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Publication details [#56336]

Pablé, Adrian. 2012. Logophilia, logophobia and the terra mota of personal linguistic experience. Language & Communication 32 (3) : 257–264.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

expectation | experience | language teaching | second language acquisition | university

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Tapping into experience with English in Hong Kong, this paper debates how an integrational orientation to tertiary education linguistics teaching varies from the orthodox approach, rejecting mythical thinking about language which engenders ‘logophilia’ and ‘logophobia’pathologies.