LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Grammatical Gender, Socalled, Dyslexia

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Clifford Burgess

Document Summary

Communicative language teaching: currently, in canada, esl instruction is informed by the canadian language benchmarks. The benchmarks are task-based, i. e. , they are predicated on the notion that knowing a language means being able to do things with the language. A similar philosophy informs the common european framework of reference for languages or cefr. And it is no small thing to try to set learning standards for almost 40 languages spoken across the. Sometimes this feedback is in the form of negative evidence: correction. At other times milder forms such as recasts are used. Immersion language education: canada was a pioneer in (french) immersion, many countries have learned from the canadian experience. Moreover, the grammatical deficits in even early immersion participants are significant. There are also immersion-like programs for adults, too, in a variety of languages. These are measured in months, rather than years, but can yield significant gains for participants in l2 communicative competence.