This book demonstrates the extent and importance of language play in human life and draws out the implications for applied linguistics and language teaching. It stresses how language play is central to human thought and culture, learning, creativity, and intellectual development.
Analysing Learner Language (Oxford Applied Linguistics)
✍ Scribed by Rod Ellis, Gary Barkhuizen
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 210
- Series
- Oxford Applied Linguistics
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
This book provides a clear introduction to the main methods of analyzing samples of learner language by examining the theoretical and research bases for each.
✦ Subjects
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Преподавание английского языка / Teaching English as a Foreign Language;
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