Contemplating a Curriculum for Human Languages Literacy, Part 5: Being multilingual has “multi-benefits” This blog entry is the fifth (5th) in a multi-part series describing what a curriculum for human languages literacy might look like. There was a time (at…
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CCHLL, Part 4: Languages change over time – sometimes systematically, sometimes arbitrarily
Contemplating a Curriculum for Human Languages Literacy, Part 4: Languages change over time – sometimes systematically, sometimes arbitrarily This blog entry is the fourth (4th) in a multi-part series describing what a curriculum for human languages literacy might look like.…
CCHLL, Part 3: Languages have specific differences which can be compared and contrasted
Contemplating a Curriculum for Human Languages Literacy, Part 3: Languages have specific differences which can be compared and contrasted This blog entry is the third (3rd) in a multi-part series describing what a curriculum for human languages literacy might look…
Posted in Multilingualism, World Languages Tagged with: language diversity, phonetics, sociolinguistics, syntax, word order
CCHLL, Part 2: A language can be analyzed and studied as science
Contemplating a Curriculum for Human Languages Literacy, Part 2: A language can be analyzed and studied as science This blog entry is the second (2nd) in a multi-part series describing what a curriculum for human languages literacy might look like. Today’s…
Posted in Language Acquisition, Multilingualism Tagged with: language analysis, language learning, learnability
Contemplating a Curriculum for Human Languages Literacy, Part 1: Introduction
This blog entry is the start of a 6 or 7 (or 8?) part series over the next week or two describing what a curriculum for human languages literacy might look like. What do I mean by the term language literacy or…
Languages with the most speakers, native and non-native
The chart in this article might help you decide what foreign language to learn next: agenda.weforum.org/2015/10/which-languages-are-most-widely-spoken/ But I think it is also interesting to work backwards to notice what languages have the most non-native speakers. English clearly has the most,…
Posted in Multilingualism, World Languages
Comprehensible Input vs. Traditional Methods
If you are trying to figure out what language learning methods are most effective, you should check out Comprehensible Input-Based Methods vs. Traditional Methods. This lists a number of studies comparing two approaches to language learning.
The Many Benefits of Being Bilingual
There are so many benefits to being bilingual! And really very few to absolutely zero drawbacks. Check out this article: Know more than one language? Don’t give it up! from The Conversation. Mike
Our First Few Words…
Hey there! We’re just getting started. Similar to infants babbling as they learn to get their voice, we’ll be “dabbling” with blog posts and tweets as we begin to get the information flowing. Mike
