Clear your calendars for out October 4th All Day Mini-Conference. Sunday, 4 Oct 9:30-17:00; Tsukuba Gakuin University (Meeting Room 1 & 2), Tsukuba; Non-members \500. In the morning session: “An Inconvenience Truth about Interlanguage” (Note that the title is not a typo - but reflects the content of the presentation.) Charles Kowalski As every English teacher in Japan knows, Japanese-influenced English, or “interlanguage”, can lead learners to produce sentences that are (a) unintentionally comical, (b) very different from the intended meaning, (c) completely incomprehensible, or (d) all of the above. This presentation will focus on cross-linguistic studies to explain certain often-confused areas, such as the use of possessives in English, and the confusion of abstract nouns and adjectives that gives us “safety drivers”. It will include classroom activities to help clear up the confusion resulting from Japanese influence, and steps learners can take towards the ultimate goal of bei...
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