Applied Linguistics

Leading authors in the field of applied linguistics share their thinking and research in different areas of study. Many have won prestigious awards for their writing.

Inside Applied Linguistics (54)

Second Language Acquisition

Rod Ellis

This book outlines the study of how people learn a language other than their mother tongue. It is designed to make the essentials of this rapidly expanding field as accessible as possible.

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Language Testing in Practice

Designing and Developing Useful Language Tests

Lyle F. Bachman and Adrian S. Palmer

The practice of testing is related here to views on communicative language teaching and testing. The book is divided into three sections: "Conceptual Bases on Language Testing," "Designing and Constructing Useful Language Tests," and "Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Information from Language Tests."

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Linguistics

H. G. Widdowson

This book surveys the discipline of linguistics, the study of human language. An outline of the ways in which language has been defined, described, and explored is provided, and readers are guided towards further exploration.

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Pragmatics

George Yule

This book outlines pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. Basic concepts such as the cooperative principle, deixis, and speech acts are explained and illustrated, providing readers with an ideal foundation for further study.

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Principle and Practice in Applied Linguistics

Studies in Honour of H. G. Widdowson

Guy Cook and Barbara Seidlhofer

This book provides an overview of the diverse issues in applied linguistics today. Leading specialists consider the relation of their own areas of inquiry both to professional practice and to the discipline as a whole.

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Context and Culture in Language Teaching

Claire Kramsch

This book focuses attention on cultural knowledge not just as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right-as an end, as well as a means, of language learning.

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Lexical Phrases and Language Teaching

James R. Nattinger and Jeanette S. DeCarrico

This book draws on research in presenting a language teaching program based on the use of "prefabricated language." It shows that the "lexical phrase" can serve as an effective basis for learning English.

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Practical Stylistics

An Approach to Poetry

H. G. Widdowson

This book argues that a particular perspective on poetry leads to a recognition of its essential role in education, and provides a set of principles for an approach to teaching poetry that integrates the study of language and literature.

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Linguistic Imperialism

Robert Phillipson

This book explores English as an international language, and how and why it has become so dominant.

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Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing

Lyle F. Bachman

This book covers the nature of measurement, the context that determines the uses of language tests, and the nature of the language abilities to be measured.

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