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  2. Internet linguistics - Wikipedia

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    This will affect the way language is used as students and teachers begin to use more of these CMC platforms. [8] At a professional level, it is a common sight for companies to have their computers and laptops hooked up onto the Internet (via wired and wireless Internet connection), and for employees to have individual e-mail accounts. This ...

  3. List of common misconceptions about language learning

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    It is often assumed that young children learn languages more easily than adolescents and adults. [2] [5] However, the reverse is true; older learners are faster.For example, a study of 17,000 British students showed that those who started learning French aged 11 performed better than those who started learning it aged 8. [6]

  4. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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    Language has certain limitations, and humans cannot express all that they think. [2] Writing was a powerful new invention because it enabled revision of language, allowing an initial thought to be conveyed, reviewed and revised before expression.

  5. Multilingualism and globalization - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, based on the Ambient Insight's report, there are more than 50,000 privately-operated English language institutes established in China. [4] Furthermore, economically, being a bilingual who are able to use English and another language is worth generating no less than $128,000 during a 40-year period of economic activity.

  6. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    The development of communicative language teaching was bolstered by these academic ideas. Before the growth of communicative language teaching, the primary method of language teaching was situational language teaching, a method that was much more clinical in nature and relied less on direct communication. In Britain, applied linguists began to ...

  7. Mutual intelligibility - Wikipedia

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    Asymmetric intelligibility refers to two languages that are considered partially mutually intelligible, but for various reasons, one group of speakers has more difficulty understanding the other language than the other way around. For example, if one language is related to another but has simplified its grammar, the speakers of the original ...

  8. Language of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The language of mathematics or mathematical language is an extension of the natural language (for example English) that is used in mathematics and in science for expressing results (scientific laws, theorems, proofs, logical deductions, etc.) with concision, precision and unambiguity.

  9. Languages of science - Wikipedia

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    The gradual disuse of Latin opened an uneasy transition period as more and more works were only accessible in local languages. Many national European languages held the potential to become a language of science within a specific research field: some scholars "took measures to learn Swedish so they could follow the work of [the Swedish chemist] Bergman and his compatriots."