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dduck
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| How do use Chomsky in one's classroom teaching methods? I do, a little, but does the person who recites Chomsky use his ideas to help his teaching? |
Good question. I can't think how Chomsky relates directly to the classroom. Can anyone offer any insights? Insights for Mexican jumping beans, any takers?
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Wolf
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About Linguistics in China...most of my knowledge is that these courses are more of a history lesson. Who said this, who said that. What year were they born. And memorization....knowing whether the "h" in "hate" is a fricative, grooved, etc. (i forget all those stupid (to me) terms only used for writing papers. It doesn't translate in them being able to speak or teach english well. |
Good point. The course book I was shown wasn't specifically for Applied Linguistics. I was interested, however, to see that China's ideas of langauge teaching theory seem mainly to come from the West.
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| But then I thought my MA program (never finished) had virtually nothing of value, except in writing papers for other academic people to read. Maybe the Dean could recite the major thinkers' philosophies (go Vgotsky!!!) but did he answer the question of how he uses it to teach? |
Academia for academia's sake. This is one reason I didn't continue on in the field of English Lit. I'm not trying to invalidate your experience, Arioch, but I've found what I learned so far to be useful. Programs at diffrent unis can vary massively.... By "the Dean" are you referring to the head of MY department? Yes he did answer the question, actually. He said that he often has to rely on the more "traditional" structural approaches to language because of what the students expect. He also felt that it would be awkward of him - both as Dean and as a Chinese teacher - to conduct classes that were more communicative in nature. Read into that what you will. (I might pick his brain more about this later, as it could be pertainant to one of my future assignments.)
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| How do use Chomsky in one's classroom teaching methods? I do, a little, but does the person who recites Chomsky use his ideas to help his teaching? |
Use Chomsky? The short answer is I, for one, don't. He's a wee bit out of date, isn't he? First Hymes, then then Canale and Swain . . . . The "use" of all that stuff is to understand what little we know of the underlying principles of how langauges are learned - and can be taught. I "use" Chomsky et al to understand how a langauge is learned and therefore how it might be taught effectively. After all, the guys who write the linguistics books are often the guys who write our textbooks - eg. Jack C. Richads. |
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