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--- Forwarded Message from "Warren B. Roby" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 15:49:37 -0700 >From: "Warren B. Roby" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >Organization: Washington State University >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Food for thought Dear LLTIers, I trust we have all survived the end of the academic term and the holidays and are now gearing up for the start of classes. So we go from one source of stress to another. In order to get some relief, I have taken to reading the "Unabridged Devil's Dictionary of Language Teaching" which appears as an appendix in the excellent book by Tom McArthur, Living Words: Language, Lexicography, and the Knowledge Revolution. University of Exeter Press, 1998. I have selected some entries related to technology and some of my favorites. Audiolingualism -- A revolution in language teaching that encourages students to be audio and teachers to be lingual. Audiovisual aids -- Those materials and gadgets in a classroom designed by somebody called Murphy. Computer assisted language learning -- A procedure by means of which students can use teachers as backup systems in the event of a power failure. Direct Method -- The late nineteenth-century revolution in language teaching that enabled students to converse fluently in languages they didn't know. Eclecticism -- What you believe in when you've got a class to teach in five minutes and haven't prepared anything according to this year's panacea. Feedback -- The return to the input of part of the output of a machine, system, or language teacher, so as to produce electrical changes that improve performance. Gender -- A grammatical category, regardless of sex; a sexual category, regardless of grammar. Interaction -- The same thing as intercourse before intercourse became something else. Interactive approach -- That view of language teaching and learning which says everything will be fine when teachers and students get their acts together. Language laboratory -- A room full of audiolingual equipment so designed that there is always one functioning booth less than the number of students waiting to come in. Language learner -- A category that includes language students but may or may not include language teachers. Overhead projector -- A piece of classroom equipment so designed as to project your first transparency upside-down no matter how you position it. Role-playing -- What we do some of the time in the classroom and all of the time elsewhere. Enjoy! -- Warren B. Roby, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Washington State University PO Box 642610 Pullman, WA 99164-2610 Tel. 509-335-8672 Fax 509-335-3708 [log in to unmask] http://www.wsu.edu/~roby/ "Oh, the thinks you can think!" Dr. Seuss