November 26, 2010

Quote of the day


Learning is more discovering how to align with the world than extracting knowledge from it.

--Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment

November 25, 2010

Reading notes



interactional linguistics
exogenous theory
ontogenesis
"doing being friends"
professional strangers
discursive psychology

(From "A conversation-analytic approach to second language acquisition," by Kasper and Wagner).

extraneural operations
the whole caboodle
007 Principle
linear salience
grounded cognitivism
literariness
fundamental extendedness of human existence

(From "Extended, embodied cognition and second language acquisition," by Atkinson).

November 18, 2010

Dr. Seuss Quotation


"Adults are obsolete children and the Hell with them."