On March 30, I drove to Athens to attend a talk given by Dr. Stephen Krashen on poverty and education.  I'm mainly familiar with Dr. Krashen as a linguist, and while I have not always agreed with some of his theories about second language acquisition, he is an engaging speaker, and also one of the most prominent figures in the field, so the long ( Read more... )

More class notes:
( Materials for Teaching Vocabulary )

In lieu of an actual post, you get my chapter outline:

( Materials for Developing Reading Skills - Tomlinson Chapter 20 (Masuhara) )

( Krashen's Monitor Model of Second Language Acquisition )

( Would you please be so kind as so click this link? )

( Click here to learn about crazy linguists! )

Lexical Semantics - Meanings of words
3 different ways to look at meaning:

1. Connotation: Referents, associations, images word evokes in your mind.

· Eg, house/home or slim/skinny refer to same thing, but they evoke different thoughts

· Associations are not same as meaning

1. Denotation: Inherent meaning of the word, entity in real world, object word refers ( Read more... )

And here's my Chapter 5 Outline, complete with imaginary auxiliaries, fake complementary clauses, and topographically rearranged questions.

( C-Shells )

( Return of the Invisible Auxiliaries )