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The class is the introduction to issues concerning sports business. I will be asking various experts from different topics to share with you their experience and point of view. What I want you to do is to find out interesting areas, feel from the guest speakers' stories. and then try and experience yourself to learn.
In this class, we first learn to use corpus to explore how we understand meanings of each word and how the lexicon is structured in the mind. We then discuss the following issues. 1) In what degree are linguistic categories diverse across different languages? Is there any universality in the way different languages carve up the world?; 2) To what extent does our thought depend on language? ; 3) to what extent is children’s conceptual development shaped by language learning?
The importance of language communication is increasing when globalization goes on and people who has different cultural background and sense of values work, learn and live together. In these days, we have to acquire communicative language competence and intercultural competence in order to understand each other.
The goal of this class is to consider how do we design culture and language learning environment to promote these competencies through theoretical research and workshop design.
＊In the fall 2020 semester, online workshops will be planned and implemented by the group.