[lit-ideas] Re: SOS or Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 06:27:50 -0700 (PDT)
--- Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 5/19/2006 3:48:05 AM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: SOS or Charles Taylor's
> Sources of the Self
> >
> >
> > The procedures you describe might well be the
> beginning of teaching
> > English to those who don't know it; but they'd
> also be the beginning of
> > teaching words to those who do know it. That is to
> say, it's about what
> > one would expect in ordinary conversation between
> those who do and those
> > who don't know the meanings of particular English
> words*. What's clearly
> > missing is what I took you to be asking Taylor
> for, namely, a precise
> > (or 'formal') definition of anything.
>
>
> Very busy but can't resist, and if I misunderstand
> your point, then
> apologies. Teaching English, or any language, to
> those who don't know it,
> has nothing to do with definition. It's
> translation.
*Well, no it isn't necessarily. You could also miss an
opportunity to pontificate about things you know
little about on occasion. I don't speak too much
Chinese and I try to avoid using in class even what I
do know because it's not very helpful. I haven't
exactly invented the "direct approach" to language
teaching, either.
O.K.
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