1. Reviewing Essential Linguistics by David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman Presented Kathryn Jesser and Abigail Bloem

2. Overview -Why this Book is important according to Halliday and Freeman and Freeman -First and Second Language Acquisition -The technical aspects of linguistics and how to apply them in the classroom

3. Why This Book is Important to Teachers According to Halliday, cited in Freeman and Freeman, we all learn: -Through Language -About Language -Language Freeman and Freeman: “Teachers with linguistic knowledge can help their students learn language.” (xi)

4. What Does it Mean to “Know” a Word? -Phonological recognition -Morphological recognition -Syntactic understanding -Semantic understanding -P ragmatic understanding We have to know what these things are in order to teach them.

7. Animals would also speak if this were the case

8. Children do not imitate adults

9. Learning language is too speedy to be done this way!

12. Limited amount of evidence for hypotheses

13. Limited feedback (mostly from caretakers)

15. Generative Grammar:the rules of the dominant language that make up any given sentence. These must be learned.

20. Acquiring Language: making meaning is more important than how it is said.

21. The Views of the teacher greatly affect how the student learns

22. Phonology

25. Do oddity tasks

26. Blend or split syllables

27. Perform phonemic segmentation

29. Acquisition: phonology is acquired by using the language to communicate

31. Analytic:analyzing known words and sounds to make new words

32. Analogy based: use word families to make new words

33. Spelling: segment words into phonemes and write the words with the sounds

34. Embedded: letter-sound correspondences while reading

35. Onset-rime: connect sounds of new words and rhymes to the letters that spell them

37. Some words are spelled the same but sound different and have different meanings

39. A Note on the Book

40. Orthography

41. Morphology

45. Cognates

46. Text Analysis

47. Syntax

49. Missing information

50. Charts and Text

51. Easy to understand and Strong Purpose

52. Conclusion

56. Resources Freeman and Freeman Halliday Look up the histroy of linguistics in the classroom