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On learning and acquiring a language

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: Learning a language seems an uphill task when juxtaposed with correct usage and grammar. However, a language seems easy to acquire when one actually lives in it.

All these aspects of learning and teaching a language is analysed by K.N. Anandan in his forthcoming book called `Tuition to Intuition.' Dr. Anandan, who has developed a few programmes in learning the second language among others, for the State Government, in this new book glances through many linguistic theories that had evolved over the years and provides a view of his own.

He believes that the usual methods of teaching English need to be changed since they end up producing people who have learned the language only by its correctness and not by actually interacting in it. Heavily guided by the Chomskyan belief of innate sense of language in humans, Dr. Anandan also goes about explaining the basic biology of brain that helps in language learning and acquiring.

The book will be released at a function at the Thiruvananthapuram Press Club on Wednesday at a function in which Minister of Education M.A. Baby will do the honours.

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