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Introduction to Applied Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

Introduction to Applied Linguistics

This second edition of the foundational textbook An Introduction to Applied Linguistics provides a state-of-the-art account of contemporary applied linguistics. The kinds of language problems of interest to applied linguists are discussed and a distinction drawn between the different research approach taken by theoretical linguists and by applied linguists to what seem to be the same problems. Professor Davies describes a variety of projects which illustrate the interests of the field and highlight the marriage it offers between practical experience and theoretical understanding. The increasing emphasis of applied linguistics on ethicality is linked to the growth of professionalism and to the concern for accountability, manifested in the widening emphasis on critical stances. This, Davies argues, is at its most acute in the tension between giving advice as the outcome of research and taking political action in order to change a situation which, it is claimed, needs ameliorisation. This dilemma is not confined to applied linguistics and may now be endemic in the applied disciplines.

Language Planning and Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Language Planning and Education

Language Planning is a resurgent academic discipline, reflecting the importance of language in issues of migration, globalisation, cultural diversity, nation-building, education and ethnic identity. Written as an advanced introduction, this book engages with all these themes but focuses specifically on language planning as it relates to education, addressing such issues as bilingualism and the education of linguistic minority pupils in North America and Europe, the educational and equity implications of the global spread of English, and the choice of media of instruction in post-colonial societies. Contextualising this discussion, the first two chapters describe the emergence and evolution of language planning as an academic discipline, and introduce key concepts in the practice of language planning. The book is wide-ranging in its coverage, with detailed discussion of the context of language policy in a variety of countries and communities across North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Linguistics and the Language of Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Linguistics and the Language of Translation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This text examines the relationship between the areas of translation, languages and linguistics. It includes sounds and rhythms, lexis, collocation and semantic prosody, texture, register, cohesion, coherence, implicature, speech and text acts, text and genre analysis, clausal thematicity and transitivity and the expression through language choices of ideological postions.

The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book is written for applied linguists and students on applied linguistics courses, who are familiar with recent developments in the field of SLA.

Materials Evaluation and Design for Language Teaching
  • Language: en

Materials Evaluation and Design for Language Teaching

Providing integrated and wide-ranging coverage of the topic, this is the ideal book for those studying or practising language teaching or applied linguistics.

Teaching Literature in a Second Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Teaching Literature in a Second Language

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book focuses on the relationship of language and literature in the context of the classroom. It examines both the language of literature as it occurs in a variety of texts from different genres and the language of the classroom as teachers and learners respond in speech and writing to those texts.

Language and Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 181

Language and Politics

Language, this book argues, is political from top to bottom, whether considered at the level of an individual speaker's choice of language or style of discourse with others (where interpersonal politics are performed), or at the level of political rhetoric, or indeed all the way up to the formation of national languages. By bringing together this set of topics and highlighting how they are interrelated, the book will function well as a textbook on any applied or sociolinguistic course in which some or all of these various aspects of the politics of language are covered.

An Introduction to Applied Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

An Introduction to Applied Linguistics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Corpus Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Corpus Linguistics

Corpus Linguistics has quickly established itself as the leading undergraduate course book in the subject. This second edition takes full account of the latest developments in the rapidly changing field, making this the most up-to-date and comprehensive textbook available. It gives a step-by-step introduction to what a corpus is, how corpora are constructed, and what can be done with them. Each chapter ends with a section of study questions that contain practical corpus-based exercises.* Designed for student use, with all technical terms explained in the text and referenced further in a Glossary* Examples are taken from existing corpora; detailed case study chapter included* Contains end-of-...

Classroom Discourse and Teacher Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Classroom Discourse and Teacher Development

This textbook shows how classroom discourse can be applied to develop and improve teaching. Combining examples from everyday practice with theoretical approaches, it provides a comprehensive account of current perspectives on classroom discourse.