Physics Lab and Linguistics Textbook Bath
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tsukikageGrr... I can't find my class notes from yesterday... Good thing they didn't really matter, anyway. ^^;
Lab went well today. I believe our T.A., Yen-Hsiang Lin, is Chinese or Taiwanese. (Can anyone recognize that name?) His spoken English is quite good, and he doesn't have much of an accent, so I won't have any trouble understanding him. I must say, though, I have to smile a bit when he says "to ...-tion" ("begin to calibration"). ^_^
My current group members, Mai and Michael, are nice, too. Mai's a pre-pharmacy major, and Michael's mechanical engineering, if I remember correctly.
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yumenohoshi's after class to get my DVD folders, and it turns out my linguistics textbook was there. Thank goodness! I thought I'd have to buy it again, which woulda sucked, even if it was only $25. I'm kinda wondering how much I'll like the class, though. The textbook, at least, seems to be focused more towards TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) folks and what teaching methods are best than going into depth as to theories of how we learn languages. Obviously the two are intimately connected, and to ignore teaching theories would do injustice to studying learning theory, but... I dunno. I should wait until I actually read the book and take the class before I judge.
Anyways, I should get to work now.
P.S. Getting surprise tea leaves in your mouth is funny.
Lab went well today. I believe our T.A., Yen-Hsiang Lin, is Chinese or Taiwanese. (Can anyone recognize that name?) His spoken English is quite good, and he doesn't have much of an accent, so I won't have any trouble understanding him. I must say, though, I have to smile a bit when he says "to ...-tion" ("begin to calibration"). ^_^
My current group members, Mai and Michael, are nice, too. Mai's a pre-pharmacy major, and Michael's mechanical engineering, if I remember correctly.
Popped up to
yumenohoshi's after class to get my DVD folders, and it turns out my linguistics textbook was there. Thank goodness! I thought I'd have to buy it again, which woulda sucked, even if it was only $25. I'm kinda wondering how much I'll like the class, though. The textbook, at least, seems to be focused more towards TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) folks and what teaching methods are best than going into depth as to theories of how we learn languages. Obviously the two are intimately connected, and to ignore teaching theories would do injustice to studying learning theory, but... I dunno. I should wait until I actually read the book and take the class before I judge.Anyways, I should get to work now.
P.S. Getting surprise tea leaves in your mouth is funny.
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