I noticed that too. How nice of a "public" institution.
John Peter Daly
Adjunct Instructor of English
(908) 328-5756
jpdalyca@yahoo.com
Fall 2005 Teaching Schedule
ENG 041 B Basic Writing TR 2pm-3:50pm
ENG 041 G Basic Writing TR 12pm-1:50pm
ENG 042 B Developmental Reading TR 9am-10:50am
Biographical Profile
B.A., Kean University
M.A., California State University at Northridge (magna cum laude)
Professor Daly received his MA in Linguistics from California State University , Northridge in 2000. John enjoys teaching writing most of all, aside from his interests in socio-linguistic theory. His 12 years experience working in public health research adds another dimension to his interests. His research background translates into years of hands-on experience in writing research documents and papers in the professional world. Two video-workbook collections that he produced and wrote have won awards and are currently used by the Canadian Department of Health. Often linguists do not use their skills to teach grammar and writing, but Professor Daly finds that linguists have a special view on language that may help students—particularly students who have had trouble in these areas in the past. English courses generally are taught from a rule-based perspective. Students become overwhelmed with these rules and often find the exceptions make them impossible to manage. Linguistics view language from a descriptive point of view—that is they understand language in the same way you might organize a sock draw—by dumping the contents on the ground and seeing what goes together until finally ending up with a super-efficient drawer (or deeper understand of grammar and writing). Students often respond to this approach.
This would explain the grammatical and spelling errors in Daly's e-mail.
The little F@$%#*R is a Chomskyite that explains a lot .
Silly bastard needs a run in with a islamifascist that has the world view that Islam is the new master race. Preferably at the jihadist version of old time prayer meeting complete with video camera & dull ginzu knife.
LOL! What a load of crap. They could have saved space on his bio and told the truth. All that crap spouted off simply put means: He's done nothing of significance and if our college wasn't desparate to hire "professors" on the cheap, we'd have someone qualified.
Dump those contents on the ground! LOL
Since the inception of sociolinguistics four decades ago, the correlation of dependent linguistic variables has provided the theoretical core of the discipline. This volume reviews the essential findings that form its foundation and shows how empirical explorations have made it the most stimulating field in the contemporary study of language.
Sociolinguistic Theory discusses the linguistic variable and its significance, crucial social variables such as social stratification, sex and age, and the cultural purposes of linguistic variation. This second edtion has been updated to incorporate new findings and expand on the discussion of communicative competence and developmental sociolinguistics.
Sounds like something everyone should study!