At least that was Orwell's great hope for language.
George Carlin, who died two weeks ago at 71, was a social satirist in comedian's clothing with a great feel for language, both fair and foul.
He had a great attitude for language and character and performance.' But suddenly, inexplicably, playing the king in a student production of Love's Labour's Lost, he suffered a debilitating attack of stage fright.
The possibility that inappropriate score-based interpretations and uses of tests may introduce unfair consequences to different groups of test takers is a great problem for language teachers and researchers.
The essential nature of Web 2.0 (in one definition, the active use of technologies such as social networking, WIKIs, blogs and crowd filtration to create web-based communities who collaborate, create and share content) offers great opportunities for language learners.
To test a critical assumption of the model redundancy is greatest for languages with few L2 learners we compared a translation of a document into 103 languages and observed a highly significant correlation (r = −.56, P<.0005) between population and redundancy (see Text S11).
But that raised another question: Did heightened activity correspond to a greater aptitude for language?
He added, "The scans confirmed our expectation that this patient had a greater capacity for language than he demonstrated".
The increase in strategies and activities, in particular, demonstrates that after the initial course the teachers provided greater support for language and thinking in connection to the content and language objectives.
An article published in August in the journal Health Affairs found that a quarter of the hospitals with the greatest need for language services (based on the surrounding population) did not provide such services in a systematic way, and nearly a third of all U.S. hospitals don't offer language services at all.
