Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language

Name: Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language | Festschrift for Robert Lado. On the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
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Festschrift for Robert Lado. On the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

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SCIENTIFIC AND HUMANISTIC DIMENSIONS OF LANGUAGE FESTSCHRIFT FOR ROBERT LADO
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABULA GRATULATORIA
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
PUBLICATIONS OF ROBERT LADO
I. LANGUAGE TEACHING
'ERRORS' AND THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Introduction
A Theory of Second Language Learning as a Theory of 'Errors'
Conclusion
Notes
EDUCATED SPOKEN ARABIC: A PROBLEM IN TEACHING ARABIC AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Notes
CASE GRAMMAR APPLIED TO THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH
I The Case Grammar Model
1. Logical structure.
2. Case roles.
3. Case frames.
4. Derivation.
5. Covert Roles.
II. Application to Teaching
Conclusion.
References
THE LADO LEGACY: EMPATHY IN APPLYING LINGUISTICS
(1) Literacy.
(2) Language Planning.
(3) Foreign Language Instruction.
References
THE TEACHER'S ROLE AS ORGANIZER OF CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES: THOUGHTS IN APPRECIATION OF ROBERT LADO
Introduction
I. Basic Teaching Strategies
A. The Homework Assignment
B. Seating
C. Taking Attendance
D. Checking up on ME
E. Textbooks
F. Homework correction
II. Using the Class Textbook
III. Writing the Daily Lesson Plan
A. The Content
B. Some "Musts
IV. Grouping: Why, When, How, etc.
A. Clarifying Students' Roles
B. Setting the Task
C. How Often
V. Ensuring Interaction among Learners
A. Pair Practice
B. "Freer" Interaction
Conclusion
References
LADO'S INFLUENCE IN BRAZIL
Introduction
The humanist-applied linguist
The methodologist
The textbook author
Notes
ON THE USE OF 'VALENCE' IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
References
THE TEACHING OF FRENCH IN INDIA: PAST AND PRESENT
NOTES
TEACHING LANGUAGE FOR COMMUNICATION IN TAIWAN
I. Problems For Chinese Students (in Taiwan) Learning Western Languages
II. Methods Used to Teach Communicative Skills
?II. Strategies And Further Considerations
Notes
PATTERNS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF TEACHER TRAINING
To Train, or not to Train
Elements and Sequence
The Content of Teacher Training
General and Special Training
Practical Assessment
Teaching Experience
Underlying and Inherent Principles
Notes
References
MEMORY AND THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY
Notes
I I . BILINGUALISM
LINGUISTICS AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION
A. Psychology
B. Anthropology
C. Sociology
Contrastive Analysis
Testing
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Notes
References
THE USES OF ADVERSITY ARE SWEET: THE CUBANS AND THE REBIRTH OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Historical Perspective
The Foundations of "Adversity".
The Onset of Adversity.
The Rebirth of Bilingual Education
Organization of the Bilingual Program.
The First "Two-Way" Bilingual Program.
Mandatory One-Way vs. Optional Two-Way Bilingual Programs.
Review of Local Research Studies.
Notes
References
III. LANGUAGE TESTING
IN THE BEGINNING WAS LADO THE EUROPEAN CERTIFICATE PROGRAM: ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE TESTS IN ADULT EDUCATION 1965-1985
The Certificate in English: First Proposals
The Certificate Test: Written Requirements
The Certificate Test: Oral Requirements
Conclusions
References
TESTING, STANDARDS, AND THE CURRICULUM: THROUGH THE BACKDOOR
1. Modern Language Proficiency Testing and the ACTFL Guidelines
2. The Impact of Proficiency Testing on the Curriculum
3. The Proficiency-Oriented Classroom
4. The Proficiency-Oriented Textbook
5. Proficiency and the Learner
Notes
IV. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL
TRANSLATION ACROSS CULTURES: SOME PROBLEMS WITH TERMINOLOGIES
Notes
References
LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR INTER-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: WHAT GOALS FOR WHOM?
1. Introductory remarks
2. Micro and macro level rules
2.1 Two examples of specific empirical studies
3. Some implications
3.1 A dilemma
3.1.1 General assumptions
4. Discourse patterns
4.1 What goals for whom in the teaching of discourse patterns?
5. Contrastive studies, discourse and communication routines
6. Language teaching and cultural understanding
6.1 Research needs
References
COMPARING APOLOGIES ACROSS LANGUAGES
Deviation due to the situation
Deviation due to grammatical and lexical factors
a. Overt errors
b. Non-overt errors
c. Faulty realization of a strategy
Notes
References
CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS, MODISTAE AND CASE GRAMMAR
References
CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS: A LINGUISTIC HYPOTHESIS
1. Contrastive analysis and linguistics
2. Contrastive analysis and applied linguistics
3. Conclusion
Notes
References
ROBERT LADO AND CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS
References
FROM THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS TO CULTURAL SEMIOTICS - SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE 'LANGUAGE-CULTURE PROBLEM'
References
APPLICATION OF CONTRASTIVE PROCEDURES TO GOTHIC
1. Introduction. Linguistics across Cultures,
2. Sound system and writing system
3. Grammatical structures.
4. Vocabulary.
5. Conclusion.
References
TRANSLATION ACROSS LANGUAGES OR ACROSS CULTURES?
Notes
A COMPARISON OF THE PHONEMIC SYSTEMS OF SPANISH AND TAGALOG
I. VOCALIC SYSTEMS
II. CONSONANTAL SYSTEM
2.1. The phonemic definition of Spanish consonants is as follows:
2.2. The phonemic definition of Tagalog consonants is as follows:
2-3. Stop Phonemes
2.4. Fricative Phonemes
2.5. Affricate Phonemes
2.6. Nasal Phonemes
2.7. Lateral Liquid Phonemes
2.8. Trill Liquid Phonemes
2.9. Consonant Clusters
2.10. From the Spanish teaching point of view, the attention of Tagalog speakers must be directed to these subsequent aspects:
III. ACCENT
Notes
LANGUAGE PROCESSES IN CONTRAST: CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS REVISITED
Introduction
The framework
First-language influence
Conclusion
References
V. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND PERFORMANCE
SEVERAL LANGUAGES - ONE COMPETENCE
1. Different guiding principles for the teaching of foreign languages
2. On the positioning in the brain: binary storing - complex intermeshing
3. A matrix for the stratification of the layers (levels, domains)
4. Clear juxtaposition of sub-system in the case of the word phonology (VI) and the spelling system (VII)
5. Equal validity of the rule complexes "patterns and strategies" for all languages learnt
6. Complex interrelation on the level of meanings (III) and on the lexical morphosyntactic level (IV)
LEARNING FROM LEARNERS: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PROCESSES
INVESTIGATION OF TEACHERS' METALINGUISTIC JUDGMENTS
Notes
LINGUISTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AND CONVERSATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Purpose
Subjects
Linguistic and Communicative Competence Measures
Reliability of Tests
Relation of Linguistic Competence to Communicative Competence and Global Ratings
Language Tests and Conversational Performance
Appendix
Notes
THE FIFTH SKILL
1. Anticipating and Reconstituting
2. Saying the Unsaid
3. Reconciling Proposition and Meaning
Conclusion
Notes
VISUAL AND AUDITORY ORIENTATIONS TO LANGUAGE LEARNING
Notes
References
THE FOUR BASIC LANGUAGE SKILLS - MYTH OR REALITY?
0. The relevance of componential analysis of communicative behavior to language teaching
1. Some typologies of basic language skills
1.1 The four-factor typology of behavioristic psycholinguistics
1.2 Pickering's (1982) logical model
1.3 Translating-a fifth skill?
2. A person-centered model as an open system
3. Curricular implementation of the integrated concept of a basic language skill system
References
RELEVANCE OF THE CONCEPT OF LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND ACQUISITION
1. Ability to generate an infinite number of utterances, all of them well-formed and none ill-formed
2. Ability to identify (and choose) dialects
3. Ability to identify and choose registers and styles
4. Ability to paraphrase (and to understand two or more utterances as equivalent)
5. Ability to establish connotative relations
6. Ability to interpret and create metaphors
7· Ability to detect and use slanted language
8. Ability to infer presuppositions
9. Ability to detect and solve ambiguity and vagueness
10. Ability to be deliberately ambiguous or vague
11. Ability to repair and anticipate
12· Ability to optimize the rules of conversational cooperation
13. Ability to optimize the rules of turn assignment in conversations
14. Ability to violate or reformulate semantic, syntactic and phonological rules
15. Ability to shorten messages
16. Ability to establish links with underlying structures
17. Ability to understand and use gestures
18. Ability to form neologisms
Didactic remarks
Notes
References
VI. LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND MEANING
SOME ASPECTS OF REFERENTIAL CLUSTERING AND LEXICAL MEANING
Introduction
1. What linguistics?
2. Focus on lexical meaning
3. Referential clusters and lexical meaning
3.1 Events and referential clusters
3.2 Words and discourse clusters
3.3 Words and events
3.4 A lexical communication model
Notes
References
MEANING AND THE IDIOLECT: THE IDIOSEME
References
ON THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT
Notes
References
LEIBNIZ AS A LINGUI
Notes
Works Cited
THOUGHT WITHOUT LANGUAGE
References
VII. LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY ANALYSIS
THE LANGUAGE OF THE AGE
The accessibility of language change
The varieties of language
The effect on literary language
References
PHONEMICS THIRTY YEARS AFTER
Notes
NOTES ON THE TREATMENT OF SYNTAX IN THE GRAMMATICAL TRADITION
Notes
References
THE RHYTHM OF ENGLISH SENTENCES
THE NATURE OF ENGLISH RHYTHM.
THE DESCRIPTION OF STRESS.
WORDS OF VARIABLE STRESS.
1) Operators like CAN.
2) Pronouns like HE, HIM.
3) Prepositions like TO.
4) Determiners like SOME.
5) Conjunctions like AND
6) Miscellaneous.
References
THE INFLUENCE OF THE LEXICON AND SEMANTIC CONTENT IN THE PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH PHONEMES
Introduction
The Experiment
Subjects, Materials, and Procedures
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
STATIC, DYNAMIC, AND RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVES SUGGESTED IN WORDS AND PHRASES
References
INTONATION AND TOPIC IN PORTUGUESE
References
A LINGUISTIC APPRECIATION OF A POEM BY A. E. HOUSMAN
Notes
References
A COMPARISON OF ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
Dialogue Journal Writing Sample
Oral Language Sample
Oral Language Functions
Similarities of Oral Language and Dialogue Journal Writing Functions
Differences between Oral Language and Dialogue Journal Writing Functions
References
VIII. LEXICAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL STUDIES
LEXICAL PATTERNS IN A TEXT AND INTERPRETATION
Notes
References
NAHUATLISMS IN MEXICAN SPANISH
Notes
A SOCIOSEMIOTIC APPROACH TO LEXICOGRAPHY
Note
References
ON THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM 'PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
1. "Psychology of language" and "Psycholinguistics
Notes
References
SEMANTIC PERIODICITY
Illustration of the text linguistics elements
What are the factors causing deletion in Russian?
What are the general semantic relations between nouns in the genitive case?
TWO OF SKY BLUE COLOR OF CONTAINERS
What are the criteria for selecting the particular preposition?
Preliminary informal rules for translation of three nouns in c2
CONCLUSIONS
References
IX. LANGUAGE POLICY AND LANGUAGE PLANNING
TESOL: THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE
Australia, a changing society
TESOL programs in Australia in recent years
Full circle: the relationship between language teaching and TESOL in Australia
APPENDIX: The administration of education in Australia
SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN CAMEROON TODAY AND TOMORROW
Notes
References
THE SOCIETAL BASIS OF THE INTERGENERATIONAL CONTINUITY OF ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES
Intergenerational Mother Tongue Continuity
Intergenerational Continuity of Minority Mother Tongues
Intergenerational Additional Language Continuity in National Societies
Intergenerational Additional Language Continuity of Religious Classicals
Intergenerational Additional Language Continuity of Religious Classicals among Minorities
Intergenerational Continuity of Heritage Mother Tongues as Additional Languages among Minorities
Summary
Notes
References
LANGUAGE AND DEVELOPMENT
Summary
Choosing Languages of Instruction
New Perspectives on Educational Development
A Nigerian Example
Notes
LEXICOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE PLANNING
Notes
THE FILIPINO PEOPLE AND ENGLISH
The language problem
The language situation today: a sample
Prediction: language situation in the Year 2000
Concluding Statement
Notes
References
A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE PROFESSION: ISSUES AND PRIORITIES
Language proficiency assessment.
Mother tongue literacy and second language learning.
Language attrition
Reactions toward socially stigmatized speakers.
Bilingualism and cognitive development.
Conclusion.
References
THE ROLE OF NEW GUINEA PIDGIN (TOK PISIN) IN THE CHANGING CULTURE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Background information and general remarks
The changing role of languages in Papua New Guinea after World War II
Developments during the 1960s
Developments during the years of self-government and early independence in the 70s
Developments during the last few years
Outlook for the future
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