Many of the world’s 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural loss, with variable success.
Name of the Activity 1 MATCHING PICTURES TO THE NUMBERS Description Teacher describes one of the pictures shown and ask them to guess the number of pict. Language focus/aims - colours, adjectives, clothes, appearance, present continuous...
There have always been two justifications proposed for the study of learners' errors: the pedagogical justification, namely that a good understanding of the nature of error is necessary before a systematic means of eradicating them could be found, and the theoretical justification, which claims that a study of learners' errors is part of the systematic study of the learners' language which is itself necessary to an understanding of the process of second language acquisition. We need to have such a knowledge if we are to make any well-founded proposals for the development and improvement of the materials and techniques of language teaching.
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address.
This collection of chapters on various aspects of creativity in language learning and teaching arose partly from discussions at the IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) Conference in Harrogate in 2014, in the context of the newly formed C Group (Creativity for Change in Language Education). A majority of the contributors to the volume are, in fact, members of the C Group.
