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a language development handbook

 

"...Language carries within it the history, the culture, the traditions, the very life of a people, the flesh.  Language is people.  We cannot conceive of a people without a language, of a language without a people.  The two are one and the same.  To know one is to know the other."  Sabine Ulibarri

  

“Transfer is the influence resulting from similarities and differences between the target language and any other that has been previously (and perhaps imperfectly) acquired."” T. Odlin

 

“Language transfer is a developmentally healthy and positive phenomenon.  (A high rate) of occurrence of language transfer should be viewed as a sign of the learner’s strong will and urgent need to learn and to communicate in the target language.”  X. Zhang  

 

Mosaic is offered to you by Machiko Romaine (ES Japanese Department) and Karen Rossetto (ESOL)

Technical support provided by:  Derrel, Horace, John and Yuki 

 

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