A CRITIQUE OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF CONSTRUCTIVIST
... Foundations, School of Education, University of Nairobi who through his positive influence and encouragement, assisted me in every aspect of this study. His encouragement gave me the strength to persevere, and his ability to see the ‘big picture’ helped me to stay focused. ...
... Foundations, School of Education, University of Nairobi who through his positive influence and encouragement, assisted me in every aspect of this study. His encouragement gave me the strength to persevere, and his ability to see the ‘big picture’ helped me to stay focused. ...
introduction to contrastive linguistics
... throughout the 50s and 60s - and extend its scope so as to describe the differences, as well as the similarities between two or more linguistic systems, both cross-linguistically and intralinguistically, and both synchronically and diachronically. Thus, on the diachronic level, issues regarding the ...
... throughout the 50s and 60s - and extend its scope so as to describe the differences, as well as the similarities between two or more linguistic systems, both cross-linguistically and intralinguistically, and both synchronically and diachronically. Thus, on the diachronic level, issues regarding the ...
A brief history of Stylistics
... stylistics is more interested in the significance of function that the style fulfills. Moreover, stylistics examines oral and written texts in order to determine crucial characteristic linguistic properties, structures and patterns influencing perception of the texts. Thus, it can be said that this ...
... stylistics is more interested in the significance of function that the style fulfills. Moreover, stylistics examines oral and written texts in order to determine crucial characteristic linguistic properties, structures and patterns influencing perception of the texts. Thus, it can be said that this ...
melanesian pidgin and second language acquisition
... pidgrn English or Portuguese or French, then, the outcome of the same process, through which indigenous participants acquire a simplified gr¿rmmar stripped of marking and perhaps bent towards their native grammars? In his paper in the volume "A language Acquisition Interpretation of Pidginization an ...
... pidgrn English or Portuguese or French, then, the outcome of the same process, through which indigenous participants acquire a simplified gr¿rmmar stripped of marking and perhaps bent towards their native grammars? In his paper in the volume "A language Acquisition Interpretation of Pidginization an ...
Cognitive Development in Infancy
... Key Elements of Piaget’s Theory As we first noted in Chapter 1, Piaget’s theory is based on a stage approach to development. He assumed that all children pass through a series of four universal stages in a fixed order from birth through adolescence: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational ...
... Key Elements of Piaget’s Theory As we first noted in Chapter 1, Piaget’s theory is based on a stage approach to development. He assumed that all children pass through a series of four universal stages in a fixed order from birth through adolescence: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational ...
Vitality entry in Wiley encyclopedia
... interests in its intergroup setting while low vitality groups lack agency and are prone to assimilation. The concept was introduced in 1977 (Giles, Bourhis, and Taylor, 1977) and has evolved through several stages of theoretical development. The theory of ethnolinguistic vitality is an interdiscipli ...
... interests in its intergroup setting while low vitality groups lack agency and are prone to assimilation. The concept was introduced in 1977 (Giles, Bourhis, and Taylor, 1977) and has evolved through several stages of theoretical development. The theory of ethnolinguistic vitality is an interdiscipli ...
COGNITIVE CONTROL AND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION 2 The
... Khanna and Boland counted children’s response times on go trials in the Go/No-Go task as index of inhibition; however, experiments have shown that this variable can more accurately be categorized as a measurement of conflict monitoring, as greater successful Go reaction times relate to greater ERP i ...
... Khanna and Boland counted children’s response times on go trials in the Go/No-Go task as index of inhibition; however, experiments have shown that this variable can more accurately be categorized as a measurement of conflict monitoring, as greater successful Go reaction times relate to greater ERP i ...
chapter two - UM Students` Repository
... Ferguson also states that the L variety is most often used for informal interactions such as with family and friends, and the more grammatically complex H variety is for formal use such as with speakers of other dialects or on public occasions. He goes on to say that the use of H for religious and l ...
... Ferguson also states that the L variety is most often used for informal interactions such as with family and friends, and the more grammatically complex H variety is for formal use such as with speakers of other dialects or on public occasions. He goes on to say that the use of H for religious and l ...
General Pedagogical Guide - Ministère de l`Éducation et de l
... The student will demonstrate an ability to understand oral and written discourse intended to evoke aesthetic appreciation, to compose oral discourse intended to evoke aesthetic appreciation or to inform, and to compose written discourse intended to inform. ...
... The student will demonstrate an ability to understand oral and written discourse intended to evoke aesthetic appreciation, to compose oral discourse intended to evoke aesthetic appreciation or to inform, and to compose written discourse intended to inform. ...
Language Contact and Morphosyntactic - Phil.
... learners’ varieties on the other. It was acquired by both young and adult speakers through contact with German colonists (see Deumert 2003:577 and 2009:374–379). Some of the most important morphosyntactic characteristics of Black Namibian German include the missing case and gender marking of nouns, ...
... learners’ varieties on the other. It was acquired by both young and adult speakers through contact with German colonists (see Deumert 2003:577 and 2009:374–379). Some of the most important morphosyntactic characteristics of Black Namibian German include the missing case and gender marking of nouns, ...
Primary circular reaction
... Infants prepared to pay attention to language Extract general principles of language Language development part of broader process of cognitive development Language is used to express only those meanings the child has already formulated New words learned when they help communicate thoughts and ideas ...
... Infants prepared to pay attention to language Extract general principles of language Language development part of broader process of cognitive development Language is used to express only those meanings the child has already formulated New words learned when they help communicate thoughts and ideas ...
Norms and Sociolinguistic Description1
... structure and they are somewhat ill-equipped to handle variation: actual language use is in most cases impossible to delineate to discrete varieties, styles or registers. Sociological critique (Williams 1992: 66–93), on the other hand, points to the Parsonian structural functionalism as the reason f ...
... structure and they are somewhat ill-equipped to handle variation: actual language use is in most cases impossible to delineate to discrete varieties, styles or registers. Sociological critique (Williams 1992: 66–93), on the other hand, points to the Parsonian structural functionalism as the reason f ...
Cultural evolution of language
... The Antiquity of Language Human languages present a special opportunity for the study of cultural evolution. There are many of them—around 7,000—allowing (in principle) the testing of hypotheses over large populations of sample points, if we compare this to the slim set of data points in lots of arc ...
... The Antiquity of Language Human languages present a special opportunity for the study of cultural evolution. There are many of them—around 7,000—allowing (in principle) the testing of hypotheses over large populations of sample points, if we compare this to the slim set of data points in lots of arc ...
Rereading Romanticism, Rereading Expressivism: Revising "Voice
... language, including the relationship of physical, worldly things to language, accumulated. According to Hans Aarsleff, “language study” in this period “even when called philology,” was not merely a matter of knowing the forms, syntax, phonology, historical relationships, and other aspects of particu ...
... language, including the relationship of physical, worldly things to language, accumulated. According to Hans Aarsleff, “language study” in this period “even when called philology,” was not merely a matter of knowing the forms, syntax, phonology, historical relationships, and other aspects of particu ...
REREADING ROMANTICISM, REREADING EXPRESSIVISM: REVISING “VOICE” THROUGH WORDSWORTH’S PREFACES
... language, including the relationship of physical, worldly things to language, accumulated. According to Hans Aarsleff, “language study” in this period “even when called philology,” was not merely a matter of knowing the forms, syntax, phonology, historical relationships, and other aspects of particu ...
... language, including the relationship of physical, worldly things to language, accumulated. According to Hans Aarsleff, “language study” in this period “even when called philology,” was not merely a matter of knowing the forms, syntax, phonology, historical relationships, and other aspects of particu ...
the combination of critical discourse analysis
... the popularization of the selected norm in grassroots was taken as implementation, which was taken as a government order to follow. The updating of the language variety was also taken as a government response to the changing society. In other words, the interpretation, adjustment, alteration and app ...
... the popularization of the selected norm in grassroots was taken as implementation, which was taken as a government order to follow. The updating of the language variety was also taken as a government response to the changing society. In other words, the interpretation, adjustment, alteration and app ...
The Importance of Motivation in Second Language Acquisition
... Some researchers believe that integrative motivation is essential for successful second language learning. Graham (1984, cited in Chalak & Kassaian 2010) made a distinction between integrative and assimilative motivation. Integrative motivation is defined as the desire to learn L2 to communicate wit ...
... Some researchers believe that integrative motivation is essential for successful second language learning. Graham (1984, cited in Chalak & Kassaian 2010) made a distinction between integrative and assimilative motivation. Integrative motivation is defined as the desire to learn L2 to communicate wit ...
Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity
... Our species displays remarkable linguistic diversity. Although the uneven distribution of this diversity demands explanation, the drivers of these patterns have not been conclusively determined. We address this issue in two steps: First, we review previous empirical studies whose authors have sugges ...
... Our species displays remarkable linguistic diversity. Although the uneven distribution of this diversity demands explanation, the drivers of these patterns have not been conclusively determined. We address this issue in two steps: First, we review previous empirical studies whose authors have sugges ...
Learning Morphology by Itself1 - Mediterranean Morphology Meetings
... of emergence of morphological structure in the learner’s mental lexicon. The approach is aimed at addressing a number of well-known aspects of cognitive development, such as the role of fluency and entrenchment in the ontogenetic development of procedural knowledge (Anderson 1993, Boyland 1996), the ...
... of emergence of morphological structure in the learner’s mental lexicon. The approach is aimed at addressing a number of well-known aspects of cognitive development, such as the role of fluency and entrenchment in the ontogenetic development of procedural knowledge (Anderson 1993, Boyland 1996), the ...
the sociological repudiation of völkerpsychologie
... School strove to bring mathematical rigor to linguistics, with close attention paid to formal questions; however, in the latter part of his career, Shakhmatov became increasingly concerned with psychological and social factors and turned his attention to syntax. For Shakhmatov, psychology studies th ...
... School strove to bring mathematical rigor to linguistics, with close attention paid to formal questions; however, in the latter part of his career, Shakhmatov became increasingly concerned with psychological and social factors and turned his attention to syntax. For Shakhmatov, psychology studies th ...
From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the
... related to general cognitive predispositions, and are thus, at least to some extent, functional. These claims are problematic: the parity hypothesis is partially right – selection for parity is an important element in the construction of any communication system. The problem, of course, is that we k ...
... related to general cognitive predispositions, and are thus, at least to some extent, functional. These claims are problematic: the parity hypothesis is partially right – selection for parity is an important element in the construction of any communication system. The problem, of course, is that we k ...
Life history beyond individualism psycho societal
... international community is becoming Anglophone. In a way it is understandable that adult educators have mostly avoided psychoanalysis - it is a rich and complex discipline in itself, and the intellectual discussions within it are obviously interwoven with professional practices in a quite different ...
... international community is becoming Anglophone. In a way it is understandable that adult educators have mostly avoided psychoanalysis - it is a rich and complex discipline in itself, and the intellectual discussions within it are obviously interwoven with professional practices in a quite different ...
4. Third scenario: Sexual selection and a run
... before the hominids and apes separated. The second major transition occurred when early hominids adapted to life in the Savannah by behaviors such as walking upright and hunting as groups. Thus the general trend towards bigger brains can be understood as a kind of rescue mechanism in situations of e ...
... before the hominids and apes separated. The second major transition occurred when early hominids adapted to life in the Savannah by behaviors such as walking upright and hunting as groups. Thus the general trend towards bigger brains can be understood as a kind of rescue mechanism in situations of e ...