Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

France Trapped in the Past

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/france-trapped-in-the-past-d96c709362b6

 

For fifty years now, France has followed the erring EU on how to teach foreign languages and the result is frighteningly abominable. It all spins on one person who managed to impose the notional-functional pedagogy of MAK Halliday devised for migrant populations in extreme urgency, and he implemented it onto school children who only have one urgency in their life: watch TV or play with their cellphone or smartphone. They don't even try to get a detour around their parents' blocking porno sites. They are too lazy, as Eddy Constantine would say, and not adventurous enough to try and do this. In their daily solitude self-imposed onto themselves by their "telephones" they live in a dreamland in a dream landscape in a dream nowhere, EREWHON as a certain Butler would say.

 

It is high time we rethink the teaching of foreign languages in Europe for most people if not everyone to be able to cope with their neighbors or their guests, their European neighbors or the migrating visitors from all around the world. Europe is by far one or two generations late and France is one more generation later than everyone else. They love French so much they would rather die than order their lunch outside France in any other language than French, even if it is couscous or pizza, not to mention paella and sauerkraut. Glück auf my friends and Prozit!

 

2021, Medium.com

 THE FUTURE OF APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

https://www.academia.edu/49541311/THE_FUTURE_OF_APPLIED_PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352983175_THE_FUTURE_OF_APPLIED_PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

 

Psycholinguistics should become the central key stone of communication (teaching, discussing, and exchanging ideas and feelings) in tomorrow's world that is already here since we are in the post-pandemic world indeed. And this communication has to be real, distance or not, virtual or not, but always real between people who are assuming their whole personality and psyche. That's the applied dimension we need to develop. What do two people of different religions, different ethnic origins, different languages, different cultures will speak of tomorrow in the street, or if they are students in their classes with their classmates - even at a distance - and their teachers and professors? That is THE question and we have two or three years to advance in this perspective, in this path, significantly.

 

2021, Academia.edu

 

The Planet Is Dying, So Some Say?

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/the-planet-is-dying-so-some-say-5bf109f2778e

 

And they believe it, absolutely. Look at the heat waves, the tornadoes, the landslides, the forest fires, the volcanoes, the floods, the storms, even the social upheavals, and the pandemics. The end is close! Apocalyptically fascinating. In fact, the planet is dying so fast that we might not be able to save even the rich by sending them to Mars. It is the end. Ding! Dong! It is the end of the end. Dong! Ding! The beginning of after the end. The new Big Bang. A Big Rip without any Van Winkle back from the past, or a Big Squeeze, Big Crunch, Big Smithereens! But definitely the end of it all. Good riddance!

2021, Medium.com

 

 

Time Plotting in Kaku’s Lab

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/time-plotting-in-kakus-lab-d529605b5aa4

This is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equation' which would tie all the forces in the universe together, yet never found it. Some of the greatest minds in physics took up the search, from Stephen Hawking to Brian Greene. None have yet succeeded.

In The God Equation, renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku takes the reader on a mind-bending ride through the twists and turns of this epic journey: a mystery that has fascinated him for most of his life. He guides us through the key debates in modern physics, from Newton's law of gravity via relativity and quantum mechanics to the latest developments in string theory. It is a tale of dazzling breakthroughs and crushing dead ends, illuminated by Kaku's clarity, storytelling flair and infectious enthusiasm.

Medium.com 2021