The acceptable face of linguistics Part Three
My quest to find some linguistics and English teaching sources I can read while I’m chomping on my 100 yen cornflakes and soya milk of a morning without slumping comatose over the keyboard continues… Two blogs in particular have been making me chuckle recently, but I have managed to find some weightier stuff that doesn’t make me snore as well:
First of all, I will mention those two blogs, because I’m feeling a bit guilty on not sorting out my links pages and linking to the many blogs that I have been reading recently. Amongst the 10 or so teaching-based ones I read once a week or so (which I will mention soon I promise), the two that I go to as “a sorbet/ Japanese pickle to clear the palate” at the moment are Chase Me Ladies and an Englishman in Osaka.
Now onto the serious (but not too serious, because you can use the JALT newsletter if the problem is that you can’t sleep at night) stuff. The National Public Radio site has a whole page of language related stuff which I would highly recommend, plus an article and radio interview with Steven Pinker, who has apparently just invented Semantics.
To get a bit more multimedia about it, we have Teacher’s TV, which is aimed at “real teachers” in British state schools but is well worth a watch. You might be wanting to have a look at the English teacher page, or if you are really strapped for time get straight to the meat of the matter at the Language structure page.
Finally, you may as well have a little click on the language page of TED, because I’m going to keep on banging on about it until you give in and give it a try…