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ERIC Number: EJ225321
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980
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Reducing Student Resistance to the Illogic of English: But I Don't Want to Go among Mad People.
Gallagher, Brian
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v6 n3 p225-28 Spr 1980
Suggests ways to help students enjoy the illogic or inconsistencies of English by comparing conventional usage of several major world languages. (MKM)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Standard Spoken Usage, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Two Year Colleges, Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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