Lojban In General

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 23:29, Adam Raizen <adam.raizen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I disagree with that. As far as I can tell all coordinates get their
> ability through acquisition, sometimes in conjunction with varying degrees
> of learning. A coodinate bilingual who got their ability solely through
> learning is probably non-existent, certainly extremely rare. I'd have to
> reread Krashen but I believe the experimental evidence supports this. As far
> as compounds and acquisition, there is also a complicating factor of
> psychological motivation for learning the language, which seems to have a
> very significant effect on what kind of language input gets accepted by the
> student for the purpose of acquisition.
>

I should add that Krashen also has a component of his theory called Monitor
theory, which is basically the ability to consciously apply rules (monitor
one's linguistic output). Would you agree that a coordinate bilingual can
necessarily use their ability orally, or would you assert if someone can
pass for a native in writing but speaks non-fluently and with many foreign
language mistakes, they are still a coordinate bilingual? If so we will have
to clarify on our definitions some more.

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Adam Raizen <adam.raizen@gmail.com>
Timendi causa est nescire.