So You Know a Linguist…

Filed under PhD Research, Random by on February 8, 2012 at 3:25 am {no comments}

On behalf of all linguists, thank you Jodie! View more presentations from Jodie Martin

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Linguistic Semantics: Language Reflects Ways of Living and Thinking

Filed under Learning French, Learning Other Languages, PhD Research by on February 4, 2012 at 12:25 pm {19 comments}

Anna Wierzbicka is a Polish-Australian linguist who has extensively researched intercultural linguistics, semantics and pragmatics. I have been reading many of her books and articles for my PhD research because she is interested in how language reflects ways of living and thinking, and more specifically, how the lexicon or words of a language can provide [...]

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Being a Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Student in Australia

Filed under Australia, PhD Research by on August 12, 2011 at 8:18 pm {12 comments}

Let me tell you a little about being a Higher Degree by Research (HDR) student in Australia. As the name implies, it is a research only degree that is supposed to take three years – meaning you don’t have any courses to take and your “full-time job” is to do research. You can teach/tutor if [...]

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I created this blog in September 2006 when I moved to France from Michigan to teach English. Many of the earlier posts are about my personal life in France, dealing with culture shock, traveling in Europe and becoming fluent in French. In January 2010, I started focusing more on teaching and learning languages in general. In July 2011, I relocated to Australia to start my PhD in Applied Linguistics. Although I am no longer living in France, my research is on foreign language pedagogy and I teach French at the university so these themes appear most often on the blog. I also continue to post about traveling (though now my trips are usually in Australia) and being an American abroad.

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