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Through clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive
practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar
Dimensions provides students with the language skills they need to
communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.
A must-read for every language teaching professional, TEACHING
LANGUAGE: FROM GRAMMAR TO GRAMMARING explores the regular,
predictable elements of language as well as the potential
creativity of its underlying system. By combining a wide range of
view points with her own personal experiences and studies, Diane
Larsen-Freeman challenges the static descriptive ideas of grammar,
based on rules, and promotes the more fluid and dynamic notions of
reason-driven grammaring, which she defines as "the ability to use
grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately."
The reader is left not with an encyclopedic set of definitions, but
rather with a deeper understanding of the organic nature of
language and its acquisition, and a honed set of tools with which
to approach language in language teaching.
Understanding how people learn and fail to learn second and foreign
languages is increasingly recognised as a critical social and
psycholinguistic issue. Second languages are vitally important to
diverse groups of people, ranging from refugees to college students
facing foreign language requirements. This book provides a
synthesis of empirical findings on second and foreign language
learning by children and adults, emphasising the design and
execution of appropriate research.
The Grammar Book introduces teachers and future teachers to English
grammatical constructions. This highly acclaimed text, used both as
a course book and as a grammar reference guide, is suitable for all
teachers of English. What sets it apart from other grammar books is
its unique pedagogical focus: It describes not only how each
grammatical construction is formed, but also its meaning and its
use. Grammar is seen to be a resource for making meaning in
textually and socially appropriate ways.
This book provides a synthesis of empirical findings on second and foreign language learning by children and adults, emphasizing the design and execution of appropriate research.
Through clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive
practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar
Dimensions provides students with the language skills they need to
communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.
Through clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive
practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar
Dimensions provides students with the language skills they need to
communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.
This book contains thought-provoking essays on teaching and
learning:
- Who is in charge of lesson plans and of organizing classroom
activities?
- Who places students in classes?
- Who selects the books and the tests?
- How are students evaluated, and who determines this?
- What weight does teacher opinion have in decisions about student
progress in school?
Teachers "should "have the final say in all of these cases, and
their opinion "should "weigh heavily in all of them, yet this is
not the reality for today's teachers. Current educational practices
driven by a confluence of social and political issues, including
testing policies, seem to be influencing teaching and learning more
than teachers themselves. The essays in this book consider many
serious issues facing today's teachers and urge teachers to seek
common ground with others in the field of education. The book also
urges teachers to become reflective practitioners, seeing
themselves as theorists, philosophers, action researchers, and
political activists.
"Common Ground, Contested Territory "is an inspiring book for all
teachers.
Through clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive
practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar
Dimensions provides students with the language skills they need to
communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.
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