Aspects of Language Teaching
Professor Widdowson provides a critical review of the most prominent issues in language teaching today - among them the relevance of theoretical enquiry to practical pedagogy, and the relationship between grammar and discourse in communicative language teaching. He relates these issues to general perspectives on the nature of language and language learning.
- Part of: Oxford Applied Linguistics
- ISBN: 978-0-19-437128-5
- RRP: £ 29.50
- Pages: 226
- Binding: Paperback
- Dimensions: 220x140 mm
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Contact your local Oxford office or distributor for information or advice on any of our materials, or to find your local ELT bookseller.Part of... Oxford Applied Linguistics
The core foundations of applied linguistics have long been located in exploring language as it is used in the world and in finding solutions to language-based problems. Modern applied linguistics is interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, being informed by research spanning psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, education, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and other areas of the cognitive, learning, and information sciences.
The goal of the OUP Applied Linguistics Series is to influence the quality of language education through publishing and disseminating relevant scholarship and research.
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The series attracts single or co-authored volumes from authors researching at the cutting edge of this dynamic field of interdisciplinary enquiry. The titles range from books that make such developments accessible to the non-specialist reader to those which explore in depth their relevance for the way language is to be conceived as a subject, and how courses and classroom activities are to be designed. As such, these books not only extend the field of applied linguistics itself and lend an additional significance to its enquiries, but also provide an indispensable professional foundation for language pedagogy and its practice.
The scope of the series includes:- second language acquisition
- bilingualism and multi/plurilingualism
- language pedagogy and teacher education
- testing and assessment
- language planning and policy
- language internationalization
- technology-mediated communication
- discourse-, conversation-, and contrastive-analysis
- pragmatics
- stylistics
- lexicography
- translation
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Acknowledgements
Preface
PART ONE: The theory and practice of language teaching
1 Introduction
2 Problems with solutions
3 The pragmatics of language teaching
4 Pedagogic research and teacher education
PART TWO: Aspects of language
5 Preliminaries: approaches to description
6 Grammar, and nonsense, and learning
7 The negotiation of meaning
PART THREE: Aspects of teaching
8 General perspectives on pedagogy
9 The problems and principles of syllabus design
10 Methodology for the teaching of meaning
11 The roles of teacher and learner
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
