Language Teaching: Linguistic Theory in Practice

✍ Scribed by Melinda Whong

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When it comes to language studies where do theory and practice meet? Written by Melinda Whong, an experienced ELT lecturer, this textbook is the first to provide a linguistics-based perspective on language teaching.The text offers a brief historical survey on the ways in which language has been viewed and highlights the implications of these perspectives for language teaching. Current linguistic approaches are described -- formal, functional and cognitive -- and how these perspectives translate into classroom practice. (11/1/11)

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
1 – INTRODUCTION......Page 10
2 – HISTORICAL OVERVIEW – LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE TEACHING......Page 32
3 – LANGUAGE AS A BIOLOGICAL PROPERTY......Page 50
4 – LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR COMMUNICATION......Page 77
5 – IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING......Page 104
6 – APPROACHES TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING......Page 130
7 – PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE......Page 151
8 – PRACTICE AND PRACTICES – RESPONDING TO STUDENT NEEDS......Page 173
GLOSSARY......Page 190
REFERENCES......Page 204
INDEX......Page 218