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- Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:09 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Taking students from introduction to mastery of a new word
- Replies: 5
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Well, the (possibly rather flawed) discipline of applied linguistics would tend to suggest it won't be all that useful for you to have an "anal" method which focuses on taking students from encountering a particualr word to mastering it in every aspect. That's an unusual way to look at language teac...
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:49 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Code writing in English - can you do it in other languages
- Replies: 4
- Views: 26363
Yes, which rather implies that input should be pretty accurate, and that having lots and lots of free conversation in a class all of the same nationality has severe drawbacks. It doesn't strike me that the code breaking exercise above is very suitable for language learners - after all it is only if ...
- Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:20 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Code writing in English - can you do it in other languages
- Replies: 4
- Views: 26363
This (or at least something similar) is obviously possible in all written languages. Our minds seek what we expect to be there, and select the known item closest to what is actually on the page (not that listening is much different, mind). Exercises like this ought to be part of all linguistics degr...
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:37 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Indentation Nazism
- Replies: 14
- Views: 159420
By saying I am paid to splash red ink, I am only saying that correcting is part of the job and the students expect it. However liberal you may be, you have to splash some. Even if the ink is, in fact, green, or some other less visible and supposedly more righteous shade. Obviously you needn't do eve...
- Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:12 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Indentation Nazism
- Replies: 14
- Views: 159420
Do it "correct" because you may meet a "stickler". You probably will meet one. As for me, I'm easy. This is pretty common advice, I must admit I give it myself in other circumstances, and I think the consequences are pretty profound. For some reason people often ignore the sociolinguistic side of fo...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:26 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Your Welcome!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24425
Though to accept the woodcutter/lorikeet thesis you have to believe that people drop the e as well as the apostrophe, for some reason. I think perhaps they do, because otherwise it looks odd. There are 21 million examples of youre against 610 million for you're. Given the 2/1 ratio numbers I gave ab...
- Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:13 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Your Welcome!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24425
Google has the correct version at about double the incorrect, which is closer than I would have guessed. Then again, many people, after all, always try to be informal on the internet and never fuss about time-consuming punctuation which would only make them look stuffy anyway. (Hmm, and a comma in t...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:46 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Comma use
- Replies: 2
- Views: 18450
The US "rules" appear to run like this. Best ignored.
http://crosswaterfarm.com/commas/2ic.html
"As" is not a FANBOY. Comma between ind.clauses = Shock, horror, etc.
http://crosswaterfarm.com/commas/2ic.html
"As" is not a FANBOY. Comma between ind.clauses = Shock, horror, etc.
- Thu May 27, 2010 11:10 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: possibly=possible
- Replies: 2
- Views: 16282
That is another member of the "bound to happen sometimes" class, to my mind. The language is full of mistakes that happen a lot, and now and again they take off and move on a road to becoming legit. I don't think this one is on that road, or I haven't heard it at least. For example I wrote "I have b...
- Mon May 24, 2010 9:18 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Indentation Nazism
- Replies: 14
- Views: 159420
- Mon May 24, 2010 9:12 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Complex? Simple?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 21375
Well quite, you seem to need this highly questionable FANBOYS stuff in order to make sense of it. As to the complex sentences, someone asked me what "for" meant in a "non-complex" sentence like "I love him, for he has a beautiful soul". And what can you answer apart from that it means "because" - th...
- Fri May 21, 2010 12:58 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Indentation Nazism
- Replies: 14
- Views: 159420
Yes, I was merrily splashing my red ink and I suddenly had a horrible feeling that some people would see it like that. How shameful to be an indentation fogey. There seems to be a surprising lack of internet discussion on the subject. Of course, there will always be plenty of stick-in-the-muds who w...
- Fri May 21, 2010 12:53 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: EXCLUSIVE: Fluffyhamster declared grammar dunce!
- Replies: 43
- Views: 72463
- Tue May 18, 2010 2:49 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Indentation Nazism
- Replies: 14
- Views: 159420
- Tue May 18, 2010 10:00 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Indentation Nazism
- Replies: 14
- Views: 159420
I don't think the uni has a style guide, anyway they haven't told me about it. British people are less wedded to them in general than Americans I think. The main thing would probably be to follow the guides of the department you write for. It is interesting that IELTS doesn't require paragraphs, tha...