Applied Linguistics in Language Education (Paperback, Reissue)

This title covers those areas of applied language study that are most directly relevant to language teaching, testing and teacher education. It focuses on the fundamental questions raised for research by the practice of language teaching and research. The reader is thus introduced to the contemporary research climate through consideration of germane controversial issues. If any conclusion about applied linguistic research since the 1980s is possible, it is that we can not take anything for granted. This text opens with examples of language teaching, teaching materials and learning a foreign language, which teachers and language readers will recognise, drawing out questions from these which are addressed throughout the rest of the text. Arguments and data from research of all kinds are brought to bear on these and other background issues that are raised, for example: the nature and effects of classroom discourse; the challenges and utility of linguistic theory and linguistic descriptions; what knowing a second language means for proficiency and for processing; nature and nurture in second language learning; how people process language in classrooms and beyond; the role of instructio

General

Imprint:	Hodder Arnold
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Steven McDonough
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-340-70622-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching theory & methods
LSN:	0-340-70622-8
Barcode:	9780340706220

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