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Milky Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Teachers as prescriptivists

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0 I haven't met the majority of them.02br
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0So you can't comment then, can you? 050010id5
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0 But I don't think it would be necessary that a teacher, even of ESL/EFL, be prescriptive. Maybe inwardly prescriptive in their own choice of words, as we all are to some extent.02br
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10But I don't think it would be necessary that a teacher, even of ESL/EFL, be prescriptive. Maybe inwardly prescriptive in their own choice of words, as we all are to some extent.12br
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0 Teachers have to prescribe, because their students are not native speakers and don't know what is right and wrong.0-
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0"Prescriptivist" has come to mean "someone who prescribes certain things in a certain way"; it seems to have slightly negative connotations.02br
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00Thus "prescriptivist" is to "someone who prescribes rules in class" as "cow-murderer" is to "meat-eater".02br
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01cite10MrPedantic12cite10"Prescriptivist" has come to mean "someone who prescribes certain things in a certain way"; it seems to have slightly negative connotations.12br
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10Thus "prescriptivist" is to "someone who prescribes rules in class" as "cow-murderer" is to "meat-eater".12br
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0I think a fully descriptivistic course might be feasible, in special circumstances.02br
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00For instance, if you were teaching Latvian to a small group of like-minded descriptivist students of linguistics, you might put before them several alternatives, and say, this is the standard Latvian phrase; this is the southern dialect; this is a low-status urban variant, etc.02
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01cite10MrPedantic12cite10I think a fully descriptivistic course might be feasible, in special circumstances.12br
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10For instance, if you were teaching Latvian to a small group of like-minded descriptivist students of linguistics, you might put before them several alternatives, and say, this is the standard Latvia
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10Much further than "Labdien! Kā jums klājas?"...02br
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