LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE

Understanding a language may lead to formalist and functionalist views of language. One can’t actually separate form from function in the study of any language. They may be like the two sides of a single coin.

Linguists use several different approaches in order to understand or construe language. Those approaches, as Schiffrin (1994) explains, are Speech Act Theory, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication, Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis and Variation Analysis. Read the rest of this entry »

Students taking the mid exam on CREATIVE WRITING are supposed to write a photo-based composition. Your composition must be based on the following photo:

PLEASE HAND IN YOUR COMPLETE COMPOSITION AS SCHEDULED.

Students taking the mid exam on DISCOURSE ANALYSIS are supposed to conduct the following two small analyses.

1.      Presented below is an interaction. Each utterance in the interaction can be interpreted as doing more than one speech act. Identify the speech acts that are being performed in the target utterances and how sequences of speech acts occur. Read the rest of this entry »

Students joining Translation 1 are supposed to work on the following translation quiz. They must work in groups of three. Their translation must be handed in to the staff of COLASULA at five in the afternoon, Monday, October 25th 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Students joining creative writing class (Tuesday and Wednesday classes) are supposed to read this flash fiction or flash story and visit a web address (such as: http://www.flashfictiononline.com/ and CLICK the LINK below this writing) for further readings of flash stories or flash fictions. Read the rest of this entry »

Students joining Translation 1 (Monday at three fifteen) are required to work together in groups of three for their translation activity. The translation must be handed in hand writing after the class is over.

JUST TRANSLATE THE UNDERLINED PARTS (which are numbered) of the sentences into standard bahasa Indonesia. Read the rest of this entry »

This writing displays a pdf file which discusses Speech Acts Theory as one of the six approaches to discourse analysis contained in power point.

The discussion touches what speech act is, taxonomy of speech act, identifying speech act, segments of speech act and data for analysis.

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This writing provides a pdf file containing a general discussion on approaches to discourse analysis contained in power point.

The discussion only touches the general view on approaches to discourse analysis and the instruments which could be used to explain the phenomena in language use as provided in some data.

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This is the pdf version of Introduction, DA Overview and Definition of DA presented in power point. Syllabus, Learning Preparation, Broad Teaching Guideline and Course Contract are communicated at the start, then some sub discussions under Discourse Analysis are displayed here. Read the rest of this entry »

Chapter V
Approaches to Language Teaching
D. Comments on Achievement Testing
In this section, we will consider the implications of second language acquisition theory on
testing. I will begin with a very short review of what we normally consider to be relevant in
selecting tests for second language achievement, and the kinds of test options we chose from. As
was the case in describing language teaching systems earlier, this is not done in an effort to
supply new information, but to establish a common set of assumptions; I will assume, therefore,
some familiarity with the standard literature in second language testing (e.g. Harris, 1969;
Valette, 1977; Oller, 1979). I will then focus on one major consideration, what Oller (1979)
terms the “instructional value” of a test, and suggest that if we take this property of tests
seriously, second language acquisition theory severely limits our options in achievement test
selection.

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