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Approaches to language.

Publication: Academic Exchange Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Approaches to language.(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
In his Maximes, La Rochefoucauld reminds us that "language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms." Through language, we communicate with our fellow human beings, expressing our emotions, thoughts, and desires. To learn another language involves far more than learning vocabulary or grammatical structures: it is a lengthy and demanding process, by which we acquire a new frame of reference, a sort of lens through which we can see the world and express it. Language learning necessarily involves culture learning. As the medieval emperor Charlemagne put it so well, "to have another language is to possess a second soul." With this in mind, language educators must not be content with...

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