scholarly journals Theatre of the Mind: A Project to Animate the Language of Thought and Communication

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-273
Author(s):  
Eric S. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Of Thought ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Second Language Teaching ◽  
Complex Part ◽  
Integrated Theory ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The Mind

Human language is a rich and complex part of human behaviour that can be studied in many ways. The author and his colleagues are developing an application that accepts simple texts as input and presents an animated display of characters acting out the text. It mimics the human visualization of texts, the so-called Theatre of the Mind. In so doing, they need an integrated theory of language; they can test such a theory for consistency and completeness because it is implemented in computable form. In practice, they may have the basis for a useful tool for developing literacy or second-language teaching. By entering expressions, learners can see what the expressions mean and so learn, in a constructive dialogue, some of the language-specific features that they need to master.

BREAKING TRADITION: AN EXPLORATION OF THE HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING.Diane Musumeci. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997. Pp. xiii + 142. $24.07 paper.

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-594
Author(s):  
Joanne Devine
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
Second Language Teaching ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The One

In her engrossing account of the historical relationship between theory and practice in second language teaching, Diane Musumeci observes that in the often contentious discussions about this relationship “the one point on which almost everyone agrees is that scant evidence exists to support any single, unified theory of language learning” (p. 3). In Breaking Tradition: An Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Second Language Teaching, Musumeci convincingly argues that the claim that there has been no consistent theory of second language teaching is not only ahistorical but has also discouraged critical investigation of the ideas of tradition and innovation in the field.

scholarly journals A Theory of Language Acquisition Is Not So Easy

1990 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Klein
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Human Language ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Language Processor ◽  
Major Variation ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The Difference

The first part of this commentary discusses the minimal requirements that any serious theory of language acquisition must meet. It must take into account the particular properties of the human language processor and the (linguistic and nonlinguistic) input, as well as the specific motivation which causes the learner to apply the former to the latter. Neglecting, or even not keeping constant, some of these factors leads to a very distorted picture of the nature of language acquisition. In particular, claims about the difference between first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition that ignore major variation in one of these components go astray.

Big Heads title page

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
vernon thornton
Keyword(s):  
Title Page ◽  
Language Of Thought ◽  
Correct Version ◽  
Evolutionary Context ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

A description of of the mind and its relationship to the brain, set in an evolutionary context. Introduction of a correct version of 'language-of-thought' called 'thinkish'.

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