Topic outline

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  Introduction to Linguistics and the English Language

  

  • กระดานข่าว Forum
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  The Nature of Human Language

  • Intro to Language File
  • Intro to Ling and Eng Assignment 1

    1. Critically discuss the definition of "LANGUAGE" in your own words

    2. Suppose you taught a cat to heel, sit up, roll over, play dead, stay, jump, and bark on command. Would you be teaching it language? Why or why not?

    3. Describe any other communication system that, like language, consists of arbitrary symbols. Example: traffic signals, in which red means stop and green means go.

    4. Explain the differences between linguistics determinism and relativism, also write some examples

     

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  Brain and Language

  • Brain and Language File
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  Language Acquisition: Mechanisms of Language Acquisition

  • Second Language Acquisition File
  • VDO SLA URL
  • SLA Assignment

    Which of Krashen’s hypothesis are suitable to be implemented or adapted in order to enhance L2 learning? Please illustrate your ideas with examples

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  Language Families

  • Language Families File
  • Language Families URL
  • Indo-European Family File
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  History of English: Old English

  • Old English File
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  History of English: Middle English

  • Middle English File
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  History of English: Modern English

  • Modern English File
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  Language in Society
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  World Englishes & English as an International Language