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CHOMSKY AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Source: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/esol/cpd/module2/docs/chomsky.pdf Noam Chomsky is probably the best known and the most influentiallinguist of the second half of the Twentieth Century. He has made anumber of strong claims about language: in particular, he suggests thatlanguage is an innate faculty – that is to say that we are born with a Read more…

A LOOK AT TRANSLATION

Translation between two languages, for example from English to Spanish, requires a deep knowledge of the destination language. Therefore, we start with a great advantage and it is that we will feel comfortable writing in our native language. Translation in this context (learning) does not look for the creation of Read more…