Posts Tagged ‘ Literature & Language ’

Where is French really spoken? Mapping Twitter use by language

November 9, 2011
By Rachel
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Map enthusiast Eric Fischer has shared a wonderful language-mapping image via his Flickr stream.  It is a map of Twitter use by language. There is some overlap in color key, so you have to deduce whether Twitter users are using French or Malay, but nonetheless this is a pretty cool visualization of language. If...Read more »

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Reading Texts for Grammar Review: Barthes

August 16, 2010
By Rachel
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One difficult aspect of teaching grammar is the disjointed impression given by a series of grammar lessons: when going over the difference between the gerond and the infinitive, for example, we tend to give students a long series of sample sentences showing when one form is used rather than the other. When talking about...Read more »

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