Stephen Pit Corder (6 October 1918 – 27 January 1990) was a professor of applied linguistics at Edinburgh University, known for his contribution to the study of error analysis. He was the first Chair of the British Association for Applied...
Corder is a surname. It has its roots primarily as an English occupational surname for a ropemaker, entering Middle English from Old French. It is also theorized to have come from a nickname for someone who wore a lot of bows or ribbons in some...
Lapine is a fictional language created by author Richard Adams for his 1972 novel Watership Down, where it is spoken by rabbit characters. The language was again used in Adams's 1996 sequel, Tales from Watership Down, and has appeared in both the...
Larry Selinker (September 19, 1937 – May 10, 2026) was the professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Michigan and former director of the university's English Language Institute. In 1972, Selinker introduced the concept of...
The Yamnaya (, YAM-ny-ə), or Yamna (, YAM-nə), culture, also known as the Pit Grave culture or Ochre Grave culture, was a late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers...
Below are some notable researchers in language acquisition listed by intellectual orientation and research topic.
Henry George Widdowson (born 28 May 1935, in Leicester, England) is an applied linguist, internationally well known for his ideas about discourse and the nature of communication in relation to a wide range of areas of English study, including...
In applied linguistics, an error is an unintended deviation from the immanent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner. Such errors result from the learner's lack of knowledge of the correct rules of the target language variety....
Bootham School is a private Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19 and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England.
