Language Teaching - Integrational Linguistic Approaches (Hardcover)

Language Teaching demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics' shunning of both realist and structuralist theories of language, its commitment to an unwavering attention to the perspective of the language user, and its adherence to a semiology in which signs are the situated products of interactants interpretive behaviour, mean that it radically reconceptualizes language learning and language teaching. Detractors have implied that IL is so 'philosophical' or 'theoretical' an exercise that it has no useful bearing on the practical problems of language learning. These papers refute that misconception. They do so by demonstrating how an IL stance can help disentangle the conflicting considerations and contradictory assumptions that arise in a host of language teaching situations: first, second- and foreign-language classrooms in a diversity of settings (including India, Australia, the United States, and Hong Kong), with different age-groups of students, whether the focus is on speech or writing, and in more informal settings also.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	2009
Editors:	Michael Toolan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-95753-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching theory & methods
LSN:	0-415-95753-2
Barcode:	9780415957533

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