Donald M Topping
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald M Topping |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald M |
| FAMILY NAME | Topping |
| SIGNATURE | TOPPING D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaii System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Thinking Across Cultures
Thinking Across Cultures
This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives. The participants were asked to consider and assess the question of whether people from different cultures think differently. Moreover, they were asked to consider whether the same approaches to teaching and development of thinking will work in all cultures as well as they do in Western, literate societies.
Saviors of Languages
This paper was presented by the author at the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (7ICAL) at Leiden in 1994, at a plenary session on endangered languages, the last session of the conference, held on a Saturday morning after some of the conference participants had already departed—probably responsible for the petulance that comes through in its preamble. Nevertheless, those who stayed for the session (which included an ope…
Pacific Languages in Education
Chamorro Vowel Harmony
5. Conclusion This paper describes the system of vowel harmony in Chamorro,' the existence of which has received passing attention in previous studies, but which until now has not been examined carefully for its determining features. Chamorro shows two distinct types of what can generally be termed vowel harmony. The first of these involves fronting at three different vowel heights; the second involves vowel height within the macrosegment, where …
Linguistics or Literature
The question of literature is a vital one for ESL teaching since literature is the most expressive function of a language-yet its position in an ESL program has never been adequately defined because such consideration reaches into the most fundamental assumptions of language and language teaching, and we have too often accepted such fundamentals as received data and concentrated our thought and time on methods-the hows rather than the whys of TES…
University of Hawaii Peace Corps Language Training Program
Contrastive Analysis and Sandhi Alternation
Loanblends, a Tool for Linguists
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Loanblends, a Tool for Linguists
Contrastive Analysis and Sandhi Alternation
University of Hawaii Peace Corps Language Training Program
Chamorro Vowel Harmony
5. Conclusion This paper describes the system of vowel harmony in Chamorro,' the existence of which has received passing attention in previous studies, but which until now has not been examined carefully for its determining features. Chamorro shows two distinct types of what can generally be termed vowel harmony. The first of these involves fronting at three different vowel heights; the second involves vowel height within the macrosegment, where …
Linguistics or Literature
The question of literature is a vital one for ESL teaching since literature is the most expressive function of a language-yet its position in an ESL program has never been adequately defined because such consideration reaches into the most fundamental assumptions of language and language teaching, and we have too often accepted such fundamentals as received data and concentrated our thought and time on methods-the hows rather than the whys of TES…
Pacific Languages in Education
Saviors of Languages
This paper was presented by the author at the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (7ICAL) at Leiden in 1994, at a plenary session on endangered languages, the last session of the conference, held on a Saturday morning after some of the conference participants had already departed—probably responsible for the petulance that comes through in its preamble. Nevertheless, those who stayed for the session (which included an ope…
Thinking Across Cultures
Thinking Across Cultures
This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives. The participants were asked to consider and assess the question of whether people from different cultures think differently. Moreover, they were asked to consider whether the same approaches to teaching and development of thinking will work in all cultures as well as they do in Western, literate societies.
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Citation (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (2 works)