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Meetings Without Measure: A Process Of Understanding, Lassie (M.F.) Dudley
Meetings Without Measure: A Process Of Understanding, Lassie (M.F.) Dudley
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The ability to understand others is not a fortunate talent or an inherited trait. There is a recognizable process of understanding which can be taught, learned, or practiced at any moment of the day. A person's ability to understand others is directly related to his ability to see others truthfully. In turn, his ability to see others truthfully is in direct relation to his freedom from his own desires and perceived needs. Self-acceptance, which is self-love, is crucial in attaining freedom from our own perceived needs, and therefore central to the process of understanding.
During the summer of 1984, I …
Second Language Acquisition In The Field: A Personal Experience, Mary Chase Dindorf
Second Language Acquisition In The Field: A Personal Experience, Mary Chase Dindorf
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This report is an examination of the results of my own beginning second language acquisition in the field. For one year I observed myself in the process of acquiring Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia in the respective countries. I was able to document my experiences in a language acquisition diary. It is the data from which this report was written.
I found that my second language acquisition in the field is a complex process determined by need as well as preferred personal strategies, and limited by a saturation monitor.
The success of this acquisition depends primarily upon my needs as …