Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Word Formation: Morphology

Hi,

This week we are looking at the word formation processes. Here's your task: Raise you head and eyes while you are walking on the street and look for names of the bussinesses (names of shops, or anything of this sort); see and give us examples of the word formation processes given below.(More than one example is welcome)

Word Coinage:
Compound words:
Acronyms:
Words from names:
Blends:

Good Luck,

tuncer

Monday, May 01, 2006

A Poem

Greetings,

This week we have an activity that is supposed to make our both hemispheres work, like we talked during the class, we are writing a poem on "Language" or "Linguistics", in Turkish or English, choose whichever.

Good Luck,

tuncer

Friday, April 07, 2006

Left Brain Dominance

Hello Everybody,

This week we have a simple question: " What do you think are some of the solutions in changing the left hemisphere dominant school programs, think of particularly foreign language classrooms?" Remember our discussion of the school programs and the characteristics of the left hemisphere.

Check ou these before answering...
http://staff.washington.edu/chudler/lang.html
http://www.med.harvard.edu/publications/On_The_Brain/Volume4/Number4/F95Lang.html
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=col/burns00feb
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/listening-skills

Good luck in your exam,
questions will be similar to these that are on the blogger.

tuncer