A basic, reader-friendly introduction to American English linguistics for teachers of ESL, written in a conversational style with technical vocabulary introduced in meaningful contexts. Applications to the ESL classroom are presented in a direct way
"Linguistics for L2 Teachers is designed to help bilingual and ESL teachers better understand how and why the English language works, and to broaden their abilities to help their students learn about the various functions of English in the real world. It is not a complete curric…
A basic, reader-friendly introduction to American English linguistics for teachers of ESL, written in a conversational style with technical vocabulary introduced in meaningful contexts. Applications to the ESL classroom are presented in a direct way. & br.
This text provides an introduction to corpus linguistics and outlines the impact of corpus linguistics on applied linguistics, on how languages are taught in the classroom and on how it is informing language teaching materials and dictionaries.
Corpus linguistics is leading to the development of theories about language which challenge existing orthodoxies in applied linguistics. However, there are also many questions which should be examined and debated: how big should a corpus be? Is the data from a corpus reliable? W…
Corpus linguistics is leading to the development of theories about language which challenge existing orthodoxies in applied linguistics. However, there are also many questions which should be examined and debated: how big should a corpus be? Is the data from a corpus reliable? W…