Jeremy Thompson

Tag: Second Language Acquisition

  • Must a person speak a language to understand it?

    This is an important question to ask for instructors of ancient languages who want to move toward communicative approaches to language instruction, and the answer to this question is: no.  This doesn’t necessarily rule out that we should use communication in ancient language instruction (though for this and a number of other reasons I wouldn’t),…

  • The Neurobiology of Learning: Perspectives from Second Language Acquisition (Book Recommendation)

    Since I’ve transitioned in my work to being more interested in lexicography, I haven’t had time to do a significant amount of reading in Second Language Acquisition.  But, I recently picked up The Neurobiology of Learning: Perspectives from Second Language Acquisition.  I would highly recommend it to anyone with the responsibility of teaching languages, whether…