2017-07-13 11:09:24 -0500 | edited question | We are practicing ‘bleded learning’ in teaching most of the minor courses. I am wondering which teaching instruction is more effective in teaching grammar for blended learning education. We are practicing ‘blended learning’ in teaching most of the minor courses. I am wondering which teaching instruction i |
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2017-03-09 15:49:43 -0500 | edited answer | Corpus of classroom talk What language are you looking for? I found a corpus of Portuguese high school speech, but if you're looking for English, |
2017-03-09 15:49:11 -0500 | answered a question | Corpus of classroom talk What language are you looking for? I found a corpus of Portuguese high school speech (link below); if you're looking for |
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2017-01-24 16:47:15 -0500 | answered a question | Hungarian and Irish - links? There is no link between the two languages genetically. They are from two different language families, Indo-European and Uralic. The words for "woman" do not appear to have any connection.
However, I was not able to find an origin for the Hungarian for "man":
I would say that they are probably not related in any way, but you never know. Let us know if you find anything else about the etymology of this word! Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bean#E... |
2017-01-24 16:11:12 -0500 | answered a question | Can you tell me the origins and/or meaning of the word "achristavest"? Or is it a made-up word? I can't find any references to that word, except for a waterfront development company called Achristavest. Have you heard it in some other context? |
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2017-01-24 15:46:23 -0500 | answered a question | Synonyms that are Identical Except for Prefix I don't know if there's a word for what you're talking about. However, there is a thread on reddit where users made a list of words like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/...iterateandreiteratemeanthesame_thing/ A related term is auto-autonym, or contranym, where a word can mean two different and opposite things: for example, cleave can mean to cling or to separate. Here's a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-an... |
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2017-01-24 15:02:42 -0500 | answered a question | English word stress Good question! What you're seeing is "L1 interference". L1 stands for someone's first language--Italian in your granddaughter's case. When someone learns a second language (L2), their L1 will influence what they learn. Language learning is tricky, and our brains try to learn by using what they already know! English stress tends to fall on the first syllable, while Italian tends toward the penultimate (second to last) syllable. Your granddaughter's knowledge of Italian is influencing how she speaks English. You can read more about this phenomenon here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languag... Hope this helps! |