I wanted to celebrate the craft of writing, demonstrate the value of language and get people thinking.
Mr. DeLillo's play, a Beckettian tale about a pilgrim and a scholar, raises doubts about the value of language in the face of catastrophe.
Among the questions discussed was how to measure the value of language skills in the economy, and how to better support their development in schools and universities.
More crucially, they might actually see the value of language learning in a wider context, and want to take it further.
Though today's Pantone color system — which traces its origins to an 1886 color nomenclature by the ornithologist Robert Ridgway — uses numerical codes to identify its more than twenty-three hundred colors, its curators appear to be well aware of the value of language.
Finally, one must mention the epistemic role and value of language, its ability or inability to provide veridical knowledge about the world.
As a practitioner of the human sciences, he is concerned with language as an object of study; therefore, he does not pose the question of the ontological value of language, language as the place of truth.
An early expression of the Neo-Confucian belief in the ultimate value of language and meaning was made by Hayashi Razan in the preface to his colloquial rendition of Chen Beixi's (1159-1223) The Meanings of Neo-Confucian Terms (Xingli ziyi).
These findings suggest that participation in international study may be facilitated in part by interventions that seek to modify expectations, reduce ethnocentrism and prejudice, and help students understand the value of language study.
Chinese scholars have long been trying to build an efficient foreign language teaching system (Dai 2001), but it was five years after the publication of the CEFR that the value of language ability scales was realized when Han (2006) did a comprehensive review of some influential language ability scales in the world, with the CEFR as the most representative one.
