that Aboriginal people gave him the nickname Birrarak, a term used in the Gippsland region of Victoria to describe persons who communicated with the spirits of the deceased, from whom they learned dances and songs. [more]

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