ERIC DIGEST ® EDO-FL-00-01 APRIL 2000 Promoting a Language Proficient Society: What You Can Do KATHLEEN M. MARCOS AND JOY KREEFT PEYTON‚ ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE ON LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS Interest in and support for language study has been strengthened in the United States in recent years by the growing recognition that proficiency in more than one language benefits both individual learners and society. For the individual language learner‚ research has found a positive link between second
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’s How to Do Things with Words (second edition‚ 1975)‚ the major premise of which is that language is as much‚ if not more‚ a mode of action as it is a means of conveying information. As John Searle puts it‚ "All linguistic communication involves linguistic acts. The unit of linguistic communication is not‚ as has generally been supposed‚ the symbol‚ word‚ or sentence‚ or even the token of the symbol‚ word‚ or sentence‚ but rather the production or issuance of the symbol or word or sentence in the
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classroom‚ whether traditional or communicative. What is pragmatics? The study of pragmatics explores the ability of language users to match utterances with contexts in which they are appropriate; in Stalnaker ’s words‚ pragmatics is "the study of linguistic acts and the contexts in which they are performed" (1972‚ p. 383). The teaching of pragmatics aims to facilitate the learners ’ ability to find socially appropriate language for the situations they encounter. Within second language studies and teaching
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STORY BOOK : A FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF LEARNING ENGLISH Agnes Widyaningrum‚ SE‚ M.Pd Abstract Indonesian children are born as bilingual even multilingual children because Indonesia is a rich country having many different cultures. As one of cultural products‚ language can be learnt through various ways‚ one example is by reading children storybook. Language use is always socially and culturally situated. Learning English is a process of tranforming linguistics entities into knowledge
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Linguist : A person who studies linguistics How does linguistics differ from traditional grammar ? 1. Linguistics is descriptive not prescriptive that means ( linguists are interested in what is said not what they think ought to be said ) 2. they describe all aspects of language but don’t prescribe rules of correctness . 3. Linguists regard the spoken language as primary not the written . 4. Linguistics doesn’t force languages into a Latin-based framework ‚ and they are trying
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M. (1977) "Aspects of second language learning in classroom settings." Working Papers on Bilingualism 13: 1-26. Carroll‚ J.B Carroll‚ J. (1973) "Implications of aptitude test research and psycholinguistic theory for foreign language teaching." Linguistics 112: 5-13. Carroll‚ J.B Chomsky‚ N. (1965) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge: MIT Press. Dulay‚ H Gardner‚ R.‚ P. Smythe‚ R. Clement‚ and L. Gliksman (1976) "Second-Language learning: a social-psychological perspective." Canadian Modern
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unconscious thought (anxiety). Brought to light through slips‚ jokes and dreams‚ these little bits of language produce the whole picture. The Signorelli example‚ from The psychopathology of everyday life is a fine example of displacement and linguistics. Travelling through Bosnia‚ Herzegovina; Freud forgets the name of a famous painter; Signorelli. Two other less familiar names come to mind; Botticelli and Boltraffio. By combining different bits and parts of the words Signorelli‚ Botticelli
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Cohesion in English. London: Longman. Hill‚ J. 2000. Revising priorities: From grammatical failure to collocational success. In: M. Lewis. (Eds.)‚ Teaching collocation. Hove: Language Teaching Publications‚ 47-70. Lado‚R. 1957. Linguistics Across Cultures: Applied Linguistics for Language Teachers. Ann Arbor‚ Michigan: University of Michigan. Mackin‚ R. 1978. On collocations: Words shall be known by the company they keep. In: Strevens. (Ed.)‚ In Honour of A. S. Hornby .Oxford: Oxford University Press
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relate to. Exit Strategy Build Buy or Ally Our ultimate goal is to scale the business and build it into a formidable product that can benefit the native culture and next generation. We will do this by leveraging relationships with University Linguistics/Native-American programs. Competitive Landscape Google Translate: Opportunity: Strong name brand Mobile translation Cost effective Weaknesses: Only utilized for short phrases Long response time No customization for natives Rosetta
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learners of Hebrew as a second language. Applied Linguistics‚ 1982‚ 3(1): 29-59. [3] Cohen‚ A. D.‚& Olshtain‚ E. Developing a measure of sociocultural competence: The case of apology. Language Learning‚ 1981‚ 31(1): 113一134. [4] Kasper‚ G. Four Perspectives on L2 Pragmatic Development. Linguistics. 2001‚ 22(4): 502-530. [6] Levinson‚ S.C.‚ Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press‚ 1983. [10] Thomas‚ J. Cross- Cultural Pragmatic Failure. Applied Linguistics‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 2‚ 1983:91- 110. [11] Verschueren
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