Online English Tutorial: The Best Way to Learn English Language By John Ellis
Think about best way to learn English. There are several means to learn English language. One can join English language schools, buy English language books, English language learning CDs, or install English language software in their personal computer to learn written and speaking English. Amongst all, one of the best ways to learn English is...
How Learn English: Listen, Laugh, and Stare By English Teacher Fred
Watch children who move to a new country and are surrounded by people speaking a language that they don’t know, what do they do? Look at a small child who turns on a video on TV in a language that they’ve never heard before. What do they do? They listen; they don’t try to speak....
Language [Part 2]
Researches on the animals demonstrated that parrots were capable of articulating words and even responded to human’s speeches, while chimps and other animal, such as dolphins that had been also researched, could not do this. However, no matter how much the animals made progress in showing that they understood ‘language’ and in some cases were...
Language [Part 1]
Only human kind is blessed with ‘language capacity’ ( the Language Acquisition Device or LAD), an essentially unique quality. At least, this is what Noam Avram Chomsky, one of the most leading theoretical linguist in history, has proclaimed. Chomsky’s opinion on the human’s language is as quoted below. When we study language, we are approaching...
IDIOSYNCRATIC DIALECTS AND ERROR ANALYSIS (Part 2- end)
In the case of idiosyncratic dialects, some of the rules required to account for the dialect are not members of the set of rules of any social dialect; they are peculiar to the language of that speaker. All idiosyncratic dialects have this characteristic in common that some of the rules required to account for them...
ERROR ANALYSES OF ADULT LANGUAGE LEARNING
This section deals with the methodology of error analyses, particularly as it is applied to the analysis of the adult learner’s syntax in a second language. Corder presents a model based on a distinction between an idiosyncratic dialect (the learner’s personal, unstable, developing grammar) and a social dialect (the target language which is the dialect...
