Interlanguage Quotes & Sayings

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society. — Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. — Louis Agassiz

There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us. — Joan D. Chittister

There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't. — Edna Ferber

The fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage ... — Sylvia Pankhurst

Crochety friend. On the afternoon of the second day, she went out to do an — Louisa May Alcott

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background. — Joan Allen

Whether or not these ideas alone would solve any of the problems discussed, I look forward to the day when SLA is more widely recognized as the serious and socially responsive discipline I believe it can be. Chapters like this one (unpleasant for writer and assuredly some readers alike) would no longer be needed. One could instead concentrate on the genuine controversies and excitement in SLA and L3A: the roles of nature and nurture; special and general nativism; child-adult differences and the possibility of maturational constraints; cross-linguistic influence; acquisition and socialization; cognitive and social factors; resilience; stabilization; fossilization, and other putative mechanisms and processes in interlanguage change; the feasibility of pedagogical intervention; and, most of all, the development of viable theories. — Michael H. Long