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ISBN: 9781909783225
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Lexical Grammar
Author: Leo SelivanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316644751
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is for anyone is interested in the relationship between grammar and vocabulary. The introduction looks at recent developments in corpus linguistics and second language acquisition research, and outlines the important role which chunks play in textual cohesion and in fluency, as well as in grammar acquisition. The practical part of the book provides practitioners with a large number of classroom suggestions and activities for making grammar teaching more lexical, and for making vocabulary practice more grammatical. Activities move from receptive to productive and can be used on their own or to supplement and enhance coursebook content.
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
Author: Jack C. RichardsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521803659
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In addition to the approaches and methods covered in the first edition, this edition includes new chapters, such as whole language, multiple intelligences, neurolinguistic programming, competency-based language teaching, co-operative language learning, content-based instruction, task-based language teaching, and The Post-Methods Era.
Author: Michael LewisLexical Phrases and Language Teaching
Author: James R. NattingerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194371643
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Presents a language teaching programme based on the use of 'prefabricated language'. The authors show that the unit of language they term the 'lexical phrase' can serve as an effective basis, for both second and foreign language learning.
Lexical Analysis
Author: Patrick HanksPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262312867
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of norms. In Lexical Analysis, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, Hanks writes, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpora, the Internet) and the development of new methods of statistical analysis and inferencing. Hanks offers a new theory of language, the Theory of Norms and Exploitations (TNE), which makes a systematic distinction between normal and abnormal usage—between rules for using words normally and rules for exploiting such norms in metaphor and other creative use of language. Using hundreds of carefully chosen citations from corpora and other texts, he shows how matching each use of a word against established contextual patterns plays a large part in determining the meaning of an utterance. His goal is to develop a coherent and practical lexically driven theory of language that takes into account the immense variability of everyday usage and that shows that this variability is rule governed rather than random. Such a theory will complement other theoretical approaches to language, including cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, generative lexicon theory, priming theory, and pattern grammar.
Grammar Nonsense and What To Do about It
Author: Hugh DellarPublisher: Wayzgoose Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Do you hate teaching some aspects of grammar? Do you ever feel frustrated that your students just don’t get it? Well, in Grammar Nonsense, Andrew Walkley and Hugh Dellar argue that you shouldn’t really blame yourself. The fault lies largely with the way grammar rules and methods have been passed down through training and published material and become established as the way of doing things: a straightjacket that we need to escape from. Through an entertaining series of rants and meditations on all things grammatical, from the use of the word grammar to the horror of teaching verb patterns, they aim to pull apart rules which we give without thinking and to question approaches to practice that are seen as a must. Along the way, you’ll not only learn how published materials get written and about ideas such as the transformation fallacy and grammar olives, but you’ll also get plenty of practical suggestions as to what to do about all this nonsense.
Teaching Unplugged
Author: Luke MeddingsPublisher: Delta Publishing Company(IL)
ISBN: 9781905085194
Category : English language
Languages : de
Pages : 0
Book Description
Teaching Unplugged beschäftigt sich mit Unterricht, der seinen Antrieb aus der Konversation erhält, dabei wenig Material verwendet und auf dem Anwenden der Sprache beruht. Der Band ist in drei Bereiche gegliedert: Auf einen kurz und bündig formulierten Theorieteil, der die Hintergründe des Teaching Unplugged erklärt, folgt ein ausführlicher Pool an unmittelbar einsetzbaren Aktivitäten für die Niveaus A1 - C1. Im abschließenden Teil wird die Anwendung dieses Lehransatzes in unterschiedlichen Lernergruppen und Lehrumgebungen diskutiert.
Translation and Own-language Activities
Author: Philip KerrPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107645786
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Translation and Own-language Activities provides structured, practical advice and guidance for using students' own languages within the ELT classroom. Translation and Own-language Activities provides structured, practical advice and guidance for using students' own languages within ELT classrooms. Taking into account both the growing interest and concerns about use of translation in English lessons, the book presents effective ways of integrating carefully chosen activities, covering themes such as tools, language skills, language focus and techniques. The practical activities range from using bilingual dictionaries to translating long texts, with a number of tasks drawing on easy-to-use web tools. The book also considers the relationship between translation and intercultural understanding.
The Lexical Syllabus
Author: Dave WillisPublisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780003702842
Category : Basic English
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Describes a new approach to language learning and teaching. Derived from the COBUILD project, the syllabus has been shaped by extensive evidence of what is important in modern English. It documents the useful words and patterns of the language, providing insight into language use.
