Language pedagogy Puns

I am looking for reading recommendations for scholarly readings on pedagogies for children learning English as a second language. I am new to the subject and want to do some research.

On the surface, Interlingua and Occidental appear to be very similar languages, and people prefer one or the other for various reasons. Since Occidental's revival however, it seems more new speakers are moving to Occidental than Interlingua, even though Interlingua had the stronger speaker base to begin with.

People who prefer Occidental argue about a number of qualities Occidental has that they feel make it a better language, and they're probably true especially from a subjective perspective, but I doubt it's actually significant enough to make a difference.

So what is the difference? Occidental has Salute, Jonathan, a quite in depth course in Occidental in the same vein as Hans Orberg's Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata. It's a solid method that is particularly suited to the type of auxlang that Occidental is (and would be suited to Interlingua as well). It's also the first course that is recommended if you go to http://www.occidental-lang.com

Interlingua doesn't. Lege Interlingua e apprende su structura is sometimes mentioned with LLPSI and S,J, but it's not remotely the same thing. If there's a course for Interlingua that is actually like LLPSI, I'm not aware of it (if you are, please share).

Occidental is easier to learn because it has a better course teaching you how to use it. Gode probably didn't care about that when he was developing Interlingua, and nobody who got on to the movement after seemed to be interested in making a seriously good course to teach it. They would just rely on the ease of the language for people to learn it. And for the most part that is characteristic of auxlang projects in general. In fact Occidental is the only auxlang I'm aware of where anyone has bothered to make a good course to teach it. Maybe Amikaro for Esperanto does it as well, but the Esperantists are silent on it which leads me to worry that it's not really in the same class, and that's why they're mainly talking about the new Complete Teach Yourself Esperanto.

Anyone who is thinking about creating a new auxlang, should really keep this in mind. Don't expect the supposed ease of learning the language to carry it. Figure out how to teach any language really well, and start with a high quality course. Then if that's the only course available to learn the language, it will be much easier to learn because everyone is learning with a good method (contrast this with Latin which has a reputation for being terribly difficult, likely because it is sti

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There is no shortage of strongly held opinions on how Latin should be taught or learned. In a series of posts, I intend to give my own take on this subject. My method in these posts is to proceed from premises that are (or should be!) commonly agreed upon, drawing out what I believe are the pedagogical implications. In this first installment, I want to establish and explore the idea that Latin, as a language, should be viewed as a skill set, that is, as a series of performative abilities.

(A little about me, if you care. As a Latinist, I am mostly self-taught, but I also took a few university courses to round out my education. I have tutored Latin and moderated informal Latin reading circles, and I have professionally taught Ancient Greek. In my career as an early modern historian, I read Latin almost daily.)

POINT 1: SKILLS ARE MEASURABLE, TESTABLE PERFORMATIVE CAPACITIES

A skill is the ability to perform a narrowly defined task. A skill set is a cluster of skills that cooperate in the performance of a more broadly defined task. Like all categorizations, this is somewhat arbitrary; however, it's useful for us to think this way in the context of improvement. If someone wants to play basketball better (a broadly defined performative task), that person will need to identify and improve one or several more narrowly defined performative tasks (shooting, defense, ball control).

As performances, skills can be empirically tested and measured according to various criteria. To test one's ability to comprehend written Latin, one can simply read a page of Latin. One sensible criterion is accuracy: how much was properly understood? Another is facility or efficiency: how quickly was the task accomplished? These criteria might themselves be keyed to the criterion of difficulty: how complex or obscure does the passage have to be before accuracy or efficiency breaks down?

Learning Latin, then, is simply improving one's ability to meet performative demands.

POINT 2: THE END DETERMINES THE PERFORMATIVE DEMANDS DETERMINES THE TRAINING

People develop skills in order to accomplish certain objectives. Because people want to make or hear music, engage in or watch sports, create or consume computer programs, and solve abstract problems, society has established protocols for training violinists, basketball players, programmers, and mathematicians. The goal to be accomplished determines what kind of performance is required, which in turn determines what kind of tra

Has anyone taken the World Language Pedagogy Praxis? Can you recommend a study guide or concepts to review?

I know that the US often sticks ESOL education, SLA, and language teaching under Applied Linguistics, but I also thought that it was a bit more than that. For example, I thought language policy, discourse analysis, and translation studies were all under applied linguistics too. It's not like I am uninterested in ESOL and SLA, but it's a little disheartening to look at fifteen to twenty applied linguistics programs all over the United States and see mostly professors who only have ESOL publications. Often, the course offerings for even the best applied linguistics programs are just language education classes with a smattering of theoretical linguistics thrown in.

Is it practical to say that Applied Linguistics programs are primarily education-based in the United States? Do you know of any applied linguistics programs that place emphasis on things outside of education?

Hey gang, any language pedagogy / disability specialists out there? I've been wondering about two things regarding language pedagogy and dyslexia:

1. Do dyslexic learners of an L2 benefit from more auditory-based instruction? And are there specific programs or methods that take advantage of this better than others?
2. Do dyslexic students learn signed languages better than spoken languages?

Thoughts? And, y'know, evidence is appreciated.

Hello all,

I'm wondering whether anyone has recommendations for a Romance grammar that is more geared toward learning to speak Romance languages than toward etymology/discussions of vulgar Latin, etc.? I'm looking for something that would help a speaker of one Romance language understand systematic phonosyntactic, etc. differences between the languages, with the goal of learning other Romance languages more easily.

I have heard good things about Antonio Russo's The English-Italian Lexical Converter for English speakers learning Italian, but would love to find something more comprehensive.

Thank you very much in advance!

I am currently studying vocal pedagogy at the university of lucerne (in switzerland). I wont be able to answer all of the questions, if there are too many, but I will answer as many as I can. If anyone notices any mistakes, I appreciate being corrected!

Please add sufficient live clips, if asking about a specific vocalist and I wont be making any lengthy vocal analysis for any vocalists here, unless Im very familar with them ! (I mostly know SM vocalists well enough for any thoughts about their overall consistency)

English is not my first language, so I am grateful for any corrections regarding grammar, punctuation, etc

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2. #2 Editor-in-Chief of school's newspaper
3. #3 Secretary (11), President (12) of School's National Honor Society
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5. #5 Top 10% Student Researcher: wrote paper about how Hagia Sophia's renovations from the 14th-21st century reflect developing sociopolitical circumstances.
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7. #7 Student Photographer exhibited @ a gallery: earning license to legally work as photographer in my country
8. #8 Research Assistant @ a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving 20th century Jewery
9. #9 Displayed Artist @ TedX
10. #10 I helped create a film and campaign to support the Navajo Nation, who have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. We helped raise 10,000 euros.

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ninja edit: holy hell this is long. Sorry. For the short version, please skip to the last 5 paragraphs. It starts with "And in general"

So I've had multiple experiences that make me think the "parts" view of the human psyche has substantial validity. But I'm having trouble engaging with any of them.

I read (listened to) Jay Earley's Self Therapy book about a year ago and engaged with the exercises with no real success. And I started working with an IFS therapist in September. And I've also read (listened to) the first hour or so of Schwarz's "No Bad Parts" and tried to engage with those exercises as well.

What I experience when I try to look for or listen for parts is that my mind just wanders. On one occasion I took a very small dose of a halucinogen and was able to somewhat perceive a distractor part, whose job was to obscure exactly the things that I am looking for. I haven't been able to repeat that. I suspect I surprised that part, and that it has since adapted, because what good is a protector if it isn't effectively protecting? I've observed this with multiple other trailheads- some recollection from my life that triggers some emotion will only work once or twice, as if a protector is following me around and covering over any trailheads.

The therapist is also not very helpful, though that's improving slightly lately. Initially she didn't really know where to go when I couldn't immediately identify a part. My thought was that if I could do that all by myself, why the hell would I need a therapist?

Since that time we've floundered around doing various other things that all fell, on the spectrum from helpful to completely irrelevant, closer to the mostly irrelevant end. But more recently, she helped me identify that the "me" that I normally am engaging from is probably an intellectualizer part, and I think that part has been driving for most of my life. And in general it does a good job. But I suspect that almost all skills I have learned and relationships I've engaged in have been learned by / engaged in by this part.

And in general, I'm mostly unaware of my emotional experience. Like I can sense anger (I'm good at anger), and more recently, I've been able to perceive sadness a bit, but most of the time that's mostly just bodily sensations that look like sadness if I were to draw them on a cartoon figure / face. But I have basically no access to the rest of the emotions. For those familiar with the term, I'm highly alexithymic (see r/alexit

This is your 18-minute Monday report in 4627 words.

##public discussions after Pashinyan's interview in which he presented details from 2011-2016 Karabakh negotiation process

In case you missed the Q&A: https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/rnvx18/dec242021_pashinyan_reveals_details_from_karabakh/

Interview TLDR: in January 2016 the OSCE pressured Armenia to give up on the idea of interim status for Artsakh, but president Serj rejected it and "did not show enough diplomatic flexibility" to de-escalate. Azerbaijan attacked in April. OSCE made a similar offer in July, but Serj rejected it again.

Then came the "catastrophic" and much-worse document in August, in which OSCE decided that not only will Artsakh not get an interim status, but the UN Security Council would handle the issue.

The post-August 2016 document is highly unfavorable for Armenia because the UN Security Council had already officially recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, and letting them handle the process would mean one thing. Pashinyan said that he made unsuccessful attempts to change these unfavorable terms after taking office in 2018, and Azerbaijan decided to attack in 2020. //

 

Artsakh president & parliament respond: touching upon the recent statements by Premier Pashinyan and concerns about it, I would like to highlight some main provisions:

Artsakh has a right to self-determination.

Artsakh authorities' opinion must be taken into account before expressing a position.

Artsakh's international recognition is the goal.

Artsakh won't accept any status within Azerbaijan.

Artsakh won't accept the return of ethnic Azeris because of the Armenophobic rhetoric and policies by the Azeri government.

Azerbaijan should return Hadrut and Shushi regions.

Russian peacekeepers should stay indefinitely. //

 

In recent months, the Pashinyan administration has repeatedly spoken in favor of Artsakh's right to self-determination 1, 2, 3. One of Pashinyan's main concerns was relating to the return of ethnic Azeris to Nagorno-Karabakh (not just adjacent territories).

Pashinyan said the negotiation papers on the table didn't describe the referendum

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I'm guessing like how there are English language majors in America, there must be Japanese language majors in Japan. I'm thinking of trying out Japanese university after language school (god only knows when Japan will open its borders for this though), and I wanna do something that enhances my knowledge of the Japanese language. Also possibly some kind of pedagogy and literature. I'm kinda already set in life, so it doesn't mater if it leads me to a job or not. I just personally wanna try it. My japanese is only high N4 low N3 level so I can't really research this in Japanese. What do you guys recommend? And if anyone has any experience with japanese universities and studies like this, please do share experiences and whatnot.

This is in response to the rise in people saying that they are fine - or even excited - that classes might be going online. While you have every right to your opinion, online school is NOT for everyone and does NOT work for every major. I want to share my experience as a foreign language major.

When classes went online for the first time, I was still doing lower division courses. The adjustment was difficult at first, but the nature of the material made it somewhat easy to transition to online. So I can understand where a lot of people are coming from when they say that online isn't that bad. I believe a lot of these people have either only been taking lower division courses that are not product/performance related, or they have upper division courses that already have a lot of basis online to begin with.

The next year of online, I started doing my lower division language courses and upper divisions. Since I am continuing with the languages, I can sincerely say that online learning did NOT prepare me for in person language classes.

Now to clarify, I’m taking two ancient languages (Latin and Ancient Greek) primarily based on reading rather than speaking. Before coming to UCLA, I had absolutely no experience with these languages. The Language classes are split into three levels - elementary (3 quarters), intermediate (2 quarters 1LD 1UD) and advanced (however many quarters you have left). For all of my elementary courses, they were entirely online. Open book open note exams and quizzes. Memorization was not important. This has been an egregious obstacle to overcomes now that I’ve taken intermediate courses in person and will soon progress to the advanced courses. The professors say so, I’m saying so. I plan on going to grad school, and these languages are the entire basis of my degree. There is absolutely no real quality or value to my learning in taking these language courses online. There is no real way to create module based learning, because since quarter 1 up until quarter 8 and beyond, everything is cumulative. The holes in my learning are showing and destroying my confidence. I cannot compete with the people who have in person experience.

I feel like the people who are excited to go online are so because they don’t face the same problems. They enjoy the GPA boost from open book exams because they won't have to touch that material again for quite some time. I think anyone who has had to take a series course partly online and partly in person ca

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat