Monthly Archives: January 2013

You may recall me mentioning in our last lesson the way that students have used blogs in the past as a means of demonstrating progress, sharing ideas, keeping links and resources together, making things like surveys/questionnaires available, and s… Continue reading →

Ancient Scripts: Why Languages Change Tags: ENGB3, change, history Dialect levelling in Britain – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tags: ENGB3, change, language change, varieties Studying the History of English Comprehensive coverage of History of English and Language Change issues from … Continue reading →

Descriptivism vs. prescriptivism: War is over (if you want it) « Sentence first Tags: ENGB3, change, prescriptivism, attitudes Posted from Diigo. The rest of English Language Teachers group favorite links are here.

The Rise of Prescriptivism in English Academic paper on eighteenth century prescriptivism, the ‘Academy’ question etc Tags: prescriptivism, ENGB3, attitudes, academy – By Ant Heald Posted from Diigo. The rest of English Language Teachers group favorite links are here.