Mark A Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark A Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark A |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Principles of Collaboration in School-University Partnerships
Mark A. Clarke, Alan Davis, Lynn K. Rhodes, Elaine DeLott Baker, Principles of Collaboration in School-University Partnerships, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3, Research and Practice in English Language Teacher Education (Autumn, 1998), pp. 592-600
The Dysfunctions of the Theory/Practice Discourse
The distinction between theory and practice in professional and public discourse is generally dysfunctional for teachers. There are a number of reasons for this. Because the individuals involved in developing theory are seldom full-time language teachers themselves, the theory/practice distinction creates strata of expertise in which teachers are considered less expert than theorists. The theory tends to be imported from other disciplines and is,…
Negotiating Agendas
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Problems, Prescriptions, and Paradoxes in Second Language Teaching
As teachers who have worked in a variety of settings during most of the past two decades, we have struggled to find answers to problems that confront language teachers everywhere. Now, as teacher trainers in Denver and Seattle, we find that we are routinely asked to give advice to teachers, to offer suggestions concerning activities and program goals. We are just beginning to appreciate the extent to which teachers are bound up in giving and rece…
On the Nature of Technique
Professionals constantly work back and forth between the insights of theory and the constraints of practice in an effort to construct a reasonably well-informed framework within which to conduct their day-to-day activities. One interesting aspect of the theory/practice dichotomy is the impact of acknowledged experts on the classroom behaviors of teachers. In this article I describe in detail one technique for teaching writing to ESL students and …
Linguistic Relativity and Sex/Gender Studies
Two studies have investigated one purported manifestation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity-the relationship between gender loading in languages (a linguistic construct) and the perception of gender (a psychological construct) by speakers of those languages. The results of the study conducted by the University of Michigan Language Behavior Research Group indicated that adult speakers of English and Hebrew categorized objects/…
On Bandwagons, Tyranny, and Common Sense
My task here is rather straightforward: I will sketch a brief history of second language teaching, reminding you of the revolutions which have occurred in recent memory. I will then attempt to distinguish between a methodological trend and a bandwagon. I will argue, furthermore, that bandwagons exercise subtle control over our professional debates and practices, which control, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, I will call tyrannical. I will c…
Untangling Referent and Reference in Linguistic Relativity Studies
We are pleased to have the opportunity to respond to Herold's critique of our recent paper, “Gender Perception in Arabic and English” (Clarke et al. 1981). The relationship between language and thought continues to attract interest and as Herold's letter illustrates, the complexity of the issues, coupled with the relatively clumsy methodology, permits a variety of interpretations of research results. In the following pages we will briefly review …
Reader's Choice
Reader's choice: a reading skills textbook for students of English as a second language , Reader's choice: a reading skills textbook for students of English as a second language , مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اطلاع رسانی کشاورزی
Gender Perception in Arabic and English
This paper describes a study conducted recently at the University of Colorado to investigate one aspect of the "Whorf-Sapir hypothesis" of linguistic relativity. The study was a replication of a series of investigations conducted by the University of Michigan Personality and Language Behavior Research Group (Beit-Hallahmi et al. 1974, Guiora and Sagi 1978, Guiora and Acton 1979, Guiora et al., in press) designed to examine the relationship betwee…
Reading in Spanish and English
The research discussed here attempted to determine if (a) pycholing-uistics could explain the reading behaviors of adult Spanish speakers reading in Spanish and in English, and (b) if theme readers transferred their skills to English. The results of two studies are presented. In the first study, twenty-one adult Spanish-speaking ESL students took cloze tests in Spanish and in English. In the second study, the Spanish and English reading performan…
Toward a Realization of Psycholinguistic Principles in the Esl Reading Class1
This article is an attempt to utilize psycholinguistic research to develop a framework for the teaching of reading to second language (L2) learners. The first section highlights current psycholinguistic reading theory and develops goals for L2 reading teachers based on this theory. The proficient reader is viewed as an active, information-processing individual who uses a minimum number of clues to extract the author's message from the page. It be…
Second Language Acquisition as a Clash of Consciousness
Recent interest in "humanism" in second language teaching and learning has produced a number of interesting paradigms for the examination of psycho-sociological factors in second language learning. Of particular note are the theoretical perspectives developed by Guiora et al. (1972, 1975), Gardner and Lambert (1972), and Schumann (1976). These characterizations of second language learning do not, however, provide explanations which lead directly …
Reading in Spanish and English
The research discussed here attempted to determine if (a) pycholing-uistics could explain the reading behaviors of adult Spanish speakers reading in Spanish and in English, and (b) if theme readers transferred their skills to English. The results of two studies are presented. In the first study, twenty-one adult Spanish-speaking ESL students took cloze tests in Spanish and in English. In the second study, the Spanish and English reading performan…
The Dysfunctions of the Theory/Practice Discourse
The distinction between theory and practice in professional and public discourse is generally dysfunctional for teachers. There are a number of reasons for this. Because the individuals involved in developing theory are seldom full-time language teachers themselves, the theory/practice distinction creates strata of expertise in which teachers are considered less expert than theorists. The theory tends to be imported from other disciplines and is,…
Second Language Acquisition as a Clash of Consciousness
Recent interest in "humanism" in second language teaching and learning has produced a number of interesting paradigms for the examination of psycho-sociological factors in second language learning. Of particular note are the theoretical perspectives developed by Guiora et al. (1972, 1975), Gardner and Lambert (1972), and Schumann (1976). These characterizations of second language learning do not, however, provide explanations which lead directly …
Gender Perception in Arabic and English
This paper describes a study conducted recently at the University of Colorado to investigate one aspect of the "Whorf-Sapir hypothesis" of linguistic relativity. The study was a replication of a series of investigations conducted by the University of Michigan Personality and Language Behavior Research Group (Beit-Hallahmi et al. 1974, Guiora and Sagi 1978, Guiora and Acton 1979, Guiora et al., in press) designed to examine the relationship betwee…
Toward a Realization of Psycholinguistic Principles in the Esl Reading Class1
This article is an attempt to utilize psycholinguistic research to develop a framework for the teaching of reading to second language (L2) learners. The first section highlights current psycholinguistic reading theory and develops goals for L2 reading teachers based on this theory. The proficient reader is viewed as an active, information-processing individual who uses a minimum number of clues to extract the author's message from the page. It be…
Linguistic Relativity and Sex/Gender Studies
Two studies have investigated one purported manifestation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity-the relationship between gender loading in languages (a linguistic construct) and the perception of gender (a psychological construct) by speakers of those languages. The results of the study conducted by the University of Michigan Language Behavior Research Group indicated that adult speakers of English and Hebrew categorized objects/…
On Bandwagons, Tyranny, and Common Sense
My task here is rather straightforward: I will sketch a brief history of second language teaching, reminding you of the revolutions which have occurred in recent memory. I will then attempt to distinguish between a methodological trend and a bandwagon. I will argue, furthermore, that bandwagons exercise subtle control over our professional debates and practices, which control, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, I will call tyrannical. I will c…
Untangling Referent and Reference in Linguistic Relativity Studies
We are pleased to have the opportunity to respond to Herold's critique of our recent paper, “Gender Perception in Arabic and English” (Clarke et al. 1981). The relationship between language and thought continues to attract interest and as Herold's letter illustrates, the complexity of the issues, coupled with the relatively clumsy methodology, permits a variety of interpretations of research results. In the following pages we will briefly review …
Second Language Acquisition as a Clash of Consciousness
Recent interest in "humanism" in second language teaching and learning has produced a number of interesting paradigms for the examination of psycho-sociological factors in second language learning. Of particular note are the theoretical perspectives developed by Guiora et al. (1972, 1975), Gardner and Lambert (1972), and Schumann (1976). These characterizations of second language learning do not, however, provide explanations which lead directly …
Toward a Realization of Psycholinguistic Principles in the Esl Reading Class1
This article is an attempt to utilize psycholinguistic research to develop a framework for the teaching of reading to second language (L2) learners. The first section highlights current psycholinguistic reading theory and develops goals for L2 reading teachers based on this theory. The proficient reader is viewed as an active, information-processing individual who uses a minimum number of clues to extract the author's message from the page. It be…
Reading in Spanish and English
The research discussed here attempted to determine if (a) pycholing-uistics could explain the reading behaviors of adult Spanish speakers reading in Spanish and in English, and (b) if theme readers transferred their skills to English. The results of two studies are presented. In the first study, twenty-one adult Spanish-speaking ESL students took cloze tests in Spanish and in English. In the second study, the Spanish and English reading performan…
Reader's Choice
Reader's choice: a reading skills textbook for students of English as a second language , Reader's choice: a reading skills textbook for students of English as a second language , مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اطلاع رسانی کشاورزی
Gender Perception in Arabic and English
This paper describes a study conducted recently at the University of Colorado to investigate one aspect of the "Whorf-Sapir hypothesis" of linguistic relativity. The study was a replication of a series of investigations conducted by the University of Michigan Personality and Language Behavior Research Group (Beit-Hallahmi et al. 1974, Guiora and Sagi 1978, Guiora and Acton 1979, Guiora et al., in press) designed to examine the relationship betwee…
On Bandwagons, Tyranny, and Common Sense
My task here is rather straightforward: I will sketch a brief history of second language teaching, reminding you of the revolutions which have occurred in recent memory. I will then attempt to distinguish between a methodological trend and a bandwagon. I will argue, furthermore, that bandwagons exercise subtle control over our professional debates and practices, which control, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, I will call tyrannical. I will c…
Untangling Referent and Reference in Linguistic Relativity Studies
We are pleased to have the opportunity to respond to Herold's critique of our recent paper, “Gender Perception in Arabic and English” (Clarke et al. 1981). The relationship between language and thought continues to attract interest and as Herold's letter illustrates, the complexity of the issues, coupled with the relatively clumsy methodology, permits a variety of interpretations of research results. In the following pages we will briefly review …
On the Nature of Technique
Professionals constantly work back and forth between the insights of theory and the constraints of practice in an effort to construct a reasonably well-informed framework within which to conduct their day-to-day activities. One interesting aspect of the theory/practice dichotomy is the impact of acknowledged experts on the classroom behaviors of teachers. In this article I describe in detail one technique for teaching writing to ESL students and …
Linguistic Relativity and Sex/Gender Studies
Two studies have investigated one purported manifestation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity-the relationship between gender loading in languages (a linguistic construct) and the perception of gender (a psychological construct) by speakers of those languages. The results of the study conducted by the University of Michigan Language Behavior Research Group indicated that adult speakers of English and Hebrew categorized objects/…
Problems, Prescriptions, and Paradoxes in Second Language Teaching
As teachers who have worked in a variety of settings during most of the past two decades, we have struggled to find answers to problems that confront language teachers everywhere. Now, as teacher trainers in Denver and Seattle, we find that we are routinely asked to give advice to teachers, to offer suggestions concerning activities and program goals. We are just beginning to appreciate the extent to which teachers are bound up in giving and rece…
Negotiating Agendas
Preview this article: Negotiating Agendas: Preliminary Considerations, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/la/66/4/languagearts24885-1.gif
The Dysfunctions of the Theory/Practice Discourse
The distinction between theory and practice in professional and public discourse is generally dysfunctional for teachers. There are a number of reasons for this. Because the individuals involved in developing theory are seldom full-time language teachers themselves, the theory/practice distinction creates strata of expertise in which teachers are considered less expert than theorists. The theory tends to be imported from other disciplines and is,…
Principles of Collaboration in School-University Partnerships
Mark A. Clarke, Alan Davis, Lynn K. Rhodes, Elaine DeLott Baker, Principles of Collaboration in School-University Partnerships, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3, Research and Practice in English Language Teacher Education (Autumn, 1998), pp. 592-600
Psychology (12 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (3 works)