Describing and explaining grammar and vocabulary in ELT key theories and effective practice
"Language description plays an important role in language learning/teaching because it often determines what specific language forms, features, and usages are taught and how. A good understanding of language description is vital for language teachers and material writers and should constitute a...
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New York, NY
Routledge
2014
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| Series: | SL and applied linguistics professional series
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Table of Contents:
- Language Description: Purview, Importance, and Principles.
- Part I: Foundations: Key theories and approaches to language description. Prescriptive, Structural, and Generative Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics ; Cognitive Linguistics ; Corpus Linguistics.
- Part II: Putting Theory to Practice: Striving for Enhanced Language. Vocabulary Description: Basics, Parts of Speech, and Other Challenging Issues ; Sentence Structure Description: Basics, Verb Structure/ Subcategorization, and Other Challenging Structural Issues ; Tense and Aspect ; Articles ; Prepositions, Prepositional Adjectives/Adverbs, and Particles ; Structural Alternation: English Object Placement, Subject/Object Deletion, and the Passive voice ; Word Meaning and Usage: Polysemy, Synonymy, Culturally- Loaded Words, and Register ; Word Collocations ; Multi-Word Expressions: Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, and Formulae/ Lexical Bundles