“The Isle of Slaves” (Empathy 1)
Two masters and their servants are shipwrecked on an island. Here to the stranded company comes Governor Trivelin and asks one of them: “What’s your name”…
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Creativity and social media
“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains”… OMG! when I saw this sentence on a magazine, I had to rub my eyes! (by the way, “it” stands for Facebook…). It was Sean Parker saying those words in an interview at Axios last November 2017….
Creativity and Language Learning
“Creativity is not a capacity of special people but a special capacity of all people. It shows speakers as language makers and not simply as language users”!
I find this conclusion absolutely fantastic!
It comes at the end of the book titled: “Language and Creativity: the Art of Common Talk” written by Ron Carter -professor at Nottingham University- and published by Routeledge (second edition, 2016).
Two fundamental points of this statement deserve to be highlighted: 1) “Creativity is a special capacity of all people” and 2) “Creativity shows speakers as language makers not simply language users”
Do I need creativity to learn English?
Do I need creativity to learn English? Good question, easy answer: no, you don’t need to be creative to learn English. You need creativity for your life.
It is believed that creativity belongs to artists, poets, musicians. And ladies!
The colours on the palette before the painter, the naked stone before the sculptor, the musical notes in the ear of a composer could
The Silent Language
“It is dead night… The stars are shining in the sky tonight, the snow lies white all around, the frost is cruel… Here is a lonely old farm where everyone is sleeping. All but one… The Tomten is awake. He lives in a…
Understanding leads to love
“… Do you understand?” How many times do we hear this question? or do we say it? A teacher to a pupil, a parent to a child, a husband to his wife. What do we mean by asking this question? May I use two examples. First scene. A foreign student comes to a host-family. It is
How much English can I learn in a short time?
“It depends who is doing what”, I should say. Timothy Doner is a young man now: 18-years-old, he lives in New York and mastered himself 23 languages, each one in just a few weeks. Cardinal Mezzofanti -who lived two hundred years ago in Italy- learnt and spoke fluently 38 languages without travelling out of Italy.
Do different languages confer different personalities?
Did you know that your personality may be different when you speak another language? That your worldview may change if you are multilingual? That the language may shape your thought? In an article published by The Economist about the advantages of bilingualism, it is mentioned that bilinguals are not only capable of a “better performance at tasks involving “executive function” (which involve the brain’s
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Story of a pilot project
activities were selected in relation to their educational significance and also to the available Human Resources in the local community
Our Story (continue)
English tuition had initially a small space in the schedule and was almost focused on the understanding of daily situations and on functional routines to support students in their social interactions and general communications. It became immediately clear that their experience abroad had a much deeper impact than the original purpose of learning some more
