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Assocative Learning:: Language of Head or Heart?
Assocative Learning:: Language of Head or Heart?
JASMIN.BANIC@GMAIL.COM
ASSOCATIVE LEARNING:
Language of Head
or Heart?
HOW DO YOU CONDUCT
YOUR LANGUAGE CLASSES?
• Monolingual vs. bilingual?
• What would be your #1 linguistic goal
with the following text?
• Grammar? Semantics? Features of
Romaticism?
HEAD VS. HEART
English German
sing, sang, sung singen, sang, gesungen
Visual Recognition
Encouraging Word Formation
Audio + Video Assignments: TV, YouTube, Street signs & Adds
References
Chomsky, Noam: “Language and Mind”, 1972
Jackendoff, Ray: “Patterns in the Mind”, 1994
Pinker, Steven: “How the Mind Works”, 1997
Pinker, Steven: “Words and Rules – The Ingredients of
Language”, 1999
Pinker, Steven: “The Stuff of Thought – Language as a
Window into Human Nature”, 2007
Erard Michael: “Slips, Stumbles and Verbal Blunders
and What They Mean”, 2007
McWhorter, John: “What Language is (And what it isn’t
and What it Could Be), 2011
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