Applied Linguistics and Language Study
Language and Discrimination
1st Edition
By Celia Roberts, Tom (Chief Inspector Of Education In Camden, London) Jupp, Evelyn (Formerly Inspector Of Education In West London) Davies
August 10, 1992
Langauge and Discrimination provides a unique and authoritative study of the linguistic dimension of racial discrimination. Based upon extensive work carried out over many years by the Industrial Language Training Service in the U.K, this illuminating analysis argues that a real understanding of ...
Rediscovering Interlanguage
1st Edition
By Larry Selinker, William E. Rutherford
February 10, 1992
An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language. Draws on wide-ranging research into contrastive analysis, bilingualism, theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology....
Language Awareness in the Classroom
1st Edition
By Carl James, Peter Garrett, Peter (Lecturer In Linguistics, University Of Wales, Bangor) Garett, Christopher N. Candlin
December 16, 1991
Language Awareness in the Classroom addresses the central educational question of the impact that explicit language knowledge has on learning and language learning.A substantial Introduction defines the issues and key concepts and relates them to contemporary educational policy and practice in ...
Translation and Translating: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Roger T. Bell
October 07, 1991
Argues that the subjective evaluation of the product must give way to a descriptive and objective attempt to reveal the workings of the process (ie translating). Without such a shift, translation theory will continue outside the mainstream of intellectual activity in human sciences and fail to take...
Process and Experience in the Language Classroom
1st Edition
By Michael Legutke, Howard Thomas, Christopher N. Candlin
August 05, 1991
Process and Experience in the Language Classroom argues the case for communicative language teaching as an experiential and task driven learning process. The authors raise important questions regarding the theoretical discussion of communicative competence and current classroom practice. They ...
An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research
1st Edition
By Diane Larsen-Freeman, Michael H. Long
April 08, 1991
Understanding how people learn and fail to learn second and foreign languages is increasingly recognised as a critical social and psycholinguistic issue. Second languages are vitally important to diverse groups of people, ranging from refugees to college students facing foreign language ...
Listening in Language Learning
1st Edition
By Michael Rost, C.N. Candlin
July 02, 1990
Examines listening as both a means of achieving understanding and as a teachable skill. The underlying theme of the volume is that an integration of cognitive, social, and educational perspectives is necessary in order to characterise effectively what listening ability is and how it may develop. It...
Observation in the Language Classroom
1st Edition
By Dick Allwright
March 14, 1988
This book provides an account of classroom observation in a historical and educational perspective. Drawing on extracts from classic studies in this field, Dick Allwright reviews the development of research and experiment since the 1970's. The book thus not only provides a background to recent ...
Vocabulary and Language Teaching
1st Edition
By Ronald Carter, Michael Mccarthy
February 29, 1988
The material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in the 1930s and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. Two chapters describe the main foundations of lexical semantics and relevant research and pedagogical studies in ...
Second Language Grammar: Learning and Teaching
1st Edition
By William E. Rutherford
May 05, 1987
The thrust of the book is not so much upon the formation of grammatical constructs but rather upon the shape of the grammatical system and its relation to semantics, discourse and pragmatics....
Bilingualism in Education: Aspects of theory, research and practice
1st Edition
By Jim Cummins, Merrill Swain
July 07, 1986
This is a remarkably interesting and useful book...it makes a significant contribution to our knowledge and understanding of both bilingualism and education.'Journal of Education Policy...
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis
2nd Edition
By Margaret Coulthard
December 02, 1985
The central concern of this book is the analysis of verbal interaction or discourse. This first six chapters report and evaluate major theoretical advances in the description of discourse. The final chapters demonstrate how the findings of discourse analysis can be used to investigate ...