Twitter+Selections

Here are my three Twitter selections with explanations:

1. Nikki commenting on disciplined thinking. [|nixnido] nixnido  //by peterjones3000//  [|#languathinking] disciplined thinking is critically assessing your own ideas and thoughts Twitter promotes precise, original and focused thinking.. According to Blake, "Language learning is assisted through social interaction of learners and their interlocutors, particularly when they negotiate toward mutual comprehension of each other's message meaning." Nikki's short definition helps me understand some of the linguistic vocabulary. Her tweet also adds to the ongoing class languaculture around thinking. 1.     [|peterjones3000]  peter jones ie, new grammar? [|#languathinking] [|19 Jul]

[|peterjones3000] peter jones & new conventions emerge. like, dropping subjects. [|#languathinking] I used to think that text language was a bad English. Now I see it as a way individuals artfully use language to meet the needs of a particular context. I see that it encourages a flexible use of language. It's triglossia in action. [|19 Jul] 3. [|LindaPimes]  Linda Pimes disciplined thinking is reconstructing your internal dialogue and understandings in response to all aspects of environment. see bahktin.

Just about everything I read before I came here was opaque. Now I have more understandings of the ideas around applied linguistics and technology in the foreign language classroom and am forming my own questions. I have started picking up the vocabulary and a new way of seeing (The Frog). There are so many levels of looking at language and thinking.