Teaching linguistics to foreign language majors

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Allan W. Grundstrom

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As a linguist in a foreign language department an important goal for me is to make linguistics a significant part of a curriculum that historically has been the exclusive domain of literary criticism. As a French teacher I want our majors to learn something about the history of the language and something about its grammar from the linguist's point of view. Their experience learning the language with the help of prescriptive, pedagogical grammars provides them with surprisingly little understanding of the way the language works.

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