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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nSaturday, April 08, 2023 12:00 pm to 2:00
  pm \n Online Event \n\nSpeakers \nMasoud Jasbi \n\nDescription: \nLeaky G
 rammars and Language PedagogyThe Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Ir
 anian Studies in collaboration with the Department of Near Eastern Languag
 es and Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Universit
 y of Chicago present 'Virtual Lecture Series on Persian Language Pedagogy:
  New Trends and I\novations'.Conveners: Azita H. Taleghani Pouneh Shabani 
 JadidiAbstract: Language pedagogy typically involves explicitly presenting
  grammatical generalizations and examples that motivate them. For example\
 , an English teacher may say that “the” is used with familiar nouns like “
 the cat in the hat” and “a” with unfamiliar ones like “a cat in the neighb
 ourhood”.  Similarly, a teacher of Persian might say that the plural mark
 er “ha” appears on plural and familiar nouns but not unfamiliar ones. Lear
 ners are expected to use these generalizations to comprehend or produce ut
 terances in novel contexts. Such grammatical generalizations give learners
  an advantage over pure self-discovery. However, this approach is as good
  as the generalizations themselves. Since grammatical generalizations leak
 , this approach often introduces misconceptions and leads to errors due t
 o the leaky nature of the generalization. We focus on definiteness and plu
 ralization in Persian and present several “leaky generalizations” that may
  have affected Persian language pedagogy. We suggest that a closer dialogu
 e between theoretical linguistics and language pedagogy would reduce error
 s introduced by leaky generalizations and likely improve language learning
  in the classroom.Bio:Masoud Jasbi is Assistant Professor of linguistics a
 t UC Davis. His main areas of research include language acquisition, sema
 ntics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, computational and experimental me
 thods in linguistics.(This event is sponsored by the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Dja
 lali Institute of Iranian Studies, the Department of Near and Middle East
 ern Civilizations, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, and the Departmen
 t of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and the Center for Middle Eas
 tern Studies, University of Chicago)* Zoom Registration: https://utoronto
 .zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtfu2qqjkvHdYeuES1McyTARE2CN... \n\nContact In
 formation: \n Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations nmc@utor
 onto.ca Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations \n\nSponsors 
 \nDepartment of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations \n\nCategories \n Le
 cture \n\nAudiences \n All
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SUMMARY:Leaky Grammars and Language Pedagogy
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/leaky-grammars-and-l
 anguage-pedagogy
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