Language and Linguistics

The Relation Between Cognition and Language: An Information-Processing Approach to Interlanguage Phonology Jilani Warsi "Language completely interpenetrates direct experience. For most persons every experience, real or potential, is saturated with verbalism. This perhaps explains why so many nature lovers do not feel that they are truly in touch with nature until they have mastered the names of a great many flowers and trees, as though the primary world of reality were a verbal one, and as though one couldn’t get close to nature unless one first mastered the terminology that somehow magically expresses it. It is this constant interplay between language and experience which removes language from the cold status of such purely and simply symbolic systems as mathematical symbolism or flag signaling."           Edward Sapir Introduction The phenomena of language has intrigued a great number of scholars. The abstract relation between cognition and langua...

Second Language Acquisition and Assessment Electronic Dialogue Journal As a graduate student at Boston University, I took a course in Second Language Acquisition and Assessment with Professor Irujo. One of the course requirements was to write a weekly electronic dialogue journal with a graduate student at Central Missouri State University who was taking the same course with another professor. The two professors were using the same textbooks, so students had a common intellectual experience and could raise and respond to each other's questions. I was paired up with a Swedish student, and we exchanged ideas addressing topics pertinent to second language acquisition over the course of a semester. What follows are our e-mail exchanges for your reference and consideration.   Hi Jilani! My name is Annett Nordek and I’m a Swedish exchange student at Central Missouri State University. My major is education and when I graduate next fall I will be able to teach children age 7 ...