An introduction to applied linguistics : approaches and methods in language teaching
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An introduction to applied linguistics : approaches and methods in language teaching
Batsford Academic, 1981
- pbk
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Bibliography: p. 258-264
Includes index
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Description
In this study, the author sets out to answer three fundamental questions: what is language? how do people learn languages? and how can we help them to learn languages? The implications of these questions are considered for the teachers' present needs as syllabus designers and language teachers. Then the history of language teaching over the last 100 years is examined including traditional grammar, early modern linguistics, formalism and structuralism in linguistics, and transformational-generative linguistics. It also discusses the sociolinguistic and philosophical inputs to language training needs thus identifying and clarifying the key issues underlying the enterprise. Finally there are four appendices: on job analysis and English for special purposes (a case study); on contrastive analysis and error analysis; on language testing; and an evaluation of selected language teaching materials. Dr Bell is also the author of "Sociolinguistics: goals, approaches and problems".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Syllabus design - the key issues: a few questions and several answers
- designing training programmes
- three types of language syllabus. Part 2 A century of controversy in language teaching: the turn of the century
- formalism in linguistics and its influence on language teaching
- functionalism in linguistics and its linguistic influence on language teaching
- beyond the sentence - implicatons for linguistics and language teaching. Appendices: job analysis and ESP - case study on the canteen assistant
- contrastive analysis and error analysis
- language testing
- language teaching materials.
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