Language Log has an entry about the McGurk effect, which links to this video. It's startling to discover that closing your eyes can change what you hear. I keep going back to check that it really happens.
It does. Check it out.
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I have noticed that I get a lot of hits from people searching "present simple" and "ESL," and assume that this is language teachers looking for ideas or lesson plans. The following links are good places to start.
ESL Lounge Here you will find lesson plans organised by level. A fantastically useful site for busy teachers, and easy to navigate.
British Council Here lesson plans are organized by topic. There are more teaching activities in the 'downloads' section.
The Internet TESL Journal
They have not updated this page for a while, but there is still a lot you might find useful.
Humanising Language Teaching
This is an online journal, good for ideas, inspiration, and especially good towards the end of semester when you're feeling not quite human.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Almost too much to wade through, but a very useful resource. Lots of links to other sources.
Karin's ESL PartyLand
This is a page specifically dealing with teaching simple present and present progressive. I have not tried any of these, but there are a lot of ideas here, and they look good. At the very least you will be inspired.
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2 comments:
After reading "The Language Instinct" you should also read "Educating Eve", by whassisname.
(late for work, will check later)
"The Language Instinct" is a wonderful book. I loved it. I then read "Educating Eve" by Geoffrey Sampson, and enjoyed it just as much (except the last chapter, which goes off the rails) - and got the other side of the argument.
One of the things that makes Sampson so entertaining to read is that he is so extremely irate. Pinker's ideas have become fantastically popular because Pinker is such a good writer, and so entertaining and inspiring, and it means that the layperson isn't hearing what else is going on in the non-nativist academic world - and nor do you get to know that the nativist ideas have been more or less put aside as irrelevant, or absorbed in other theories, everywhere except in the US. This annoys Sampson no end, so you get carried along on a wave of indignation - and drowned in the last chapter, but the rest is a must-read. He is very persuasive, and a good writer if you ignore that last chapter.
There's an interesting discussion of the issues here:
http://www.zompist.com/langorg.htm
You can also find a bunch of stuff on the Linguist List. Do a search on Pinker and Sampson, and wear a flame-proof suit!
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