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The Teaching Of Poetry For Language Learning, Susan Jane O' Leary
The Teaching Of Poetry For Language Learning, Susan Jane O' Leary
MA TESOL Collection
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Report On Supplementary Esl Reading Course, David B. Hopkins
Report On Supplementary Esl Reading Course, David B. Hopkins
MA TESOL Collection
The ESL Reading course described in this report was conducted for Latin American scholarship students during the summer of 1973 at the School for International Training. Since it was intended to be a supplement to the regular classes of these students, every effort was made to allow the course direction to develop according to the needs of the participants. Although the original thrust of the program was to focus upon reading attitudes, utilizing the reading interests of the students, a parallel focus on reading skills evolved. I believe that the program achieved some success by offering both the satisfaction of …
The Presuppositions Of Name-Calling In English, Robert S. Haller
The Presuppositions Of Name-Calling In English, Robert S. Haller
Department of English: Faculty Publications
I have offered evidence that name-calling is a linguistic act which correlates the assumption of a status-relation between speaker and addressee with the use of terms marked (+abusive). To call someone a bastard, for.this reason, is not understood as the attempt to categorize him according to some term whose meaning, in the ordinary sense, is a list of lexical features. Rather it is the attempt to categorize him as without status in relation to the speaker himself, in defiance of his expectations, and because he has himself deserved it by himself invoking such a right over the speaker. This understanding …