Philosophical Investigations for Applied Linguistics

keywords:applied linguistics, communicative language ability, critical applied linguistics, alternative approaches to SLA, EFL/ESL, TEFL/TESL, Exploratory Practice, Arendt, Luhmann, Wittgenstein, media ecology, neuroscience, philosophy, postmodernism, martial arts

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Let not your consciousness control you (over its capacity)

One of the surest ways to make people dislike or disrespect you, at least among an intellectual circle, is to say that you believe in God. ...

Friday, June 10, 2011

Reading Luhmann to understand Twitter and this changing world

Twitter, an important "actor" in the social system today, led me to a very interesting paper: Structural Coupling and Translation ...

Saturday, May 7, 2011

A veteran engineer calls for volunteers from other senior citizens for the repair of the Fukushima nuclear plants

Yastel Yamada, a retired engineer, has proposed a rational and pragmatic solution for the repair of the Fukushima nuclear plants: calling fo...

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Yosuke YANASE: Kyoto, -- Please Select (only U.S. / Can / Aus), Japan; I'm (Mr./Dr.) Yosuke YANASE, Professor at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS) in Kyoto University. I teach English as a practitioner-researcher.

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