Published On: 03-30-2010 11:57 PM
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Blog Tags: the role of input, child s acquisition, elt

Whatever one’s position on the innateness of language,the speech that young children hear is primarily the speech heard in the home,and much of that speech is parental speech or the speech of older siblings.inguists once claimed that most adult speech is basically semigrammatical,that children are exposed to a chaotic sample of language,and only their innate capacities can account for their successful acquistion of language.McNeill,for example,wrote: “The speech of adults from which discovers the locally appropriate manifestation of the linguistic universals is a completely random sample,in no way contrived to instruct the child on grammar” (1966:73).However,Labov’s (1970) studies showed that the presumed ungrammaticality of everyday speech appears to be a myth.



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Published On: 03-30-2010 11:53 PM
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Blog Tags: teaching virtual communication, teaching, virtual communication



Greetings, all. Hope life is treating you well. Just back from another stimulating conference so lots of ideas buzzing around my head. One thing that is particularly occupying my mind, and you’ll be glad that I’ve decided to share this with you today, is the issue of virtual communication. This essentially means email and telephoning, although there are other aspects such as communicating via intranets / extranets, management of shared document databases etc. During the conference I went to, which looked mainly at the challenges facing international teams, there seemed to be a shared assumption that virtual communication was a poor cousin of face-to-face. And the fact that people working in international teams had to communicate virtually became a de facto explanation (or at least one important explanation) of why these teams seemed to underperform regularly.



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